Women And Aids

Author : Pranee Liamputtong
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400758872

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Women, Motherhood and Living with HIV/AIDS by Pranee Liamputtong Pdf

There are about 34 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS. Half are women. There has been a dramatic global increase in the rates of women living with HIV/AIDS. Among young women, especially in developing countries, infection rates are rapidly increasing. Many of these women are also mothers with young infants. When a woman is labeled as having HIV, she is treated with suspicion and her morality is being questioned. Previous research has suggested that women living with HIV/AIDS can be affected by delay in diagnosis, inferior access to health care services, internalized stigma and a poor utilization of health services. This makes it extremely difficult for women to take care of their own health needs. Women are also reluctant to disclose their HIV-positive status as they fear this may result in physical feelings of shame, social ostracism, violence, or expulsion from home. Women living with HIV/AIDS who are also mothers carry a particularly heavy burden of being HIV-infected. This unique book attempts to put together results from empirical research and focuses on issues relevant to women, motherhood and living with HIV/AIDS which have occurred to individual women in different parts of the globe. The book comprises chapters written by researchers who carry out their projects in different parts of the world, and each chapter contains empirical information based on real life situations. This can be used as evidence for health care providers to implement socially and culturally appropriate services to assist individuals and groups who are living with HIV/AIDS in many societies. The book is of interest to scholars and students in the domains of anthropology, sociology, social work, nursing, public health & medicine and health professionals who have a specific interest in issues concerning women who are mothers and living with HIV/AIDS from cross-cultural perspective.

Author : Marion Banzhaf,ACT UP (Organization). New York Women and AIDS Book Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0896083934

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Women, AIDS, and Activism by Marion Banzhaf,ACT UP (Organization). New York Women and AIDS Book Group Pdf

A comprehensive and progressive book about women in the AIDS epidemic. With informative discussion of safer sex and sexuality, HIV testing, treatment and drug trials, public policy and activism. Looking specifically to lesbians, heterosexuals, bisexuals, prostitutes, intravenous drug users, teenagers, mothers, pregnant women, and women in prisons, this book is essential reading for everyone concerned about women's health and the AIDS crisis.

Author : Cecilia Van Hollen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804786140

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Birth in the Age of AIDS by Cecilia Van Hollen Pdf

Birth in the Age of AIDS is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the experiences of HIV-positive women in India during pregnancy, birth, and motherhood at the beginning of the 21st century. The government of India, together with global health organizations, established an important public health initiative to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child. While this program, which targets poor women attending public maternity hospitals, has improved health outcomes for infants, it has resulted in sometimes devastatingly negative consequences for poor, young mothers because these women are being tested for HIV in far greater numbers than their male spouses and are often blamed for bringing this highly stigmatized disease into the family. Based on research conducted by the author in India, this book chronicles the experiences of women from the point of their decisions about whether to accept HIV testing, through their decisions about whether or not to continue with the birth if they test HIV-positive, their birthing experiences in hospitals, decisions and practices surrounding breast-feeding vs. bottle-feeding, and their hopes and fears for the future of their children.

Author : Nancy L. Roth,Katie Hogan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136673320

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Gendered Epidemic by Nancy L. Roth,Katie Hogan Pdf

Since nearly the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, activists have signaled the inadequacy of prevention strategies and drug protocols that have been developed from research done primarily on men. The latest C.D.C. figures prove they were right; for the first time since the beginning of the epidemic, AIDS cases among white men have fallen, yet the largest increases are among women. Weaving together theoretical, critical, and practical perspectives, Gendered Epidemic is a collection of essays that questions the add women and stir model that governs most HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts. The individual essays describe conflicts and contradictions, and pose new theories and practices. Written by HIV positive women, theorists, teachers, artists, policy makers and activists, it offers insights necessary to stem the spread of HIV.

Author : Nancy Goldstein,Jennifer L Manlowe
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0814730930

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The Gender Politics of HIV/AIDS in Women by Nancy Goldstein,Jennifer L Manlowe Pdf

From their posts at the center of the pandemic - in the laboratory, the academy, clinics, and community based organizations - experts such as Evelynn Hammonds, Risa Denenberg, Michelle Murrain, and Paul Farmer criticize blind spots in the recognition and treatment of HIV in women and articulate accessible and practical solutions to specific areas of difficulty.

Author : Errol Mendes,Sakunthala Srighanthan
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780776617800

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Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China by Errol Mendes,Sakunthala Srighanthan Pdf

Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers, women, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. The Canadian contributors offer rich regional, national, and international perspectives on how constitutions, laws, policies, and practices, both in Canada and in other parts of the world, battle discrimination and the conflicts that rise out of it. The Chinese contributors include some of the most independent-minded scholars and practitioners in China. Their assessments of the challenges facing China in the areas of discrimination and inequality not only attest to their personal courage and intellectual freedom but also add an important perspective on this emerging superpower.

