Rijneveld, Cornelis J. (2021) 'The Biomedical Closet? Undetectability among HIV-positive Gay Men in India.' Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 40 (8). pp. 718-731.
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Abstract
The discourse of Undetectability, referring to the effect of HIV viral suppression on forward sexual transmission, is at the heart of the current paradigm of Treatment-as-Prevention and is invested with hopes of eliminating stigma. But ethnographic examination of the way HIV-positive gay and bisexual men in four major Indian cities experience Undetectability reveals a more complicated picture. Rather than resolve the problem of HIV stigma, Undetectability enables new ways of managing it, including ethical non-disclosure in the face of social danger. This reveals three paradoxes inherent in the universalism of Treatment-as-Prevention and its reliance on biomedical solutions.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Keywords: | India, biomedicalization, gay, HIV/AIDS, treatment-as-prevention, undetectability |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > Department of Anthropology & Sociology |
| ISSN: | 01459740 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2021.1916741 |
| SWORD Depositor: | JISC Publications Router |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Sep 2022 10:04 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/38045 |
| Funders: | Economic and Social Research Council |
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