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Title: Mistreated
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Political Consequences of the Fight against AIDS in Lesotho
EAN: 9780826521545
ISBN: 9780826521545
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 30/09/2017
Description: As global health institutions and aid donors expanded HIV treatment throughout Africa, they rapidly ""scaled up"" programs, projects, and organizations meant to address HIV and AIDS. Yet these efforts did not simply have biological effects: in addition to extending lives and preventing further infections, treatment scale-up initiated remarkable political and social shifts.

In Lesotho, which has the world's second highest HIV prevalence, HIV treatment has had unintentional but pervasive political costs, distancing citizens from the government, fostering distrust of health programs, and disrupting the social contract. Based on ethnographic observation between 2008 and 2014, this book chillingly anticipates the political violence and instability that swept through Lesotho in 2014.

This book is a recipient of the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of medicine.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 500g
Author: Nora Kenworthy
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Medicine
Item Width: 22mm
Release Year: 2017

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