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.
Author(s): Makoto Nishi
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 178
City: Singapore
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
