Stigmatization, discrimination and illness : experiences among HIV-seropositive women in Tanga, Tanzania / / Leah Franziska Bohle
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| Autore: |
Bohle Leah Franziska
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| Titolo: |
Stigmatization, discrimination and illness : experiences among HIV-seropositive women in Tanga, Tanzania / / Leah Franziska Bohle
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| Pubblicazione: | Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2013 |
| Göttingen : , : Universitätsverlag Göttingen, , 2013 | |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (119 pages) : illustrations (some colour); digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 616.9792 |
| Soggetto topico: | HIV-positive women - Tanzania - Tanga |
| HIV infections - Social aspects - Tanzania | |
| Discrimination - Tanzania | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | HIV |
| Women | |
| Tanzania | |
| Social Environment | |
| Public Health | |
| Discrimination | |
| HIV/AIDS | |
| Infection | |
| Medical anthropology | |
| Serostatus | |
| Tanga | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [103]-113) |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | “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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Stigmatization, discrimination and illness |
| ISBN: | 9783863951085 |
| 3863951085 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910140190903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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