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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Couples with Mixed HIV Status: Beyond Positive/Negative

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Editors:
  1. Asha Persson

    1. Centre for Social Research in Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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  2. Shana D. Hughes

    1. Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, USA

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  • The first in-depth, cross-cultural book focused on couples living with mixed HIV status
  • Demystifies a highly stigmatized and little understood population in the global HIV epidemic
  • Provides original and empirically grounded insights into the cultural interplay of illness, intimacy, gender, and biomedicine in diverse settings with relevance beyond HIV
  • Provides new and unique ways to conceptualize serodiscordance

Part of the book series: Social Aspects of HIV (SHIV, volume 2)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Introduction: Making “Difference”: New Perspectives on HIV Serodiscordance

    • Asha Persson, Shana D. Hughes
    Pages 1-12

  3. Biomedicine, Change & Diversity: Conceptualising Serodiscordance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. The Science Made Me Do It! A Journey Toward Reimagining Myself as Non-infectious: Serodiscordant Sexuality in the Age of TasP

      • Pluto Savage
      Pages 15-21

    3. “PrEP Makes My Relationship Even More Normal:” The Discursive Production of Hope in the Context of HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Among Young Adults with Partners Living with HIV Infection

      • Kimberly A. Koester, Xavier A. Erguera, Janet J. Myers
      Pages 23-35

    4. Seeking Seroharmony: Changing Conceptualisations of Serodifference and Serostatus

      • John Rule, Sean Slavin
      Pages 37-54

    5. HIV Serodiscordant Couples and the Discourse of Normality: Reconciling the Biomedical and the Social in Porto Alegre, Brazil

      • Shana D. Hughes
      Pages 55-69

    6. Situating Serodiscordance: Living in Relationships with Mixed HIV Status in Different Local, Historical and Biomedical Realities

      • Angela Kelly-Hanku
      Pages 71-83

    7. Exploring the Relational Complexity of Serodiscordance: Negotiating Violence, Temporality and Diaspora

      • Annette-Carina van der Zaag, Ulla McKnight
      Pages 85-98

  4. Stigma, Culture & Gender: Contextualising Serodiscordance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Sunshine After the Rain & Red Reminds Me

      • Stacy Jennings
      Pages 101-105

    3. Be the Change You Want to See

      • Jyoti Dhawale-Surve
      Pages 107-110

    4. Intimacy, Support and Social Connectivity: Experiences of HIV Serodiscordant Relationships Among Black African People Living in England

      • Adam Bourne, John Owuor, Catherine Dodds
      Pages 111-124

    5. Stigma, Sex and Family Life: Serodiscordance in Henan Province, China

      • M. Kumi Smith, Huixin Liu, Junjue Wang, Wensheng He, Gail E. Henderson, William C. Miller et al.
      Pages 125-138

    6. Reconciling Serodiscordance: Lived Experiences of Mixed HIV-Status Relationships in Ethiopia

      • Yordanos M. Tiruneh, Yemane Berhane, Ira B. Wilson
      Pages 139-152

    7. Dialectics of Gender and Health: The Case of HIV Serodiscordance in Uganda

      • Robert Wyrod
      Pages 153-169

    8. Planning to Be a Parent in HIV Sero-Different Relationships: A Critical Gender Analysis

      • Carmel Kelly, Maria Lohan
      Pages 171-183

    9. Serodiscordance and Gender Dynamics in Indian Culture

      • Sangeeta Sharma Dhaor
      Pages 185-199

  5. Love, Risk & Relationships: Negotiating Serodiscordance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201
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    2. Treatment as Prevention: A Love Story

      • Caroline Watson
      Pages 203-207
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About this book

This edited volume presents a detailed portrait of couples living with mixed HIV status, where one partner is HIV-positive and the other negative. Readers will come to understand the various and complex ways in which these mixed-status, or serodiscordant couples build a life together within the shadow of HIV-related stigma. Spanning the globe, coverage explores serodiscordance as a negotiated practice and process, inseparable from the social context in which it is situated. The book shows how couples draw on diverse and sometimes contradictory cultural discourses of medicine, romance, and “normality” to make sense of and manage their mixed HIV status and any perceived risks, not uncommonly in ways that depart from prevailing HIV prevention messages. Throughout, compelling personal stories accompany the empirical research, sharing the firsthand experiences of men and women in serodiscordant relationships. Bringing together research from diverse disciplines and geographical regions, this book contributes important insights for future HIV health promotion as well as offers new knowledge to scholarship on the cultural intersections of illness and intimacy. It will appeal to a broad audience working across the fields of HIV, health, gender, sexuality, development, and human rights.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Social Research in Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Asha Persson

  • Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, USA

    Shana D. Hughes

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Couples with Mixed HIV Status: Beyond Positive/Negative

  • Editors: Asha Persson, Shana D. Hughes

  • Series Title: Social Aspects of HIV

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42725-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42723-2Published: 05 December 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82646-2Published: 21 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42725-6Published: 24 October 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2509-6559

  • Series E-ISSN: 2509-6567

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 276

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Public Health, Family, Infectious Diseases, Sociology, general

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