Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: An International Perspective / Edition 1

by Lynellyn D. Long, E. Ankrah

Overview

HIV/AIDS affects women worldwide. Elderly women bear a disproportionate burden of caring for those who are afflicted with the disease, while young women increasingly comprise the majority of new HIV cases. Intervention programs often fail to take into account the particular situations and behaviors that make women more vulnerable than men. Though policy debates increasingly include women and gender considerations, funds and resources for women, especially those already suffering with HIV/AIDS, remain inadequate.

Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS gives voice to the experience of individual women whose personal stories reveal the daily struggles and concerns that fill their lives, but are ignored in the larger dialogues about HIV/AIDS. Women and men from diverse backgrounds discuss the differences between women within and across cultures and how particular traditions and attitudes can affect the prevention of, or vulnerability to, HIV/AIDS. The authors address not only women's empirical experiences, but also their personal feelings, beliefs, and expectations as reflected in their narratives.

Approaching the issue from several disciplines, Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS paves the way for the empowerment of women by bringing them directly into the debates concerned with their protection against HIV/AIDS. This collection, edited by two well-known scholars in this field, provides a much-needed critical examination of the interventions and policies that do not yet fully address the needs and limitations of women and girls suffering with, or confronting the possibility of, infection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231106054
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	01/17/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

LYNELLYN D. LONG is the Population Council's Representative in Vietnam and an adjunct faculty member of The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

E. MAXINE ANKRAH is the associate director for the AIDSCAP Women's Initiative of Family Health International (FHI)

Table of Contents

, by Peter Lamptey
Counting Women's Experiences, by Lynellyn D. Long
Living With HIV/AIDS
Negative in the Beginning, Positive in the End, by Christine Thomas (With Lynellyn D. Long)
I Have a Life, I Will Live, by Anonymous
Women Who Sleep With Women, by Joyce Hunter & Priscilla Alexander
HIV/AIDS: A Personal Perspective, by Debbie Runions
Economic and Sociocultural Perspectives
Making a Living: Women Who Go Out, by Priscilla Alexander
Bargaining for Life: Women and the AIDS Epidemic in Haiti, by Priscilla R. Ulin, Michel Cayemittes, and Robert Gringle
The Socioeconomic Impact of AIDS on Women in Tanzania, by Anne Outwater
I'm Not Afraid of Life or Death: Women in Brothels in Northern Thailand, by Katherine C. Bond, David D. Delentiano, and Chayan Vaddhanaphuti
Women's Social Representation of Sex, Sexuality, and AIDS in Brazil, by Luiza Klein-Alonso
The Impact of Structural Adjustment Programs on Women and AIDS, by Mubina Hassanali Kirmani and Dorothy Munyakho
Issues and Concerns
The Epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in Women, by Jeanine M. Buzy and Helens D. Gayle
Sexually Transmitted Diseases as Catalysts of HIV/AIDS in Women, by Barbara Parker and David W. Patterson
HIV and Breast-feeding: Informed Choice in the Face of Medical Ambiguity, by Chloe O'Gara and Anna C. Martin
Women, Children, and HIV/AIDS, by Carrie Auer
Care and Support Systems, by E. Maxine Ankrah, Martin Schwartz, and Jaclyn Miller
Promising Directions
Dilemmas for Women in the Second Decade, by Elizabeth A. Preble and Galia D. Siegel
Women Educating Women for HIV/AIDS Prevention, by Kathleen Cash
Talking About Sex: A Prerequisitie for AIDS Prevention, by Geeta Rao Gupta, Ellen Weiss, and Purnima Mane
Challenges for the Development of Female-Controlled Vaginal Microbicides, by Christopher J. Elias and Lor L. Heise
The Ethics of Social and Behavioral Research on Women and AIDS, by Carl Kendall
What Next? A Policy Agenda, by E. Maxine Ankrah and Lynellyn D. Long

Editorial Reviews

Startling and powerful accounts of the impact of HIV/AIDS on women's lives... highly recommended.

Archives of Sexual Behavior - Emily van der Meulen

Startling and powerful accounts of the impact of HIV/AIDS on women's lives... highly recommended.

— Emily van der Meulen

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Provides a decidedly feminist perspective on the issue of HIV / AIDS. The editors have gathered an eclectic group of contributors, balanced along the lines of gender and discipline. All chapters are well-written, provocative, and challenging. . . . Two major perspectives are represented by the book as a whole: health care professional and personal lived-experienced. . . . Throughout, gender inequities about this unique disease and its management are addressed in powerful ways.

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