2013
DOI: 10.1177/1757975912462422
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‘No one knows what will happen after these five years’: narratives of ART, access and agency in Nigeria

Abstract: Rural Nigerians pursue a range of strategies to maximize current and future access to HIV treatment in the context of securing livelihoods and minimizing the social and economic risks of stigma. This study reports on qualitative interviews with service providers and anti-retroviral therapy (ART) patients accessing care in Benue State, Nigeria, or travelling several hours to Abuja for treatment (n = 34). Nigerians living with HIV are keenly aware of the fragility and complex global and local politics of funding… Show more

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“…This finding suggests that the social psychology of HIV stigma, and its relative weighting on the sociopolitical/economic, sociomoral, and disease avoidance dimensions that Parker (11) and Phelan and colleagues (23) identify, needs further analysis in specific social and cultural contexts. Stigma against non-family members was reported as both intense and pervasive and was linked both in our study and in other recent work in Nigeria (24) to public morality and, especially, to security of employment and livelihood. These reports of concurrent social inclusion and exclusion within a community suggests to us an affectively and morally charged context where family loyalty with both material and personal support is in dynamic tension with a rigidly enforced public morality involving fear of moral and physical contagion, and pervasive economic and livelihood competition and insecurity.…”
Section: Discussion and Implications For Policy And Practicesupporting
confidence: 79%
“…This finding suggests that the social psychology of HIV stigma, and its relative weighting on the sociopolitical/economic, sociomoral, and disease avoidance dimensions that Parker (11) and Phelan and colleagues (23) identify, needs further analysis in specific social and cultural contexts. Stigma against non-family members was reported as both intense and pervasive and was linked both in our study and in other recent work in Nigeria (24) to public morality and, especially, to security of employment and livelihood. These reports of concurrent social inclusion and exclusion within a community suggests to us an affectively and morally charged context where family loyalty with both material and personal support is in dynamic tension with a rigidly enforced public morality involving fear of moral and physical contagion, and pervasive economic and livelihood competition and insecurity.…”
Section: Discussion and Implications For Policy And Practicesupporting
confidence: 79%
“…Pour rester dans le domaine de l’interaction des politiques mondiales (et des capacités des organismes mondiaux à offrir ou à retirer l’argent et le traitement) avec la vraie vie et la réalité du VIH, la stigmatisation et la survie, Omenka et Zarowsky (6) décrivent de nouvelles formes de vulnérabilité à l’époque des traitements antirétroviraux, mais également de nouvelles formes de résilience et de libre-arbitre démontrées par des Nigérians qui s’efforcent de maintenir l’accès aux ressources sociales, médicales et financières susceptibles de leur permettre de survivre avec le VIH, même si le PEPFAR ou le Fonds Mondial se retirent.…”
Section: Un Nouveau Regard Sur La Vulnérabilitéunclassified
“…Siguiendo en el terreno de la interacción de las políticas mundiales (y la capacidad de los organismos mundiales de ofrecer recursos económicos o tratamiento o de retirarlos) con los entornos subjetivos y la realidad del VIH, el estigma y la supervivencia, Omanka y Zarowsky (6) describen nuevas formas de vulnerabilidad en la era de los ART, pero también nuevas formas de resiliencia y de actuación que han demostrado los nigerianos en su lucha por mantener el acceso a los recursos sociales, médicos y económicos que les permitirán sobrevivir con el VIH, aunque PEPFAR o Global Fund retirasen su apoyo.…”
Section: Una Acepción Nueva De Vulnerabilidadunclassified