Women Living with HIV in India: Looking up from a Place of Stigma, Identifying Nexus Sites for Change

• Published in: Diversity and equality in health and care Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 159 - 166
• Main Authors: Short, Wendy E, Vissandjee, Bilkis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Milton Keynes IMedPub 01.01.2017
• Subjects: Antiretroviral drugs; Behavior; Biomedicine; Biopsychosocial aspects; Change agents; Chronic illnesses; Gender; Goffman, Erving (1922-1982); Health care; HIV; Human immunodeficiency virus; Infections; Intersectionality; Marginality; Medical tests; Power; Psychological support; Quality of life; Social construction; Stigma; Tuberculosis; Women; Womens health; India

For women living with HIV infection in India, stigma is a pervasive reality and the greatest barrier to accessing treatment, quality of life and survival. Defining stigma according to Goffman as a socially conceived abnormality, this paper then draws on Engel’s biopsychosocial model for chronic dise...