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    Rethinking the Poverty-disease Nexus: the Case of HIV/AIDS in South Africa

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    Authors
    Pienaar, Kiran
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Pienaar, K. 2015. Rethinking the Poverty-disease Nexus: the Case of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Journal of Medical Humanities. 38 (3): pp. 249–266.
    Source Title
    Journal of Medical Humanities
    DOI
    10.1007/s10912-015-9369-x
    ISSN
    1041-3545
    School
    National Drug Research Institute (NDRI)
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    The final publication is available at Springer via http://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-015-9369-x

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/28777
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    While it is well-established that poverty and disease are intimately connected, the nature of this connection and the role of poverty in disease causation remains contested in scientific and social studies of disease. Using the case of HIV/AIDS in South Africa and drawing on a theoretically grounded analysis, this paper reconceptualises disease and poverty as ontologically entangled. In the context of the South African HIV epidemic, this rethinking of the poverty-disease dynamic enables an account of how social forces such as poverty become embodied in the very substance of disease to produce ontologies of HIV/AIDS unique to South Africa.

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