Sustaining life : AIDS activism in South Africa
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Sustaining life : AIDS activism in South Africa
(Pennsylvania studies in human rights)
University of Pennsylvania Press, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-227) and index
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Description
An ethnographic account of the South African AIDS movement and activists
From the historical roots of AIDS activism in the struggle for African liberation to the everyday work of community education in Khayelitsha, Sustaining Life tells the story of how the rights-based South African AIDS movement successfully transformed public health institutions, enabled access to HIV/AIDS treatment, and sustained the lives of people living with the disease. Typical accounts of the South African epidemic have focused on the political conflict surrounding it, Theodore Powers observes, but have yet to examine the process by which the national HIV/AIDS treatment program achieved near-universal access.
In Sustaining Life, Powers demonstrates the ways in which non-state actors, from caregivers to activists, worked within the state to transform policy and state-based institutions in order to improve health-based outcomes. He shows how advocates in the South African AIDS movement channeled the everyday experiences of poor and working-class people living with HIV/AIDS into tangible policy changes at varying institutional levels, revealing the primacy of local action for expanding treatment access. In his analysis of the transformation of the state health system, Powers addresses three key questions: How were the activists of the movement able to overcome an AIDS-dissident faction that was backed by government power? How were state health institutions and HIV/AIDS policy transformed to increase public sector access to treatment? Finally, how should the South African campaign for treatment access inform academic debates on social movements, transnationalism, and the state?
Based on extended participant observation and in-depth interviews with members of the South African AIDS movement, Sustaining Life traces how the political principles of the anti-apartheid movement were leveraged to build a broad coalition that changed national HIV/AIDS policy norms and highlights how changes in state-society relations can be produced by local activism.
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. People, Pathogens, and Power: Situating the South African HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Chapter 1. Contact, Colonization, and Apartheid: South African Social Formations in Historical Perspective
Chapter 2. The Political History of South African HIV/AIDS Activism
Chapter 3. Occupying the State: HIV/AIDS Activism and the South African National AIDS Council
Chapter 4. A Policy Redirected: Transnational Donor Capital and Treatment Access in the Western Cape Province
Chapter 5. Community Health Activism, AIDS Dissidence, and Local HIV/AIDS Politics in Khayelitsha
Chapter 6. People in the State: Activism, Access, and Transformation
Afterword. After Treatment Access: An Epidemic Unresolved
Notes
References
Index
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