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Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities by Dominik Mattes

Fierce Medicines, Fragile Socialities

Grounding Global HIV Treatment in Tanzania

Dominik Mattes

Berghahn Books · Print & ebook · October 13, 2023

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.

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Ethnographic account of ART provision and life with HIV in Tanga.
Genres
How Cultures Work, HIV & AIDS, African Studies
Published
Berghahn Books, October 13, 2023

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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.

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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”.

Tanga’s HIV Clinics

Ethnographic account of ART provision and life with HIV in Tanga.

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  • Infrastructural and social fragilities in public HIV clinics
  • Patients’ everyday struggles to come to terms with ART

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  • Social, economic, and moral challenges
  • Long-term uncertainties beyond the rhetoric of HIV normalization

Where it sits

How Cultures Work47%
HIV & AIDS44%
African Studies34%

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Publisher categories

  • HIV & AIDS
  • Public Health
  • How Cultures Work
Authors
Dominik Mattes
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Published
October 13, 2023
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
HIV & AIDS