Gesturing towards broader sexuality-based conceptualisations of HIV assemblages beyond the Minority World

Abstract

In response to Di Feliciantonio and Brown's intervention on PrEP and TasP assemblages, this commentary considers how it may also be possible to expand the scope of the TasP and PrEP assemblages they discuss related to the Minority World to also encompass the Majority World. In particular, this commentary considers how the entities they highlight and deploy to connect health geographies and the geographies of sexualities literatures may also relate to global HIV policy and programming as well as global biomedical and pharmaceutical assemblages.

Keywords

HIV/AIDS Majority World geographies of sexualities health geographies

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