Living with HIV and ARVs [electronic resource] : Three-Letter Lives /
Squire, C.author.
This book explores the possibilities and difficulties of living with HIV and ARVs, or antiretroviral treatment, today. It draws on HIV-positive people's stories from both the UK and the South African epidemics and offers a deep understanding of the continuing difficulties of living with HIV and the effective strategies for coping that have evolved.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title ; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Living with HIV and ARVs in the Treatment Possibility Era; 1 Why the Three Letters Matter; 2 From HIV's Exceptionalism to HIV's Particularity; 2 Being Naturalised, Being Left Behind; 3 Being Naturalised; 4 When the Drugs Do Work: The Medicalised HIV Citizen; 5 A Long-term Condition: HIV's Normalisation; 6 Investing in the Pandemic: The Marketised HIV Citizen; 7 Being Left Behind; 3 Living on and Living with HIV and ARVs: The Particularities of  Epidemics; 8 Living on: Three-letter Lives in the United Kingdom
9 Living with HIV: Three-letter Lives in South Africa10 Hopeful Futures, Inertial Histories and the Complex Present; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explores the possibilities and difficulties of living with HIV and ARVs, or antiretroviral treatment, today. It draws on HIV-positive people's stories from both the UK and the South African epidemics and offers a deep understanding of the continuing difficulties of living with HIV and the effective strategies for coping that have evolved.
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