South African Women Living with HIV: Global Lessons from Local Voices
- ISBN-10
- 0253010705
- ISBN-13
- 9780253010704
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 176
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-12-13
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Authors
- Floretta Boonzaier, Anna Aulette-Root, Judy Aulette
Description
Based on interviews with women who are HIV positive, this sobering pandemic brings to light the deeply rooted and complex problems of living with HIV. Already pushed to the edges of society by poverty, racial politics, and gender injustice, women with HIV in South Africa have found ways to cope with work and men, disclosure of their HIV status, and care for families and children to create a sense of normalcy in their lives. As women take control of their treatment, they help to determine effective routes to ending the spread of the disease.
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