Fault Lines of Care

Autorentext

CARINA HECKERT is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Klappentext

The HIV epidemic in Bolivia has received little attention on a global scale in light of the country's low HIV prevalence rate. However, by profiling the largest city in this land-locked Latin American country, Carina Heckert shows how global health-funded HIV care programs at times clash with local realities, which can have catastrophic effects for people living with HIV.

Zusammenfassung
Heckert provides a detailed examination of the effects of global health and governmental policy decisions on the everyday lives of people living with HIV in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She focuses on the gendered dynamics that play a role in the development and implementation of HIV care programs and shows how decisions made from above impact what happens on the ground. Â

Inhalt

1. Fault Lines
2. Decolonizing Bolivia
3. When Care is a “Systematic Route of Torture”
4. Aiding Women
5. Synergistic Silences
6. Blaming Machismo
7. The Biopolitical Drama of HIV Funding
8. Decolonizing Global Health
   Bibliography
   Notes
   Index
   Acknowledgments