From “Medical Miracles” to Normal (ised) Medicine: AIDS Treatment, Activism and Citizenship in the UK and South Africa
Published by: IDS
This paper compares and contrasts the cultures of activism and illness and treatment experiences of UK and South African AIDS activists. By the 1990s AIDS public health discourse in the UK, and elsewhere in the West, was reconfiguring AIDS as a manageable chronic illness that could be treated much like diabetes.