Paradoxes of PrEP for HIV Prevention - Morten Skovdal

Paradoxes of PrEP for HIV Prevention

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Buch | Softcover
176 Seiten
2025
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-7536-4 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence.


Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a drug taken by HIV-negative people that reduces the risk of getting HIV. Comparing two case studies in Denmark and Zimbabwe, this book demonstrates six paradoxes that users often encounter in navigating their PrEP journey. The paradoxes lead to contentions, uncertainties, dilemmas and ambiguities that need to be carefully and pensively responded to through what the author terms ‘everyday PrEP negotiations’.


The social nature and need for such everyday PrEP negotiations help explain why PrEP works for some people and not for others. This book argues that such insight is critical to make PrEP work for more people and to inform social public health responses.

Morten Skovdal is Professor of Participatory Health Research at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

1. Introduction: PrEP and the Biomedical turn in HIV prevention


2. Two empirical case studies


3. Accessible, yet inaccessible


4. Healthy, yet on treatment


5. Responsible, yet irresponsible


6. Protective, yet unprotective


7. Acceptable, yet stigmatising


8. Liberating, yet restraining


9. Problematic, yet productive paradoxes?

Erscheint lt. Verlag 17.2.2025
Zusatzinfo Not illustrated
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 203 mm
Themenwelt Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Infektiologie / Immunologie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10 1-4473-7536-X / 144737536X
ISBN-13 978-1-4473-7536-4 / 9781447375364
Zustand Neuware
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