TY - GEN T1 - HIV exceptionalism : development through disease in Sierra Leone T2 - Quadrant Book A1 - Benton, Adia, 1977- LA - English PP - Minneapolis PB - University of Minnesota Press YR - 2015 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn903645936 AB - In 2002, Sierra Leone emerged from a decadelong civil war. Seeking international attention and development aid, its government faced a dilemma. Though devastated by conflict, Sierra Leone had a low prevalence of HIV. However, like most African countries, it stood to benefit from a large influx of foreign funds specifically targeted at HIV/AIDS prevention and care. What Adia Benton chronicles in this ethnographically rich and often moving book is how one war-ravaged nation reoriented itself as a country suffering from HIV at the expense of other, more pressing health concerns. During her fieldwork in the capital, Freetown, a city of one million people, at least thirty NGOs administered internationally funded programs that included HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Benton probes why HIV exceptionalism-the idea that HIV is an exceptional disease requiring an exceptional response-continues to guide approaches to the epidemic worldwide and especially in Africa, even in low-prevalence settings. In the fourth decade since the emergence of HIV/AIDS, many today are questioning whether the effort and money spent on this health crisis has in fact helped or exacerbated the problem. HIV Exceptionalism does this and more, asking, what are the unanticipated consequences that HIV/AIDS development programs engender? NO - "Sponsored by Quadrant's Health and Society group (advisory board: Susan Craddock, Jennifer Gunn, Alex Rothman, and Karen-Sue Taussig), and by the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota." NO - "A different version of chapter 2 was previously published as "Exceptional Suffering?: Enumeration and Vernacular Accounting in the HIV-Positive Experience," Medical Anthropology 31, no. 4 (July 2012): 310-328; Medical Anthropology is available online at http://www.informaworld.com." CN - RA643.86.S5 B46 2015eb SN - 9781452943848 SN - 1452943842 SN - 9780816692422 SN - 0816692424 SN - 9780816692439 SN - 0816692432 KW - HIV-positive persons : Care : Government policy : Sierra Leone. KW - AIDS (Disease) : Government policy : Sierra Leone. KW - Health facilities : Sierra Leone : Finance. KW - Federal aid to health facilities : Sierra Leone. KW - Public health : Anthropological aspects : Sierra Leone. KW - HIV Infections : prevention & control KW - Séropositifs : Soins : Politique gouvernementale : Sierra Leone. KW - Sida : Politique gouvernementale : Sierra Leone. KW - Équipements sanitaires : Sierra Leone : Finances. KW - Santé publique : Aspect anthropologique : Sierra Leone. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Social Security. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Social Services & Welfare. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural. KW - AIDS (Disease) : Government policy KW - Federal aid to health facilities KW - Health facilities : Finance KW - HIV-positive persons : Care : Government policy KW - Public health : Anthropological aspects KW - Sierra Leone KW - Aids KW - Gesundheitswesen KW - Gesellschaft ER -