Children's Roles in Tuberculosis Treatment Regimes

Constructing Childhood and Kinship in Urban Zambia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2288461
AutoresJ Hunleth (0000-0003-4516-4407, Department of Surgery Washington University School of Medicine, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen27
Número2
Páginas292-311
Fecha de publicación2013-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/maq.12028
PMID23804398
PMCIDPMC3707965
OpenAlexW2083034205
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas31

In Zambia, the burden of HIV-related diseases such as tuberculosis has received substantial international attention. Zambians experience and participate in a range of globally produced programs to manage TB and cure TB sufferers. Guided by WHO's Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course protocol, TB treatment regimens now emphasize adherence to medications as the primary way to achieve cure. This article aims to understand how adherence models enter into the daily lives of children who live with and care for adult TB patients in an area disproportionately affected by the disease. I suggest that children domesticate adherence models, using them as strategies to safeguard identities, relationships, livelihoods, and futures that are increasingly under threat in the age of HIV. They draw on TB treatment and the hope and agency it affords to hold onto a version of childhood in which they are cared for by adults who will advocate for their well-being

Agency (philosophy · Disease · Family medicine · Geography · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Livelihood · Political science · Poverty · Social science · Sociology · Tb treatment · Tuberculosis · Children's Rights and Participation · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Law · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare