ABSTRACT
The specific modes described in the chapter are experienced among people living with HIV/AIDS in the Kingdom of Swaziland. This chapter draws upon data from a medical anthropological project to explore the articulation of bodily disruption caused by HIV infection in the form of HIV disclosure. The meanings of HIV disclosure in Swaziland relate to the lived nexus of colonial history, global political economy, epidemiology and reification of tradition in Swazi discourses. For its focus on the embodied mediation of historical, material and sociocultural processes, the phenomenological approach used here to apprehend diverse aspects of being HIV positive, including of disclosure. As the accounts provided in the chapter indicate, Shiselweni Home-based Care organization (SHBC) care supporters relationships with HIV positive individuals and their families were pivotal in making biomedical interventions actionable. Anxieties over HIV stigma are paramount features of HIV disclosure, so much so that disclosure often functions as a proxy measure for stigma.
