Sustaining Life: AIDS Activism in South Africa

by Theodore Powers

An ethnographic account of the South African AIDS movement and activists

From the historical roots of AIDS activism in the struggle for African liberation to the everyday work of community education in Khayelitsha, Sustaining Life tells the story of how the rights-based South African AIDS movement successfully transformed public health institutions, enabled access to HIV/AIDS treatment, and sustained the lives of people living...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812252004
• ISBN13: 9780812252002
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"