ABSTRACT
This chapter compares approaches to HIV treatment in northern Nigeria from the perspectives of Islamic prophetic medicine and biomedicine. It concerns how the recent expansion of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Nigeria has altered and expanded the therapeutic economy of HIV, how Muslims living with HIV/AIDS and the practitioners who treat them appraise the efficacy of ART, and how the drugs themselves are understood as substances requiring moral evaluation. The costs of treatments provided by practitioners of prophetic medicine vary based on the form and duration of treatment, the practitioner, and the financial situation of the patient. Highlighting the economic aspect of the therapeutic economy of HIV, Dauda makes the case that malamai working in the prophetic tradition are displeased with biomedical practitioners and their provision of ART because this competition encroaches on their business. The policy states that Nigeria's Islamic HIV/AIDS policy shall be based on the injunctions of the Glorious Quran and Sunnah of the Prophet.
