Viral FrictionsViral Frictions takes the reader along a trail of intersecting narratives to uncover how and why it is that HIV related stigma persists in the age of treatment. Pfeiffer convincingly argues that stigma is a socially constructed process co produced at the nexus of local, national, and global relationships and storytelling about and practices associated with HIV. Based on a decade of fieldwork in one highway trading center in Kenya, Viral Frictions