Remaking the Technosubject

Kenyan Men Contextualizing HIV Self-Testing Technologies

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ID4864254
AutoresMatthew Thomann (0000-0003-0754-3254, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, autor correspondente), Bernadette Kombo (0000-0003-1808-4356, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada), Helgar Musyoki (0000-0002-0972-6065, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya), Kennedy Masinya (Men Against AIDS Youth Group, Kisumu, Kenya), Samuel Kuria (Minority Person’s Empowerment Program, Thika, Kenya), Martin Kyana (HIV & AIDS People’s Alliance of Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya), Janet Musimbi (0000-0001-7071-3063, Partners for Health and Development in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya), Lisa Lazarus (0000-0002-7673-4671, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada), Jenny Blanchard (0000-0002-4701-590X, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada), Parinita Bhattacharjee (0000-0003-3277-7693, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada), Robert Lorway (0000-0001-6923-8832, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada)
Ano2022
Volume41
Fascículo3
Páginas272-286
Data de publicação2022-04-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2022.2027405
PMID35129411
OpenAlexW4210895935
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas52

The Kenyan government offers free HIV self-testing kits to men who have sex with men. The value of self-testing is based on the imaginary of an autonomous technosubject empowered to independently control testing services, thereby "freed," through technology, from the social conditions that might inhibit health services utilization. Following a community-centered collaborative approach, community researchers interviewed their peers who examined and reacted to the technology. Participants reframed the technosubject as intertwined with the social world and the testing kit itself as an object that exerts agency and possesses affective potential. Attending to these socio-material relationalities offers insights into program planning

Agency (philosophy · Family medicine · Government (linguistics · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Kenya · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology