Second Chances
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Second Chances

Surviving AIDS in Uganda

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Second Chances

Surviving AIDS in Uganda

About this book

During the first decade of this millennium, many thousands of people in Uganda who otherwise would have died from AIDS got second chances at life. A massive global health intervention, the scaling up of antiretroviral therapy (ART), saved them and created a generation of people who learned to live with treatment. As clients they joined programs that offered free antiretroviral medicine and encouraged "positive living." Because ART is not a cure but a lifelong treatment regime, its consequences are far-reaching for society, families, and individuals. Drawing on personal accounts and a broad knowledge of Ugandan culture and history, the essays in this collection explore ART from the perspective of those who received second chances. Their concerns about treatment, partners, children, work, food, and bodies reveal the essential sociality of Ugandan life. The collection is based on research undertaken by a team of social scientists including both Western and African scholars.

Contributors. Phoebe Kajubi, David Kyaddondo, Lotte Meinert, Hanne O. Mogensen, Godfrey Etyang Siu, Jenipher Twebaze, Michael A. Whyte, Susan Reynolds Whyte

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Polygraphy
  3. Introduction. The First Generation
  4. CASE I. Robinah and Joyce: The Connecting Sisters
  5. Chapter One. Connections
  6. CASE II. Saddam: Treatment Programs
  7. Chapter Two. Clientship
  8. CASE III. Suzan: The Necessity of Travel
  9. Chapter Three. Mobility
  10. CASE IV. MamaGirl & MamaBoy: Family Matters
  11. Chapter Four. Families
  12. CASE V. Alice: Keeping a Good Man
  13. Chapter Five. Partners
  14. CASE VI. Jackie: Children without Grandparents
  15. Chapter Six. Children
  16. CASE VII. John: Working Contingencies
  17. Chapter Seven. Work
  18. CASE VIII. Hassan: Soft Food and Town Life
  19. Chapter Eight. Food
  20. CASE IX. Jolly: Appearances and Numbers
  21. Chapter Nine. Bodies
  22. CASE X. Rachel: Buckets of Medicine
  23. Chapter Ten. Medicine
  24. CASE XI. Dominic: A Multitude of Adversities
  25. Chapter Eleven. Life
  26. Acknowledgments
  27. Bibliography
  28. Contributors
  29. Index