Becoming-with-HIV: an embodied history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Argentina
Keywords:
public health, global policies, treatment as prevention, HIV/AIDSAbstract
Based on ethnographic research carried out in a Primary Care Center in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (Argentina) this article addresses the human and non-human entanglements articulated in the production of a body-with-HIV. Recovering the temporality of a life story, it traces an embodied history of the epidemic through the narrative of a person with HIV who has been undergoing treatment for more than 20 years. Narratives are understood here as semantic units in which actions, episodes and segments of life unfold, as the product of encounters, conversations and interviews produced throughout fieldwork. In this framework, the ways in which political and technological transformations, diseases, viruses, treatments and medical and pharmacological interventions are articulated in a locally situated becoming-with-HIV are analyzed.
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