HIV, Viral Suppression and New Technologies of Surveillance and Control

Bibliographic Data

ID5017892
AuthorsAdrian Guta (0000-0002-1380-2016, Carleton University, corresponding author), Stuart J Murray (0000-0001-8850-5406, Carleton University), Marilou Gagnon (0000-0003-4214-3088, University of Ottawa)
Year2016
Volume22
Issue2
Pages82-107
Publication date2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBody & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1357034x15624510
OpenAlexW2298075659
LanguageEN
Citations received21
References cited64

The global response to managing the spread of HIV has recently undergone a significant shift with the advent of 'treatment as prevention', a strategy which presumes that scaling-up testing and treatment for people living with HIV will produce a broader preventative benefit. Treatment as prevention includes an array of diagnostic, technological and policy developments that are creating new understandings of how HIV circulates in bodies and spaces. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, we contextualize these developments by linking them to systems of governance and discursive subjectivation. The goal of this article is to problematize the growing importance of viral suppression in the management of HIV and the use of related surveillance technologies. For people living with HIV, we demonstrate how treatment-as-prevention's emphasis on individual and collective viral load is transforming the performative dimensions of embodied risk, affect, subjectivity and sex

Biology · Biopower · Business · Corporate governance · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Governmentality · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Subjectivity · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Law · Medicine · Sex work and related issues · Virology

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