Resistance and the regimen: The microthanatopolitics of Venezuelan antiretroviral scarcity and HIV drug adherence failures.

The Venezuelan State does not provide adequate antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the population living with HIV, resulting in pharmaceutical scarcity, involuntary treatment pauses, and adherence failures. Such a situation may result in the development of resistance to certain ART drugs, meaning that Venezuelans with HIV may have their treatment options reduced for the remainder of their lives. It can take a number of years for a person to acquire late-stage HIV/AIDS and for death to occur, and so I focus on the microbiological death of CD4 cells over time - a concept I call 'microthanatopolitics'.

Challenging NHS Corporate Mentality: Hospital-Management and Bureaucracy in London's Pandemic.

Whilst NHS Health Service management is usually characterized by hierarchized bureaucracy and profit-driven competitiveness, the COVID-19 pandemic drastically disrupted these ways of working and allowed London-based non-clinical management to experience their roles otherwise. This paper is based on 35 interviews with senior non-clinical management at a London-based NHS Trust during 'Alpha phase' of Britain's pandemic response (May-August 2020), an oft-overlooked group in the literature. I will draw upon Graeber's theory of "total bureaucratization" to argue that though the increasing neo-liberalization of the health-services has hitherto contributed toward a corporate mentality, the pandemic gave managers a chance to experience more collaboration and freedom than usual, which ultimately led to more effective realization of decision-making and change.

'Aquí viene una Veneca más': Venezuelan migrants and 'the sexual question' in Peru.

Migrant access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services has been highlighted as an urgent priority for the 800,000+ Venezuelans who have arrived in Peru in recent years due to political and economic crisis. Venezuelan migrants in Peru, however, negotiate their access to SRH services in what anthropologists term a 'geography of blame', and are accused and stigmatised for having imported sexually transmitted infections to the local population. Alongside this blame, female migrants are highly sexualised and face stigma, resulting in real and perceived threats to their safety, wellbeing, and integration.

Consciously quarantined: a review of the early anthropological response to the global COVID-19 lockdown.

Whilst quarantine has been experienced in a multitude of ways around the world, for some anthropologists the quietening of public movement was met with a flurry of attentive typing. For those who were consciously quarantined, a social science response to COVID-19 was sought at University College London through a call for posts as part of the UCL Medical Anthropology blog; capturing the real-time observations and scholarly reflections on the unfolding pandemic situation as it reached its height across the globe. The global flow of coronavirus - both as a literal microbial agent and as an idea - has played out on the 'coronascape' in multiple ways since it exploded onto worldwide consciousness in early 2020.

Venezuelan women's perception of sexual and reproductive health services in Lima, Peru.

Objectives: To know the perception of Venezuelan women about sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in Lima, Peru.

Materials And Methods: This study had a qualitative methodological approach; 50 migrant women in Lima and three obstetricians who provide SRH care by the United Nations Population Fund were interviewed, information was collected from July to December 2019. The SRH service in Lima was analyzed using the theory of "reproductive governance".

[Qualitative analysis of the care in the family planning services offered quechua-speaking patients in Ayacucho, Peru].

Objectives.: The aim of this study was to address and analyze the medical care provided to low-income Quechua women who use the Seguro Integral de Salud (SIS, in Spanish) (comprehensive health insurance) to access family planning services, and to determine whether there is a significant fear toward contraceptive methods because of the forced sterilizations occurred in the past.

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(Re)produciendo profesionales peruanos: la asistencia social y la ciudadanía-materna de las madres quechuas empobrecidas.

A través de los discursos de independencia financiera y «profesio-nalización» de la descendencia promovidos por la asistencia médica (SIS) y social (Juntos) provista por el Estado, las mujeres quechuas que viven en la pobreza descubren que, al ingresar a la maternidad, su plena ciudadanía se vuelve condicional a los comportamientos exitosos y la administración de los hijos para obtener un medio de vida más «deseable» que el suyo. Esto sugiere que la maternidad, mientras se es pobre, da un valor moral a las mujeres que el Estado usa para justificar su monitoreo y gobierno. Este artículo se basa en un año de trabajo de campo etnográfico en comunidades rurales y centros o puestos de salud en la provincia de Vilcashuamán, departamento de Ayacucho, Perú.