Illness, stigma, and AIDS.

Herek, Gregory M.

doi:10.1037/10076-003

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“…Thus, they agreed only partially with results obtained from previous clinical and sociological writing in which HIV is life changing and life shaping, sometimes even a condition that emblematizes the reflexive reconstruction of the self under late modernity (Crossley 1997;Heaphy 1996;Herek 1990;King 1995;O'Brien 1992;Remien and Rabkin 1995;Seale 1995;Schwartzberg 1993). Interviewees produced some stories that fit with such accounts.…”

Section: The "Self" As Strategic Resistancesupporting

confidence: 85%

“Neighbors Who Might Become Friends”: Selves, Genres, and Citizenship in Narratives of HIV

Squire

1999

The Sociological Quarterly

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HIV is a condition that seems powerfully to define identities and communities. In some cases it appears to have generated new, culturally and politically radical forms of both. Drawing on a series of interviews over two to three years with people infected or affected by HIV, this article examines how interviewees describe their communities and identities as determined by HIV, though in partial, limited ways. The article explores how the “self” operates in the interviews, not as a consistent, reflexive project but as an occasional, situated resistance. I argue that the narrative form of the interviews was what enabled provisional, variable identities and communities to be articulated. The “coming out” genre was widely deployed to describe negotiating HIV stigma and fatality, as well as accepting and to some extent disengaging from serostatus. This genre's allowance of incompleteness also gave a place to HIV's abjection, to horrors that cannot be storied into subjective meaningfulness. Finally, the article looks at how, rather than focusing on identities or communities, interviewees told stories of citizenship, of subject positions shaped by neighborhood, national and transnational, as much as individual or group concerns.

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Section: The "Self" As Strategic Resistancesupporting

confidence: 85%

“Neighbors Who Might Become Friends”: Selves, Genres, and Citizenship in Narratives of HIV

Squire

1999

The Sociological Quarterly

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“…It also has impaired society's ability to provide treatment to people with AIDS and to prevent further transmission of HIV [1][2][3][4] The research described here measured the pervasiveness of stigmatizing attitudes and beliefs concerning AIDS …”

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Public reactions to AIDS in the United States: a second decade of stigma.

Herek¹,

Capitanio²

1993

Am J Public Health

267

162

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InftducionThe stigma associated with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has threatened the physical and psychological well-being of people perceived to be infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (H1V). It also has impaired society's ability to provide treatment to people with AIDS and to prevent further transmission of HIV 1-4 The research described here measured the pervasiveness of stigmatizing attitudes and beliefs concerning AIDS Tables 3 and 4. For comparison purposes, the responses from Whites in the general adult sample (n = 436) are also presented. Because different methods were used to draw the samples, these comparisons should be interpreted with caution.It appears that Blacks were more concerned about possible transmission of HIV, whereas Whites held more negative feelings toward persons with AIDS. Blacks expressed greater support for measures that would keep people with AIDS separate from others (quarantine, publishing names) and were more likely to say that they would avoid people with AIDS under various circumstances. In line with this pattern, Blacks also were more likely to overestimate the risk of HIV transmission in a variety of situations; this finding is consistent with data from other survey research.6 Whites, in contrast, expressed more negative feelings toward persons with AIDS and a greater willingness to blame them for their illness.To assess overall trends in these differences, five Likert-type scales7 were constructed by summing responses to conceptually related items. Scale scores were analyzed with two-way analyses of covariance; race (Black, White) and gender (female, male) were the independent variables. Respondents' highest level of formal education (coded on a six-point ordinal scale) was entered as a covariate.Comparison of the scale scores (Table 5) confirmed the general pattern observed for the individual items. Blacks scored significantly higher than Whites on the coercive policies scale, whereas Whites scored higher on the negative feelings scale and the individual blame item. Blacks also scored significantly higher on both scales measuring beliefs about HIV transmission. A significant racial difference was not observed for the avoidant behaviors scale.As shown in Table 5 DisusionThe results indicate that AIDS-related stigma remains a serious problem as the United States enters the second decade of the epidemic. Reducing stigma and fostering compassion toward personswith AIDS should be integral components of AIDS education and prevention programs. [

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“…This study revealed that 82 percent were not aware they were infected until a later time and most denied they were at risk for HIV in their lifetime [18,19]. The study revealed how homophobia plays a determinant in preventing black MSM from understanding their risk for HIV, or avoiding HIV prevention and testing plus treatment and care services.…”

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confidence: 91%

A literature review of issues affecting PrEP Education and Implementation in racism mistrust in black communities (HIV/AIDS)

Cazeau¹,

Jackson²,

Theodore³

et al. 2017

Integr Mol Med

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Background: Racism in black communities has complicated diagnosis and treatment of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Individuals most affected by HIV are also most disadvantaged in terms of race and economic status. Sixty percent of all new HIV infections take place among young black MSM between the ages 13 to 29, which explains why AIDS has been cast as a social and not bio-medical problem. Most of them will live in disbelief that they could be at risk for HIV, and so are reluctant to try new preventative treatments such as PrEP.

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Illness, stigma, and AIDS.

Abstract: My comments on the history and usage of the word stigma are based on the 1971 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), p. 954.

Cited by 63 publications

References 73 publications

“Neighbors Who Might Become Friends”: Selves, Genres, and Citizenship in Narratives of HIV

“Neighbors Who Might Become Friends”: Selves, Genres, and Citizenship in Narratives of HIV

Public reactions to AIDS in the United States: a second decade of stigma.

A literature review of issues affecting PrEP Education and Implementation in racism mistrust in black communities (HIV/AIDS)

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