HIV Citizenship in Uneven Landscapes

HIV responsibilisation: Stigma, disclosure, and care in the age of 90‐90‐90

“…This message was consistent across many of the qualitative interviews, and while it is likely that people are still using muti and choosing not to disclose for various reasons (King, 2012; King et al, 2018), it demonstrates how a specific responsibility to be a good HIV patient under the auspice of the public health system re‐works daily realities and behavioural decisions. Another theme of responsibility is recognising that one needs to be tested and then adhere to ART.…”

Geographies of PrEP, TasP and undetectability: Reconceptualising HIV assemblages to explore what else matters in the lives of gay and bisexual men

“…Globally, inequalities in access to affordable and reliable anti-retroviral therapies persist (King et al, 2018). Even within Europe and North America, there are significant asymmetries and inequalities in access to PrEP (Siegler et al, 2018a).…”

“…The geographical study of HIV, thus, came to represent a privileged viewpoint from which to look at different transnational issues (healthcare systems in times of financial constraints; international aid and cooperation; migration) through a political economy perspective (e.g. Hunter, 2007;Ingram, 2010Ingram, , 2013King et al, 2018;Marx et al, 2012). Recent interventions by Tucker (2016Tucker ( , 2020 Beyond this robust political economic orientation, as a result of the availability of HAART most (geographical) studies centred in Western countries in recent decades have tended to focus on prevention strategies rather than the geographies of people living with the virus (for exceptions, see Carter et al, 2016;Di Feliciantonio, 2020;Doyal, 2009;Evans, 2011).…”

Infectious addictions: Geographies of colliding epidemics

“…Political ecology is a well-established field of study that is broadly concerned with the political economic factors that influence natural resource decision making. This approach has been leveraged to examine infectious disease and human health in a variety of contexts (Ferring and Hausermann, 2019; Harris and Carter, 2019; Hausermann, 2015, 2019; Jackson and Neely, 2015; King, 2010, 2015, 2017; King et al, 2018; Neely, 2015, 2020; Richmond et al, 2005). Political ecology of health provides a multi-scalar analytical framework to demonstrate how human disease and health are embedded within social networks, political economic systems, and historical dynamics of a given place; the socio-ecological conditions that shape the spread of disease and decision-making options available to human populations; and the ways disease discourses produced by actors and institutions align or conflict with local dynamics of health and wellbeing.…”

“…In a study of the HIV epidemic in South Africa, King, Burka and Winchester (2018) examine the ways that living with HIV and efforts to manage the disease are confounded by broader socio-political and environmental dynamics. HIV-positive patients can secure life-saving anti-retroviral therapy (ART) in ways inconceivable just 10 years earlier; however, the management of HIV involves more than the access of these drugs but securing other resources necessary to maintain household economies and immune system viability.…”