Treatment: Claims and Cautions -- Treatment's Grey Areas -- Synopsis of Chapters -- The Struggle to Access Treatment and Other Services in South Africa -- Conceptualizing "Access" to Medication -- An Unnatural Place: Temba Hammanskraal -- Gambling on Treatment: Governing ARV Programmes -- Social Acceptability: Stigma, Social Attitudes, and the ARV Information Gap -- Cultural Acceptability: Traditional and Alternative Medication (and Spiritual Beliefs) -- Accessing Treatment: Socioeconomic Issues and Clinic Criteria -- Conclusion: Towards Treatment, Rights, and Accountability
Summary
The global AIDS epidemic has challenged states and societies in profound ways. The era of treatment now represents the hopes of millions of people living with HIV/AIDS. But it also poses significant challenges. How treatment programs interact with the underlying context of the epidemic and human rights approaches that define global responses is a critical area for enquiry. In this important book, Jones looks at the difficulties in delivering treatment in a political, cultural and socio-economic context. Why, for example, might people not necessarily want to take antiretroviral treatment? AIDS Treatment and Human Rights in Context explores some of these paradoxes in a case study from a local community setting in South Africa
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-192) and index
