Acknowledgments; Note on Terminology; Abbreviations; Introduction: Postcolonial Paradox; 1. The Struggle for Life in South Africa's Slums; 2. A State in Denial; 3. Biomedical Citizenship; 4. The Politicization of Sexuality; 5. Hybridity; Coda: Life Strategies; Notes; Glossary; References; Index
Summary
In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continent. At the same time, South Africa experiences extremely unequal income distribution, and its citizens suffer the highest prevalence of HIV in the world. As Archbishop Desmond Tutu has noted, "AIDS is South Africa's new apartheid." In Ancestors and Antiretrovirals, Claire Laurier Decoteau backs up Tutu's assertion with powerful a
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Includes bibliographical references references (pages 277-312) and index
