Projekt

This is a follow-up study to explore the culture and social organization of treatment as it is shaped within AIDS clinics. The project will investigate the practices of patients on ART in the clinic setting in mobilizing social and therapeutic resources, and in collaborating with fellow patients and health clinic staff. The study will further explore perspectives of health staff on their roles and expectations in supporting patients to access scarce resources for health. The on-going study is on how patients mobilize social and medical resources in a fragmented medical system, with particular focus on persons infected with HIV that are living on ART. The follow-up is after the first phase of the project focussed on patients' practices on resource mobilization and networks in kin and family setting - outside the clinic and realization of the social in nature of treatment centres, which need a systematic data collection and analysis. This is a two- year project, which will employ ethnographic methods of participant observation and narrative inquiry.

• Prof. Dr. Mamadou Diawara

  Universität Frankfurt am Main
  Zentrum für interdisziplinäre
  Afrikaforschung (ZIAF)
  Campus Westend
  Frankfurt am Main
  

• Dr. David Kyaddondo

  Makerere University
  Department of Social Work and Social
  Administration
  Kampala
  Uganda
  

• Social capital and resilience among people living on antiretroviral therapy in resource poor Uganda