Ethnography that examines the global civil rights movement demanding access to HIV treatments as it has developed in West Africa.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Côte-d'Ivoire and Triage in the Time of AIDS 1
1. Testimonials That Bind: Organizing Communities with HIV 15
2. Confessional Technologies: Conjuring the Self 35
3. Soldiers of God: Together and Apart 61
4. Life Itself: Triage and Therapeutic Citizenship 89
5. Biopower: Fevers, Tribes, and Bulldozers 111
6. The Crisis: Economies, Warriors, and the Erosion of Sovereignty 137
7. Uses and Pleasures: The Republic Inside Out 157
Conclusion: Who Lives? Who Dies? 175
Notes 189
References 205
Index 229