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- From Ideas to Impact: Identifying and Effectively Conveying Your Core Messages1:00 am
- Commuter Coffee8:00 am
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- Haiti: How Can It Solve Its Many Crises?12:30 pm
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- Excerpts from an Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi4:00 pm
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Excerpts from an Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi
In her new book, "An Epidemic of Uncertainty," Jenny Trinitapoli advances a new framework for studying social life by emphasizing something social scientists routinely omit from their theories, models, and measures: what people know they don’t know. Taking Malawi’s ongoing AIDS epidemic as an entry point, she shows that despite admirable declines in new HIV infections and AIDS-related mortality, an epidemic of uncertainty persists; at any given point in time, fully half of Malawian young adults don’t know their HIV status. Reckoning with the impact of this uncertainty within the bustling trading town of Balaka, she argues that HIV-related uncertainty is measurable, pervasive, and impervious to biomedical solutions, with consequences that expand into multiple domains of life, including relationship stability, fertility, and health. Over the duration of a groundbreaking decade-long longitudinal study, rich survey data combined with simple demographic analyses and poignant ethnographic vignettes depict how individual lives and population patterns unfold against the backdrop of a changing epidemic. Even as HIV is transformed from a progressive, fatal disease to a chronic and manageable condition, the accompanying epidemic of uncertainty remains fundamental to understanding social life in this part of the world.
When | 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm on Thursday, November 14, 2024 |
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Building | Hybrid; 67 Bay State Road |
Contact Organization | Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future |
Fees | Free |
Speakers | Jenny Trinitapoli |