Stigmatization, discrimination and illness

Stigmatization, discrimination and illness

Public health

“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.

Bohle, Leah Franziska

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39348

Universitätsverlag Göttingen

2013

Sukma Kartikasari

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

PDF

English

Textbooks

DOI: 10.17875/gup2013-289

ISBN: 978-3-86395-108-5

Public Health