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All I Eat Is Medicine

Going Hungry in Mozambique’s AIDS Economy

Ippolytos Kalofonos author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:15th Oct '21

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All I Eat Is Medicine charts the lives of individuals and the operation of institutions in the thick of the AIDS epidemic in Mozambique during the global scale-up of treatment for HIV/AIDS at the turn of the twenty-first century. Even as the AIDS treatment scale-up saved lives, it perpetuated the exploitation and exclusion that was implicated in the propagation of the epidemic in the first place. This book calls attention to the global social commitments and responsibilities that a truly therapeutic global health requires.

"Ippolytos Kalofonos argues for global public health systems to confront the underlying causes of inequities instead of only providing medicine to the ill. In doing so, he explains that hunger, disease, and poverty are interlinked." * FoodTank *

"All I Eat is Medicine is a grounded account showing that humanitarianism aid is a double-edged sword."

* World Medical & Health Policy *

ISBN: 9780520289390

Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 23mm

Weight: 454g

304 pages