Curing lives : surviving the HIV epidemic in Ethiopia / Nishi Makoto.
Makoto, Nishi.
2023
RA643.86.E8 M35 2023
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Title Curing lives : surviving the HIV epidemic in Ethiopia / Nishi Makoto.
Author Makoto, Nishi.
ISBN 9789819918317 electronic book
9819918316 electronic book
9819918308
9789819918300
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-1831-7
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-981-99-1831-7 doi
Call Number RA643.86.E8 M35 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 614.5/99392
Summary This is a book about life during the HIV epidemic in Ethiopia, and seeks to understand how and why the global effort to achieve universal HIV treatment has shifted away from its initial focus on the excessive human suffering precipitated by the epidemic. When antiretroviral drugs became available in Ethiopia, they emerged as powerful agents of change: not only did they cure individuals, they also helped people overcome their fear of and break the silence around AIDS, while healing the social ruptures caused by the epidemic. Nevertheless, as this book argues, the very same agents have silently reversed these changes over the course of the past decade. These reversals have dissolved connections, re-incurred invisible social fissures, and allowed a large majority of people to stay indifferent to the suffering of individuals whose lives remain vulnerable under the current treatment regime. This whole process is a product of neoliberal global health interventions that determine which lives are worthy or unworthy of investment. This book will interest scholars of biopolitics and public health, those who study the developing world, and those interested in how pandemic interventions alter the lives of many. Makoto Nishi is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University. His current research projects focus on the care environment for families affected by some neurological conditions, including parasite-induced epilepsy in post-conflict northern Uganda and autism during Covid time in neoliberal Japan.
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Intro
Preface
References
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction
Pharmaceuticalization of HIV Care
Africa as a Site for Experimentations
Curing Lives
Outline of the Book
Notes on the Author's Research in Ethiopia
Notes
References
2 Initiating a New Experimentation
Tripping into Anarchy
Altering Institutional Arrangements
Notes
References
3 Installation of a Health System
Transformation of a Health System
A Mathematical Model
Defunding of Non-Pharmaceutical Care
Continuity in the Global Health Governance

Change and Continuity
Notes
References
4 In Search of a Cure
Diagnosis
Prologue
Entoto
Connections
Detachment
Notes
References
5 Life
Multiple Burdens
Indifference
Care and Alienation
Notes
References
6 Ajyet and Jegna
The Fight Against AIDS
The Caring Woman
The Premarital Screening Campaign
Cultivate the Backyard of Your Neighbor
Gendered Norms and Division of Labor
YeKake Werdwet
Notes
References
7 Culture of Defiance
A Traditional Birth Attendant
Visiting House to House
Asha's Mother
Life at the Margins

Meseret's Early Life
Cure and Defiance
Notes
References
Conclusion
References
Index

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