Viral Frictions: Global Health and the Persistence of HIV Stigma in Kenya

by Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer

Viral Frictions takes the reader along a trail of intersecting narratives to uncover how and why it is that HIV-related stigma persists in the age of treatment. Pfeiffer convincingly argues that stigma is a socially constructed process co-produced at the nexus of local, national, and global relationships and storytelling about and practices associated with HIV. Based on a decade of fieldwork in one highway trading center in Kenya, Viral...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978822324
• ISBN13: 9781978822320
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher