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PhD Candidate Austin Bryan (Anthropology) will present his dissertation research on what he describes as a "Global Medical Apartheid." Bryan notes that although the late 1980s brought to the market lifesaving anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) for HIV, these drugs were largely inaccessible to those living with HIV in the "Global South." As a result, millions of people died from preventable deaths in places like Uganda. However, sustained social liberation movements - such as the movement for queer liberation in Uganda - have come as an outgrowth of the crisis, revealing and reframing the social, legal, political, economic and affective dimensions of Global Medical Apartheid, that is, its logic and practices. Drawing on two and a half years of immersive fieldwork in Uganda with healthcare workers, development aid workers, and LGBTQ+ and HIV activists, Bryan analyzes the historical, legal, social and economic conditions of Uganda’s response to its devastating HIV epidemic and the contemporary criminalization of ‘homosexuality’, including capital punishment. 

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