Stigmatization, discrimination and illness : experiences among HIV-seropositive women in Tanga, Tanzania / Leah Franziska Bohle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bohle, Leah Franziska, author.

Series:

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

HIV-positive women--Tanzania--Tanga.

HIV-positive women.

HIV infections--Social aspects--Tanzania.

HIV infections.

Discrimination--Tanzania.

Discrimination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (119 pages) : illustrations (some colour); digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2013

Göttingen : Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2013.

Language Note:

Text in English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

“She was given her own plate, her own cup, everything of her own, even when she just touched a cloth then nobody wanted to touch it again.” (Halima, HIV-seropositive) The book sheds light on the profound influence of an HIV-seropositive diagnosis on the lives of women and their social environment in the United Republic of Tanzania. The author, a medical doctor and social anthropologist, tells the story of six Tanzanian HIV-seropositive women, focusing on their negotiation and perception of illness and disease. Furthermore, the high levels of discrimination and stigmatization in the context of HIV-seropositivity that they experience are presented in detail, weaving together the impacts of an HIV-seropositive diagnosis with results analyzed both from a Medical Anthropology and Public Health perspective. Despite a new era of antiretroviral treatment, available in Tanzania free of cost, that has given cause for hope in a change in how the disease is perceived, the book impressively underlines that being HIV-seropositive remains a great challenge and heavy burden for women in Tanzania.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Medical anthropology

2. Illness and disease - inequal substitutes

3. Stigmatization and discrimination - an explanatory approach

4. HIV & AIDS

5. The research study

6. Methodology

7. Results

8. Interpretation of the results

9. Conclusion and the way forward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [103]-113)

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Print version:

ISBN:

9783863951085

OCLC:

908083572