HIV treatment and prevention technologies in international perspective / edited by Mark Davis, Corinne Squire.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Essays from the British Sociological Association (BSA) Annual Conference held on April 12, 2007 in London at the University of East London.

HIV technologies / Mark Davis and Corinne Squire -- Technologies of 'participation' and 'capacity building' in HIV/AIDS management in AFrica : four case studies / Cathering Campbell -- Technologies of treatment : scaling up ART in the Western Cape, South Africa / Fareed Abdullah and Corinne Squire -- Integrating HIV treatment and prevention : shifts in community-based organising and biopolitics in the Canadian context / Eric Mykhalovskiy -- Parental communication with children about sex in the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa : cultural appropriations of Western parenting expertise / Lindy Wilbraham -- HIV transmissions : consequences for self in an era of medicalisation / Paul Flowers -- Antiretroviral treatment and HIV prevention : perspectives from qualitative research with gay men with HIV in the UK / Mark Davis -- Engaging in a culture of barebacking : gay men and the risk of HIV prevention / Kane Race -- HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and the complexities of biomedical prevention : ontological openness and the prevention assemblage / Marsha Rosengarten and Mike Michael -- Particularity, potentiation, citizenship and pragmatism / Mark Davis and Corinne Squire.

"This book addresses the governance of the HIV and AIDS pandemic, with reference to the social aspects of technology and the technological mediation of the pandemic in international contexts"-- Provided by publisher.