Lesley Gittings delivered a presentation based on her PhD research with Mzantsi Wakho entitled ‘Becoming men: HIV-positive adolescent boys’ engagement with traditional and biomedical health services and products’. She presented findings on medical pluralism and (dis)engagement with HIV treatment and care for adolescent boys and young men living with HIV in the Eastern Cape. The presentation also explored some of the methodological and ethical challenges of qualitative research with HIV-positive adolescent boys and young men living in precarious contests.