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Launch of ISS Monograph: AIDS and AIDS Treatment in a Rural South African Setting

Date: 2008-09-03 to Invalid date

Launch of ISS Monograph: AIDS and AIDS Treatment in a Rural South African Setting
Pretoria, 3 September 2008

 

For an 18-month period between 2005 and 2007, Jonny Steinberg documented the responses of a small village to the arrival of an anti-retroviral treatment programme. He was there to ask the following questions: What happens to the meaning of AIDS when treatment for it becomes available for the first time? Does it become less stigmatised? Do some of the darker and more pernicious meanings attached to it begin to disintegrate? Most importantly, do the ill start coming forward for treatment or do significant numbers stay at home and die?

 

Using the rich ethnographic data he gathered, Steinberg offers lessons for the design and implementation of treatment programmes. He also pitches in to long-standing scholarly debates and about the relationship between AIDS stigma, witchcraft and sexual shame.

 

Jonny Steinberg is the author of four books: Thin Blue: The Unwritten Rules of Policing South Africa (2008); Sizwe’s Test: A Young Man’s Journey Through a Great Epidemic (2008); The Number (2004); and Midlands (2002). Steinberg has also written extensively for the ISS on criminal justice policy in South Africa. He was educated at Wits and at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

 

Join us to hear the author and the Director of the Centre for the Study of AIDS discuss and debate the findings of Steinberg’s research.

 

Speakers:

  • Jonny Steinberg, Black Men and Coloured Pills: A Report on Race, Masculinity and ARV Treatment from the Former Transkei

  • Mary Crewe, Director: Centre for the Study of AIDS, Pretoria University. Ambiguity and Absence: Understanding AIDS in 2008

 

Date: 3 September 2008
Time: 10h00 – 12h00 (a finger lunch will be served)
Venue: ISS Conference Room, Block C, Brooklyn Court, Veale Street, New Muckleneuk, Tshwane (Pretoria)
(Parking in Brooklyn Mall and at ABSA Court)

 

RSVP: Ms Busi Nyume, [email protected]. Tel 012 346 9500

 

This seminar is made possible by funding from the Ford Foundation

 

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