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This chapter offers an ethnographic account of the relations between Community-Based Organizations of HIV positive people in Pakistan and their clients—between donor agencies and the community of beneficiaries. It discusses divergent visions for empowering HIV-positive people, their participation in policy, claims and contestations over authenticity, and mutual allegations of corruption. The chapter shows how universalizing models of civil society and empowerment were appropriated by a few to advance their personal agendas. It critically engages literature on HIV-positive people, which posits their biological condition as foundational to their sociality, showing that this literature has closed off discussion of the uncivil acts taking place within civil society.
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Qureshi, A. (2018). AIDS Activism and ‘Civil Society’. In: AIDS in Pakistan. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6220-9_8
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