Main description:

This book will be a vital resource for researchers in the field of health communication, especially in the aftermath of COVID-19, as we begin confronting the reality of which countries can afford to declare an 'end to the pandemic', and which ones can't

A unique feature of this book is that its center and focus is on persons living with HIV - It highlights their experiences and voices

It examines the discourse of a "post-AIDS" culture using a range of methodological tools, and the medical-discursive shift from crisis and death to survival and living

It includes contributions from a diverse group of international scholars, and interrogates and engages with the cultural, social, political, scientific, historical, global, and local consumptions of the term "post-AIDS" from the perspective of meaning-making on health, illness, and well-being

This book will be an essential read for scholars and students of health communication, sociology of health and illness, medical humanities, political science, and medical anthropology, as well as for policy makers and activists

Contents:

Dreaming a Post-AIDS: An Introduction to the Discourse; Part I: Debate, Discourse, Politics; 1. Revisiting "Post-AIDS": Understanding Gay Community Responses to HIV Then and Now; 2. Biocommunicability and the Biopolitics of "Post-AIDS"; 3. Last People Standing: People Living with HIV After the 'End of the Epidemic'; 4. A Dramatization of Post-AIDs Stigma: A Pentadic Analysis of the CDC's "Let's Stop HIV Together" Campaign; 5. Indigenous HIV/AIDS in the Context of 'Post-AIDS' Discourse: A Meta-Synthesis of Qualitative Research; 6. Neoliberal Hegemony and National HIV/AIDS Policy in India; Part II: Rhetorics and Relations; 7. "I Might as Well Be Dead": Aging with HIV in the "Post-AIDS" Era; 8. African American Mothers Living with HIV in the "Post-AIDS" Era: A Meta-Ethnographic Synthesis; 9. "YOU FUCKING DESERVE HIV": Seeking PrEP information, Disciplinary Power, and Queer Technologies of the Self on /r/AskGayBros; 10. Intimacy Uncertainty and Post-AIDS Discourse: HIV and the Role It Plays as an Uninvited Third Party in Serodiscordant Relationships; 11. The Experience of Building and Testing a Visual Health Literacy Resource for HIV Prophylaxis; Afterword: On Localocentricity and "Post-AIDS"