Support Groups, Marriage, and the Management of Ambiguity among HIV-Positive Women in Northern Nigeria
Support Groups, Marriage, and the Management of Ambiguity among HIV-Positive Women in Northern Nigeria
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DOI：
10.1353/anq.0.0067
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发表时间：
2009-03-01
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0.9
通讯作者：
Rhine, Kathryn A.
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作者：
Rhine, Kathryn A.
在非洲艾滋病毒流行病的背景下，支助团体不仅仅是讨论社会和健康福祉的场所;它们也不是仅仅培养自我负责和经济上有能力的病人的机构。尼日利亚北方的艾滋病毒抗体阳性妇女已成立了一个支助小组，为她们的婚姻安排提供便利。在这个群体中，妇女通过我所说的管理围绕其艾滋病毒状况的模糊性来谈判耻辱的威胁和体面婚姻的承诺。我进一步认为，实践中的支持组配对揭示了当地的政治经济动态，塑造社会和疾病的轨迹，在资源匮乏的环境。
In the context of the African HIV epidemic, support groups are not simply spaces for discussions of social and health well-being; neither are they institutions functioning solely to cultivate self-responsible and economically empowered patients. HIV-positive women in northern Nigeria have appropriated a support group to facilitate their marriage arrangements. In this group, women negotiate the threats of stigma and the promises of respectable marriage through what I call the management of ambiguity surrounding their HIV status. I further argue that the practice of support group matchmaking reveals the local political economic dynamics that shape social and illness trajectories in resource-poor settings.