European Conference on African Studies

ECAS 2009
3^rd European Conference on African Studies

Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009

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Panel 94: Testing for and Treating HIV/AIDS: Social and Cultural Explanations for Failure (Fraser McNeill)

Panel Organiser: Fraser McNeill

This panel seeks to investigate localised experiences of biomedical therapeutic responses to HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, such as HIV testing and antiretroviral treatment for people living with AIDS. We will examine social, political, cultural and historic explanations for why therapeutic responses to the pandemic have been met with suspicion, and explore the extent to which such localised experiences contribute to the inefficacy of medical interventions.

Accepted Abstracts

Alexander Rodlach - Abstract

Making a Killing in Zimbabwe: A Collapsing Healthcare System and HIV/AIDS Conspiracy Suspicions

Benjamin Kwansa - Abstract

Leave them to die! Stigmatisation or self-protection: attitude towards PLWA on ART

Eduard Grebe - Abstract

Educated patients, politicised science and the construction of credibility in South African AIDS treatment activism

Erhabor Idemudia - Abstract

Culture, Stigma and HIV/AIDS in Africa: Overcoming testing and treatment failures

Fraser McNeill - Abstract

Antiretrovirals, Secrecy and Suspicion: The Role of Forced Disclosure in Adherence to AIDS Treatment

Isak Niehaus - Abstract

Using Anti-Retrovirals in Bushbuckridge, South Africa: Therapeutic Efficacy, Medical Pluralism and the Problem of Treatment Literacy

Jonathan M. Dapaah - Abstract

The necessity of secrecy. Accessing VCT and ART in Ghana Jonathan Mensah Dapaah, ASSR, University of Amsterdam

Lizzy Attree - Abstract

Mary Crewe - Abstract

Pills and Blades

Nicoli Nattrass - Abstract

Barriers to Accessing ARVs in South and Southern Africa

Rekha A. Kumar and Patrice Cailleba - Abstract

HUMAN RIGHTS AND ETHICAL CONCERNS IN OPT- OUT HIV TESTING POLICY: THE CASE OF BOTSWANA