Main description:

Set in Tanga, a city on the Tanzanian Swahili coast, Dominik Mattes examines the implementation of antiretroviral HIV-treatment (ART) in the area, exploring the manifold infrastructural and social fragilities of treatment provision in public HIV clinics as well as patients' multi-layered struggles of coming to terms with ART in their everyday lives. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the book shows that, notwithstanding the massive rollout of ART, providing treatment and living a life with HIV in settings like Tanga continue to entail social, economic, and moral challenges and long-term uncertainties, which contradict the global rhetoric of the "normalization of HIV".

Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Exploring ART in Tanga
Chapter 2. Antiretroviral Treatment as a Global Mobile Force
Chapter 3. Translating Global Technology into Local Health Care Practice
Chapter 4. Generating Treatment Adherence: Neoliberal Patient Subjectivities, Biomedical Truth Claims, and Institutional Micropolitics
Chapter 5. Diverging Trajectories of Reconstitution: Living with ARVs and the Pursuit of 'Normalcy'
Chapter 6. Cohesion and Conflict: Living a Social Live on ARVs within Kin-Based Networks of Solidarity
Chapter 7. HIV (Self-)Support Groups: Competition, Bureaucracy, and the Limitations of Biosociality
Chapter 8. The Blood of Jesus, Witchcraft, and CD4 Counts: HIV/AIDS and ART in the Context of Traditional and Religious Healing

Conclusion

References
Index