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Unimagined Community: Sex, Networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa. Robert J. Thornton.
University of California Press, 2008.
On the morning of November 5th, I dragged myself to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in a state of exhausted euphoria. One of my colleagues had asked during the first week of term if I wouldn’t mind examining …
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The Society for Applied Anthropology has begun posting podcasts of selected sessions from the 2009 conference; they include one which may be of particular interest to our readers: “Studies of HIV and STIs in the Western Hemisphere.” The session is divided into two parts, available here and here.
Here’s the abstract for the session:
…Patient Narratives on
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The latest issue of Social Theory and Health is devoted to HIV/AIDS. Here’s an excerpt from guest editors Eric Mykhalovskiy and Marsha Rosengarten’s introduction to the issue:
…“As HIV/AIDS nears three decades of response and intervention, theoretically engaged scholarly commentary on the topic is on the wane. We make that judgment with care, wary of the dangers of nostalgia and
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The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) recently set up a new blog site called “The Fourth Wave: Violence, Gender, Culture & HIV in the 21st Century.” The site is a counterpart to a forthcoming book edited by Jennifer F. Klot and Vinh-Kim Nguyen, and it makes the chapters of that book publicly-available free-of-charge. In addition to pdf …
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Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin and AIDS in Southwest China
Shao-hua Li
Stanford University Press, 2010. 248 pp., US$ 22.95 (paperback).
Reviewed by Nicholas Bartlett, University of California-San Francisco
Shao-hua Liu’s Passage to Manhood: Youth Migration, Heroin and AIDS in Southwest China chronicles the tragic consequences of the efforts of Nuosu youth to improve their lives during the …
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| Tallying the numbers tested, the numbers saved, and the numbers cared for. |
This post was contributed by Ippolytos Kalofonos (University of Washington)
Introduction
The global effort to expand the provision of antiretroviral treatment in low and middle-income countries initiated in the early part of this decade represents the largest collective medical intervention in history. It has been funded by many …
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Recently two important journals have released special issues on closely related topics. A special issue of Biosocieties on “The global health complex” examines the “growing role of pharmaceutical corporations and philanthropic organizations in fight against ‘diseases of the poor’; and a special issue of Medical Anthropology focuses on “Global AIDS Medicines in East African Health Institutions.” …
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Death in a Church of Life: Moral Passion during Botswana’s Time of AIDS. By Frederick Klaits. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010. Pp. 368. Paperback US$ 29.95 ISBN 9780520259669.
Review by Betsey Brada (University of Chicago)
Home to one of the world’s highest HIV prevalence rates, the southern African Republic of Botswana has drawn increasing attention over the …
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Jarrett Zigon. “HIV Is God’s Blessing”: Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. 280 pages. $24.95.
Reviewed by Tomas Matza (Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University)
Anthropologists have taken a keen interest in the way that the collapse of the Soviet Union has impacted the everyday lives of the people living in that region. The fact …
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The Republic of Therapy: Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS.
By Vinh-Kim Nguyen.
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.
Pp. 256. ISBN 9780822348740. (Paperback, US $ 22.95)
Reviewed by Betsey Brada (Princeton University)
In The Republic of Therapy, Vinh-Kim Nguyen traces responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Francophone West Africa between 1994, when effective …
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“The number of HIV-infected Russians will grow in the next few years, but helping them will become a lot more difficult…” was the introductory line in a front page article in Moskovskie Novosti on December 1, 2011 (World AIDS Day). According to the article, as of 2012, the Russian government will be the sole financier of HIV-prevention programs, which have …
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Announcements on Transcriptions will list information, events, and opportunities related to HIV and global health. This will include relevant conferences, calls for papers, seminars, book launches, funding opportunities and other pertinent events.
If you’d like to bring events/opportunities to our attention that you think should be distributed through posting on this site, please contact us at transcriptions@somatosphere.net.
Announcements Editor: …
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In the Journals will provide a summary and links to journal articles published in the last month that have a bearing on global health and HIV. We’ll be collecting and aggregating articles and collections from several different disciplines in order to cut down some of the disciplinary divides that keep good insights from cross-pollinating, and to bring concepts and issues …
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As bards of the Broadsheets, we reinvigorate the way newspapers offered dimensions to lay out societal trends. As such, the aim of this section is to re-draw and attend to the ways in which web content proliferates and thereby makes meaningful the priorities and directions within the HIV/AIDS-related field and global health more broadly. Our efforts intend to develop …
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On the Shelves will feature contributors’ reviews of new (or, when relevant, not-so-new) books focused on HIV/AIDS and global health, as well as other volumes broadly relevant to Transcriptions’ purpose. We’re interested in reviews of books that run the gamut — across disciplines and fields, from the empirical to the theoretical, and whether academic or popular.
