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Title The politics of adherence to antiretroviral therapy: between ancestral conflicts and drug resistance
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/10451/45918
Date 2020
Author(s) Cancelliere, Francesca
Abstract This article investigates the implementation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Maputo, Mozambique. Firstly, the author examines the enrolment procedures of medical professionals in health centres, which are intended to 'produce' adherent patients. Secondly, through the exemplary case study of Joana, a young patient and her family, the author explores the zone of social abandonment (Biehl 2007) where vulnerable subjects become trapped, leaving little hope for adherence to therapy or other survival strategies. The author argues that the shortage of infrastructure, as well as other social forces, clash with the emergence of so-called 'therapeutic citizenships' analyzed from other anthropological studies since the introduction of ART (Nguyen 2010). Caught between the shortcomings of the health system and a violent family context, Joana's body became a battleground for ancestral conflicts and a stark illustration of medical failure - info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Subject(s) HIV/AIDS; health facilities; Mozambique
Language eng
Publisher [Published by] Antonio L. Palmisano
Relation http://www.dadarivista.com/DadaRivista-Download-Speciale-n2-2020.html
Type of publication article
Rights openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Identifier Cancelliere F. (2020). The politics of adherence to antiretroviral therapy: between ancestral conflicts and drug resistance. Dada Rivista di Antropologia post-globale, speciale n. 2, Corpo, potere, diritti, 13-41.
Repository Lissabon - University of Lissabon
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