title: Fragility, fluidity, and resilience: caregiving configurations three decades into AIDS.
abstract: HIV and AIDS have impacted on social relations in many ways, eroding personal networks, contributing to household poverty, and rupturing intimate relations. With the continuing transmission of HIV particularly in resource-poor settings, families and others must find new ways to care for those who are living with HIV, for those who are ill and need increased levels of personal and medical care, and for orphaned children. These needs occur concurrently with changes in family structure, as a direct result of HIV-related deaths but also due to industrialization, urbanization, and labor migration. In this special issue, the contributing authors draw on ethnographies from South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zambia, and - by way of contrast - China, to illustrate how people find new ways of constituting families, or of providing alternatives to families, in order to provide care and support to people infected with and afflicted by HIV.
authors.affiliation: a School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences , University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg , South Africa.|b Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University , Providence , RI , USA.
authors.forename: Lenore
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Manderson
authors.affiliation: c Sociology Department , College of Saint Benedict & Saint John's University , Collegeville , MN , USA.
authors.forename: Ellen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Block
authors.affiliation: d Department of Anthropology , University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg , South Africa.
authors.forename: Nolwazi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mkhwanazi
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D054540:Child, Orphaned; D002681:China; D013541:Eswatini; D005190:Family; D005191:Family Characteristics; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007927:Lesotho; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D012944:Social Support; D013019:South Africa; D015024:Zambia
keywords: Kinship; caregiving; changing social structures; gender