If you’ve read (or …
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The study of HIV/AIDS as a medical and social issue poses significant methodological and ethical questions. The sensitivity and complexity of the subject matter has the potential to produce innovative methodologies across, between and beyond the sciences. The Methodologies series is a space for reflecting on experiences in the field, thinking about research, practice and advocacy, and considering how knowledge …
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Concepts are the tools of our trade, enabling us to analytically capture a situation, bring new insights to it, and rethink the frame within which a problem has been articulated. For this reason, concepts may be considered to have a performative function, shaping not only what comes to be known but also the nature of intervention this knowledge generates. In …
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In the Infected Affects series, we would like to bring together as wide a range of contributors as possible to give voice to the aporia surrounding the emotional life/lives of those living with HIV, and the emotions of those studying the epidemic and the effect(s) of their encounters with suffering on their work (inter alia, denial, elision, incoherence, depth and …
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Engaging perspectives on global health and HIV/AIDS research from across social science, biomedicine, and related disciplines, Dialogues aims to bring scholars, researchers, authors, activists, and students into conversation with one another and with their audiences. Our aims with this forum are multiple. First, we seek to create a space in which authors can reflect in an open-ended and conversational way …
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The field of HIV/AIDS and global health is in a constant process of emergence. Indeed, it is impossible to conceive of it as a uniform whole: it consists of multiple fields and dynamics that connect only partially – and often unpredictably – to each other. Given the pace of scientific developments and the diversity of local experiences of disease, the …
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Somatosphere is happy to announce Transcriptions, a new online forum on the critical intersections of HIV/AIDS, global health, and the social sciences. Transcriptions seeks to trace evolving developments in HIV science and global health programs; connect social scientists, scholars in the humanities, and biomedical and public health researchers; and encourage critical engagement with methodological, ethical, and philosophical questions on …
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Broadsheets Summaries – April 15-May 11 2012
Welcome to Broadsheets! Here you will find “cut and clip” summaries of the HIV/AIDS-related news moving quickly through the web-o-sphere. The first posts will track the news making its way through virtual reportage space. Later, we will contribute critical commentary about the news-making process and how it shapes the framing of, and responses …
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Social and Political Science Pre-Conference:
Ensuring a Supportive Environment for an Effective Long-Term HIV Response: Social and Political Challenges
19th – 20th July, Washington DC, US
The objectives of the Social and Political Science Pre-conference include:
– To review research on the relationship between HIV programmes and other global health and development programmes;
– To review research on …
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CALL FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS
Global Development Network
The Global Development Network invites researchers from developing and transition countries to submit proposals for the 2012 Global Research Competition. The themes in 2012—which is the pilot year of this program – include Education & Gender, Food Security and Political Economic & Social Transformations. The research competition is inter-regional and multi-disciplinary. …
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Introduction
In the interests of bringing together critical social science perspectives with clinical and epidemiological insights, we’ll cover a range of disciplines whose journals address HIV. Unfortunately only some of these journals are open-access, and we applaud and support those that are. The coverage is not exhaustive but is intended to connect and stimulate thought and conversation around critical issues. …
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CONFERENCES:
Traitements et Contraintes : approches empiriques des dispositifs de prise en charge institutionnelle, à l’Université Paris 13 à Bobigny, jeudi et vendredi prochains.
Comme vous le savez, le groupe “Traitements et Contraintes” de l’IRIS aura le plaisir de vous accueillir pour son colloque Traitements et Contraintes : approches empiriques des dispositifs de prise en charge institutionnelle, à …
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PrEP: time to rethink prevention, effectiveness and ethics?
One of the more controversial interventions proposed for HIV prevention in those who test HIV antibody negative and perceived to be at risk is pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) – a daily pill comprising one or two antiretroviral drugs manufactured by Gilead Inc. Besides the mixed results from multi-site randomised controlled trials (RCTs) seeking …
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Welcome to the second Broadsheets “Cut and Clip,” covering news made between mid-May and mid-June, 2012.
Topics covered in the first posting were arranged under the headings: (1) treatment liberalization; (2) HIV and Health Systems Strengthening; (3) HIV and the Law; (4) Counting – Targets and Funding; (5) Pragmatics of Access; (6) Synergies; (7) Some National HIV-Related Initiatives Making Headlines; …
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As the International AIDS Conference (aka “AIDS 2012”) approaches, it is fitting to consider the meaning of activism in the response to the epidemic. Historically, not only is the conference a venue for sharing scientific findings, program experiences, and policy implications at a huge, global scale (the conference attracts over 25,000 attendees and is broadcast in real time in many …
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Today the Global Commission on HIV and the Law released its report “HIV and the Law: Risks, Rights & Health”, and we think it’s a pretty significant publication that deserves a critical and appreciative response.
In their words, “The final report of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law presents a coherent and compelling evidence base on human rights …