'To tell or not to tell'
HIV Disclosure, Stigma and Denial in a South African township
(Sprache: Englisch)
Disclosure of HIV status can play an important role in promoting health and well-being of people living with HIV/AIDS, and in prevention. This potential is limited by low disclosure levels,as well as a preference for a partial and delayed disclosure. This...
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Disclosure of HIV status can play an important role in promoting health and well-being of people living with HIV/AIDS, and in prevention. This potential is limited by low disclosure levels,as well as a preference for a partial and delayed disclosure. This book identifies HIV stigma as a key factor in low disclosure levels and a preference for partial disclosure, in a disadvantaged South African township. It suggests that HIV stigma is based on a conceptualization of HIV/AIDS as a highly contagious, deadly, incurable, and poorly understood disease, and should primarily be understood as a defensive denial of risk against a threat, which the community perceives to be vulnerable to. It also argues that social marginalization in post-apartheid South Africa has contributed to this sense of vulnerability, and thus to stigma. An ambivalent political response during Thabo Mbeki's presidency contributed to a reluctance to disclose as well as exacerbated HIV stigma. The book suggests that HIV stigma should be addressed through tackling symbolic and instrumental stigma,and through replacing the association between HIV/AIDS and death with a discourse of hope.
Autoren-Porträt von Hanne Jensen Haricharan
Haricharan, Hanne JensenHanne Jensen Haricharan has a MA in Danish from AarhusUniversity Denmark, a MSc in Journalism from ColumbiaUniversity, New York, and a MA in Social Anthropology from theUniversity of Cape Town. She is currently a researcher at the Health and Human Rights Division at The School of Public Health, University of Cape Town.
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- Autor: Hanne Jensen Haricharan
- 2010, 92 Seiten, Maße: 22 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
- ISBN-10: 3838352564
- ISBN-13: 9783838352565
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Englisch
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