Fault Lines of Care

Gender, Hiv, and Global Health in Bolivia
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8135-8690-8
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 226 mm x 159 mm, Gewicht: 286 g

Reihe: Medical Anthropology

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 who must rely on global health resources to survive. These ethnographic insights, as a result, can be applied to AIDS programs across the globe.
 
In Fault Lines of Care, 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. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heckert, Carina

Über Autor(innen)

Carina Heckert is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso.