Hiv, Gender and the Politics of Medicine: Embodied Democracy in the Global South

by Elizabeth Mills

This book centres on women living with HIV in South Africa who have navigated affective relationships, activist networks, government institutions and global coalitions to transform health policies that govern access to HIV medicines. Drawing on 20 years of ethnographic and policy research in South Africa, Brazil and India, it highlights the value of understanding the embodied and political dimensions of health policy and reveals the networked threads...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529221919
• ISBN13: 9781529221916
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"