Este artículo recupera la experiencia de personas con VIH residentes del Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, en torno del «tratamiento como prevención», núcleo central de las políticas globales contemporáneas de gobierno del VIH-Sida. Se trata de una investigación etnográfica cuyo trabajo de campo (veinticuatro meses con una frecuencia de dos a tres visitas semanales de ocho a doce horas de duración cada una) se desarrolló entre 2016 y 2018. El corpus empírico consiste en trece entrevistas en profundidad y un extenso conjunto de registros de observación de interacciones cotidianas. Analizamos los modos en que indetectabilidad e intransmisibilidad del virus se entrelazan en la vida con la enfermedad. Mostramos que mientras las políticas presentan la relación indetectable-intransmisible como la clave para poner fin a la epidemia y a la vez como una poderosa herramienta para...

This article recovers the experience of people with HIV residing in the Metropolitan Area of the Buenos Aires Province, around «treatment as prevention» the central core of the HIV-Aids contemporary government policies. It’s an ethnographic investigation with fieldwork (24 months of 2-3 weekly visits lasting 8-12 hours each) developes between 2016 and 2018. Our empirical corpus consists of 13 in-depth interviews and extensive records of everyday interaction observations. We analyze the ways in which the virus´' undetectability and untransmittability engage into everyday life with HIV. We show that while policies present the undetectable-untransmittable relation as key to ending the epidemic and simultaneously as a powerful tool to respond to the stigma surrounding HIV, these relations become more complex in the everyday lives of those affected by it, giving rise to tense and co...

This article recovers the experience of people with HIV residing in the Metropolitan Area of the Buenos Aires Province, around «treatment as prevention» the central core of the HIV-Aids contemporary government policies. It’s an ethnographic investigation with fieldwork (24 months of 2-3 weekly visits lasting 8-12 hours each) developes between 2016 and 2018. Our empirical corpus consists of 13 in-depth interviews and extensive records of everyday interaction observations. We analyze the ways in which the virus´' undetectability and untransmittability engage into everyday life with HIV. We show that while policies present the undetectable-untransmittable relation as key to ending the epidemic and simultaneously as a powerful tool to respond to the stigma surrounding HIV, these relations become more complex in the everyday lives of those affected by it, giving rise to tense and co...