Our new husbands are here: households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule

Abstract

African civil society organisations, beyond their members’ sero-status. This question becomes particularly relevant as increased ART access has made HIV a manageable disease for many Africans, and AIDS support organisations have had to refashion themselves as community development associations that undertake income-generation projects for their members. Despite these limitations, the book raises numerous questions that will inform future research and policymaking. First, just as AIDS activists self-fashioned themselves through testimony during Côte d’Ivoire’s economic and political demise, how might they selffashion themselves in response to the decline in donor funding for AIDS? What new technologies (beyond testimonies) will they incorporate? Since the politics of triage revolves around such mobilisation, these are highly relevant questions. Second, can the politics of triage become more transparent? That is, what are the criteria for who does and does not get access to important medications, not just for HIV, but for numerous lifethreatening diseases? By pointing out the dynamics of who lives and dies in West Africa’s AIDS epidemic, Nguyen challenges us all to engage this question.