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"We, the AIDS people...": How antiretroviral therapy enables Zimbabweans living with HIV/AIDS to cope with stigma

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  • Campbell, C.
  • Skovdal, M.
  • Madanhire, C.
  • Mugurungi, O.
  • Gregson, S.
  • Nyamukapa, C.

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We studied the impact of antiretroviral treatment availability on HIV/AIDS stigma through interviews with 118 antiretroviral treatment users, HIV/AIDS caregivers, and nurses in Zimbabwe. Treatment enables positive social and economic participation through which users can begin to reconstruct their shattered sense of social value. However, stigma remains strong, and antiretroviral treatment users remain mired in conflictual symbolic relationships between the HIV/AIDS people and the untested. To date, the restoration of users' own sense of self-worth through treatment has not reduced fear and sexual embarrassment in framing community responses to people living with HIV/AIDS. Much remains to be learned about the complex interaction of economic and psychosocial dimensions of poverty, treatment availability, and conservative sexual moralities in driving HIV/AIDS stigma in specific settings.

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  • Campbell, C. & Skovdal, M. & Madanhire, C. & Mugurungi, O. & Gregson, S. & Nyamukapa, C., 2011. ""We, the AIDS people...": How antiretroviral therapy enables Zimbabweans living with HIV/AIDS to cope with stigma," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 101(6), pages 1004-1010.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2010.202838_6
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2010.202838
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    1. Naydene De Lange & Claudia Mitchell, 2012. "Community Health Workers Working the Digital Archive: A Case for Looking at Participatory Archiving in Studying Stigma in the Context of HIV and AIDS," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 17(1), pages 13-28, February.
    2. Mattes, Dominik, 2014. "“Life is not a rehearsal, it's a performance”: An ethnographic enquiry into the subjectivities of children and adolescents living with antiretroviral treatment in northeastern Tanzania," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 28-37.

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