"It’s not just a pill”: conflicts, moralities and the administration of a “knowing” about living with indetectable HIV/AIDS

ABSTRACT

This paper tries to examine the tensions, conflicts and adjustments that have been mobilized since the emergency of a viral undetectability to the HIV/AIDS as a global health policy. The analysis begins from the generational differences that, when associated with other social markers, modulate ways of feeling, perceiving and living the daily experiences with the undetectable HIV/AIDS and, thereby, they imply the production of political frameworks. Thus, it places itself in a recent scenery of disputes among generations of the activism and brings complexification to the biomedical centrality still crossing the conduction of AIDS politics. Two ethnographic situations are taken as focus of reflections and are part of a more amplified field of researches developed between 2016 and 2021 in the Rede de Jovens + RJ.

KEYWORDS:
HIV/AIDS; moral; generation; corporalities; social movements