Bridging the knowledge gap of biomedical HIV prevention tools among sub-saharan african immigrants in France. Results from an empowerment-based intervention

Coulibaly, Karna; Bousmah, Marwân-al-Qays; Ravalihasy, Andrainolo; Taéron, Corinne; Mbiribindi, Romain; Senne, Jean-Noël; Gubert, Flore; Gosselin, Anne; Loû, Annabel Desgrées du

doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101468

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“…Many participants have heard of the feasibility of assisted reproductive technologies (such as sperm washing, in vitro fertilization) but noted their inability to afford them. Other participants have also heard that PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) and PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) may offer new hopes for preventing HIV, especially among those who are in serodiscordant or other sexually risky relationships [ 72 , 73 ], but have little understanding of how it works, its availability, or how to overcome the stigma and other misconceptions surrounding its use [ 74 , 75 , 76 ]. Some participants pointed out that their doctors and other professionals became partners in helping them conceive and have children safely.…”

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The Effect of Stigma and Social Networks on Role Expectations among African Immigrants Living with HIV

Koku

2024

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This paper examines how African immigrants living with HIV negotiate and reconstruct their productive (i.e., educational and career opportunities), sexual, and reproductive identities. We used data from a mixed-methods study to explore how stigma and social networks in which participants were embedded shaped how they understood and negotiated their role expectations and responsibilities. Participants revealed how HIV not only changed their identities and limited their sex life, partner choices, and fundamental decisions about fertility and reproduction, but also presented them with the opportunity to reinvent/reshape their lives. Our analysis revealed that the cultural discourses about illness and HIV in participant’s countries of origin, the acculturative and migratory stressors, and the competing influences and expectations from family and friends in their home and host countries shape their illness experience, and how they adjust to life with HIV. This paper builds on sociological understanding of illness experience as a social construct that shapes the ill person’s identity, role, and function in society. Specifically, the paper contributes to discourses on how (i) participants’ social location and identity (as transnational migrants adjusting to acculturative stressors associated with resettlement into a new country), (ii) cultural discourses about illness and HIV in their countries of origin, and (iii) embeddedness in transnational social networks influence health outcomes, including lived experiences with chronic illnesses and stigmatized conditions such as HIV.

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The Effect of Stigma and Social Networks on Role Expectations among African Immigrants Living with HIV

Koku

2024

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L’évaluateur et l’évaluation d’impact d’une intervention comme levier potentiel de l’empowerment au niveau communautaire : un exercice réflexif à partir de l’intervention MAKASI

Ravalihasy

2024

Glob Health Promot

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Bridging the knowledge gap of biomedical HIV prevention tools among sub-saharan african immigrants in France. Results from an empowerment-based intervention

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The Effect of Stigma and Social Networks on Role Expectations among African Immigrants Living with HIV

The Effect of Stigma and Social Networks on Role Expectations among African Immigrants Living with HIV

L’évaluateur et l’évaluation d’impact d’une intervention comme levier potentiel de l’empowerment au niveau communautaire : un exercice réflexif à partir de l’intervention MAKASI

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