Author : R Dennis Shelby,Desiree Ciambrone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781135420703

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Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS by R Dennis Shelby,Desiree Ciambrone Pdf

Meet the women behind the statistics! Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: Mending Fractured Selves examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on women, the fastest-growing subgroup of the HIV-infected population of the United States. Based on interviews with HIV-infected women, the book gives voice to their experiences. This powerful text offers a firsthand view of what it is like to live day-to-day as a woman with the added burden of HIV/AIDS. Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is a powerful and compelling look at the day-to-day struggles of 37 women infected with HIV. Their stories detail their ongoing efforts—with varying degrees of success—to come to grips with the disease as they try to rebuild their lives. Through qualitative analysis, the book demonstrates the importance of relational resources, such as AIDS activism, support groups, and social support. It also addresses potential problems for women associated with caregiving and presents ethnographic research findings on the complex factors that affect women with HIV (socioeconomic status, sexual preference, lifestyle differences). Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS also addresses research topics such as: how HIV infection affects a woman's sense of self how women repair disruption and restore identities the limits to women's coping strategies and whether those strategies still work if women become functionally impaired or develop AIDS how women's structural and social environments facilitate or impede repair the role of women's informal networks in biological disruption and repair A rare look at the experience of women infected with HIV (most studies focus on male samples), Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS is an invaluable academic resource as a course supplement in the fields of medical sociology, women's studies, public health, and community health, and is an enlightening read for everyone interested in HIV/AIDS research.

Author : Beth Schneider,Nancy E. Stoller
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-27
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781566392693

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Women Resisting AIDS by Beth Schneider,Nancy E. Stoller Pdf

This collection of original essays discusses the increasingly rapid spread of AIDS among women, considering the varying experiences and responses of women of color, lesbians, and economically impoverished women. The essays range widely from policy assessments to case studies, focusing on women as sufferers, caretakers, policy activists, community organizers, and educators.

Author : Carole A. Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521566797

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Women, Families and HIV/AIDS by Carole A. Campbell Pdf

Carole Campbell examines the position of women in the AIDS epidemic (women living with HIV, and women caring for HIV-infected family members) in a sociocultural context. Campbell draws a connection among women's risk of AIDS, gender roles (particularly adolescent gender role socialization), and male sexual behavior, demonstrating that efforts to contain the spread of the disease to females must also target the male behavior that puts women at risk. This study concludes that compared with men, HIV-infected women face unequal access to care and unequal quality of care. Informed by the moving personal accounts of eleven HIV-infected men and women, this book offers a rare, broad picture of the sociocultural causes and the impact on American society of AIDS among women.

Author : Patricia A Lather
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429983054

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Troubling The Angels by Patricia A Lather Pdf

Based on an interview study of 25 Ohio women in HIV/AIDS support groups, this is a study of how the women make sense of the disease in their lives. The book combines data, method, analysis and interpretation.

Author : Jean Anderson (Gynecologist)
Publisher : HIV/AIDS Bureau
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:39015050247272

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A Guide to the Clinical Care of Women with HIV by Jean Anderson (Gynecologist) Pdf

Author : Ann O'Leary,Loretta Sweet Jemmott
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0306450410

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Women at Risk: Issues in the Primary Prevention of AIDS by Ann O'Leary,Loretta Sweet Jemmott Pdf

Women comprise the group that is rapidly becoming infected with HIV, and while some prevention efforts show signs of promise, many unresolved issues remain. This pivotal volume presents up-to-date research findings, offering an in-depth look into issues germane to preventing AIDS in women. Eminent researchers and health care providers focus on specific groups of women based on ethnicity, relationship factors, and behavior.

Author : Gena Corea
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015021584761

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The Invisible Epidemic by Gena Corea Pdf

The dramatic, timely, and previously untold story of women and the AIDS epidemic--a report that reveals the startling truth behind the statistics and the experiences of the many women at the forefront of AIDS activism, prevention, and caretaking.

Author : Lynellyn Long,E. M. Ankrah
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 023110605X

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Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS by Lynellyn Long,E. M. Ankrah Pdf

Contributors discuss the differences between women within and across cultures and how local attitudes and traditions can affect the prevention of, or vulnerability to, HIV / AIDS.

Author : Ezekiel Kalipeni,Karen Coen Flynn,Cynthia Pope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : UOM:39076002808900

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Strong Women, Dangerous Times by Ezekiel Kalipeni,Karen Coen Flynn,Cynthia Pope Pdf

HIV/AIDS is holding firm as one of the worst diseases in history and the leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa. This collection of essays shares various case studies from sub-Saharan Africa and one from the African Diaspora that demonstrate how multi-faceted women's lives, and thus their HIV risk, are. Notwithstanding women's marginalisation, the essays in this volume maintain that women in Africa are not merely puppets of globalisation, cultural norms, or biological imperatives, but rather agents in their own livelihoods. In each case we see women presented with many challenges that they must navigate in order to mitigate their HIV risk. Some of the most trying challenges are based on economic and political structures that occur at various scales, from the global to the household. While structural factors are indeed important, the authors in this volume also show that traditional norms, cultural beliefs, and gender roles are equally necessary to consider when planning HIV prevention programs. Gender disempowerment is of particular importance, as it is seen in all of these case studies. In order for the HIV epidemic to dissipate in sub-Saharan Africa, prevention programs that truly understand the local circumstances and strive for gender equality must be instituted immediately and broadly. The book is divided into three parts, each concentrating on a different aspect of women and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. The first part provides case studies of the social, political, economic, cultural, and geographic dynamics that play into women's and girls' risk for the virus. The second part transitions into case studies of prevention, concentrating on condom use. The chapters in the final section expand on Part II by highlighting other ways of promoting HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention across the region. In short, the papers in this volume highlight the complicated decision making processes that women in countries of sub-Saharan Africa must make when it comes to HIV risk. In many cases, women find themselves in economically dependent relationships with men whereby they must stay in sexually risky situations to be able to feed themselves and, very often, their children.