Treatment combinded with Memory Work

Contradition in terms or why not? An article by Jonathan Morgan, Coordinator of the 10MMP.
In HIV and AIDS contexts, and in an era where ARVs and life saving and life prolonging pharmaceutical treatment have not been available to all who need them, memory work has evolved, more than anything else, as a preparation for death. There is little doubt that classical memory work, that is, memory work as legacy and memory work as succession planning, fits best and is most poignant in the face of death and dying. What needs questioning however, is the often unspoken assumptions that memory work applies only where there is no treatment and where premature death is inevitable, and that if it is not classical memory work, it is not memory work.

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