Theodore Powers teaches in the Department of Anthropology and Global Heath Studies Program at the University of Iowa.
Sustaining Life provides an ethnographic and historically grounded rendering of HIV/AIDS activism in South Africa that successfully led to near universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment. It is a tremendous contribution to the literature on the HIV/ AIDS crisis in Africa and it is a story that needs to be told.-- James Pfeiffer, University of Washington Sustaining Life provides an excellent introduction to anyone interested in knowing more about how South African AIDS activists--primarily those working as part of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)--developed its political campaign for demanding access to life-saving HIV treatment for all South Africans...a very clearly and engagingly written book.-- Medical Anthropology Quarterly