'My fear is to fall in love again...' How HIV-positive African women survive in London
'My fear is to fall in love again...' How HIV-positive African women survive in London
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.08.041
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发表时间：
2005-04-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Anderson, J
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作者：
Doyal, L;Anderson, J
许多研究正在记录世界不同地区艾滋病毒/艾滋病感染者的情况。在撒哈拉以南非洲国家，妇女占感染者的大多数，我们对她们的经历了解得越来越多。然而，很少有研究人员调查了该地区感染艾滋病毒的女性移民的生活。本文通过探讨来自非洲不同地区的62名妇女在伦敦接受国民保健服务治疗的情况，开始填补这一空白。它是基于2001年至2002年间进行的一项定性研究，采用半结构化访谈。该分析探讨了妇女的生活是如何以复杂的方式被她们的性别和社会性别、她们的移民身份和她们的血清阳性反应所塑造的。它审查了他们的生存战略的性质，主要侧重于信息的管理、保健服务的使用和精神在他们生活中的重要性。文章最后强调了一个悖论，即这些妇女可以获得在自己国家无法获得的治疗，但她们的生存取决于她们是否留在一个很少有人认为是“家”的国家。(c) 2004年Elsevier Ltd出版
Many studies are now documenting the circumstances of people living with HIV/AIDS in different parts of the world. We know an increasing amount about the experiences of women who make up the majority of those infected in countries in sub-Saharan Africa. However, very few researchers have examined the lives of female migrants from the region living with HIV. This article begins to fill that gap by exploring the situation of 62 women from different parts of Africa receiving treatment from the National Health Service in London. It is based on a qualitative study carried out between 2001 and 2002 using semi-structured interviews. The analysis explores the ways in which the women's lives are shaped in complex ways by their sex and gender, by their status as migrants and by their seropositivity. It examines the nature of their survival strategies, focusing mainly on the management of information, the use of health services and the importance of spirituality in their lives. The article concludes by highlighting the paradox whereby these women have access to treatment that would be unavailable in their own countries but their survival depends on them remaining in a country which few regard as 'home'. (c) 2004 Published by Elsevier Ltd.