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This chapter offers an ethnographic account of a contest that developed between the Pakistani government and a Community-Based Organization of HIV-positive people over the care of people living with HIV/AIDS. It begins with the story of the pioneer of AIDS activism in Pakistan, who discovered an outbreak of HIV/AIDS in a small town. As the organization became a conduit to assist in the provision of free antiretrovirals funded by donors, the staff at the local health department began to resent it. The local health department wrested back the provision and administration of HIV/AIDS services. This turn of events challenges accounts of the failing state that is the subject of humanitarian intervention as well as accounts of the retreating neoliberal state.
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Qureshi, A. (2018). Responsibility for Care and Support. In: AIDS in Pakistan. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6220-9_7
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