TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bohle, Leah Franziska,
AB  - “She was given her own plate, her own cup, everything of her own, even when she just touched a cloth then nobody wanted to touch it again.” (Halima, HIV-seropositive) The book sheds light on the profound influence of an HIV-seropositive diagnosis on the lives of women and their social environment in the United Republic of Tanzania. The author, a medical doctor and social anthropologist, tells the story of six Tanzanian HIV-seropositive women, focusing on their negotiation and perception of illness and disease. Furthermore, the high levels of discrimination and stigmatization in the context of HIV-seropositivity that they experience are presented in detail, weaving together the impacts of an HIV-seropositive diagnosis with results analyzed both from a Medical Anthropology and Public Health perspective. Despite a new era of antiretroviral treatment, available in Tanzania free of cost, that has given cause for hope in a change in how the disease is perceived, the book impressively underlines that being HIV-seropositive remains a great challenge and heavy burden for women in Tanzania.
AB  - “She was given her own plate, her own cup, everything of her own, even when she just touched a cloth then nobody wanted to touch it again.” (Halima, HIV-seropositive) The book sheds light on the profound influence of an HIV-seropositive diagnosis on the lives of women and their social environment in the United Republic of Tanzania. The author, a medical doctor and social anthropologist, tells the story of six Tanzanian HIV-seropositive women, focusing on their negotiation and perception of illness and disease. Furthermore, the high levels of discrimination and stigmatization in the context of HIV-seropositivity that they experience are presented in detail, weaving together the impacts of an HIV-seropositive diagnosis with results analyzed both from a Medical Anthropology and Public Health perspective. Despite a new era of antiretroviral treatment, available in Tanzania free of cost, that has given cause for hope in a change in how the disease is perceived, the book impressively underlines that being HIV-seropositive remains a great challenge and heavy burden for women in Tanzania.
DO  - 10.17875/gup2013-289
ID  - OAPEN ID: 610259
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1030817448
KW  - HIV
KW  - Women
KW  - Tanzania
KW  - Social Environment
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Discrimination
KW  - HIV/AIDS
KW  - Infection
KW  - Medical anthropology
KW  - Serostatus
KW  - Tanga
KW  - Tanzania
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/f0a226c0-9957-4410-9349-74568f519714/Bohle_Discrimination.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37279
PB  - Universitätsverlag Göttingen
PY  - 2013
SN  - 9783863951085
TI  - Stigmatization, discrimination and illnessnull
ER  - 
