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Women, Motherhood and Living with HIV/AIDS

A Cross-Cultural Perspective

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Editors:
  1. Pranee Liamputtong

    1. School of Public Health, La Trobe University School of Public Health, Bundoora, Australia

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  • The first book which puts together results from empirical research relating to women, motherhood and living with HIV/AIDS
  • Features empirical information based on real life situations
  • Can be used as evidence for health care providers to implement socially and culturally appropriate services to assist individuals and groups who are living with HIV/AIDS in many societies

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Women, Motherhood, and Living with HIV/AIDS: An Introduction

    • Pranee Liamputtong
    Pages 1-24

  3. Women, Reproduction and HIV/AIDS

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
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    2. Growing Confidence? Family Planning by HIV-Positive Mothers in a South African Urban Setting

      • Ray Lazarus, Helen Struthers, Avy Violari
      Pages 27-46

    3. Pregnancy and Motherhood in the Narratives of Women with HIV Infection Living in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina

      • Mónica Laura Gogna, Silvia Beatriz Fernández, Paula di Corrado, María Julieta Obiols
      Pages 47-61

    4. Making Decisions in Pregnancy About HIV Testing and Treatment: The Experience of Burmese Migrant Women in Northern Thailand

      • Pleumjit Chotiga, Kenda Crozier, Michael Pfeil
      Pages 63-75

    5. Motherhood, Infertility, and HIV: The Maasai Context of Northern Tanzania

      • Lauren K. Birks, Yadira Roggeveen, Jennifer M. Hatfield
      Pages 77-91

    6. “I Will Give Birth But Not Too Much”: HIV-Positive Childbearing in Rural Malawi

      • Sara Yeatman, Jenny Trinitapoli
      Pages 93-109

  4. Motherhood, Infant Feeding and HIV/AIDS

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. “I Always Wanted to See My Babies Grow Up”: Motherhood Experiences for Women Living Longer than Expected with HIV/AIDS

      • Donna B. Barnes
      Pages 113-127

    3. Do You Tell Your Kids? What Do You Tell Your Kids? When Do You Tell Your Kids? How Do You Tell Your Kids? HIV-Positive Mothers, Disclosure and Stigma

      • Karalyn McDonald
      Pages 129-146

    4. Dealing with Life: Tactics Employed by Drug-Using Thai Mothers Living with HIV

      • Niphattra Haritavorn
      Pages 147-160

    5. Senegalese Women Living with HIV Versus the 2009 WHO Recommendations for PMTCT: Meanings for Resistance Regarding Infant Feeding

      • Alice Desclaux
      Pages 161-176

    6. Improving Access to Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) Programs in Africa: An Ongoing Process

      • Philippe Msellati
      Pages 177-187

  5. Women, Mothers and Care

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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    2. Psychological Distress Among HIV-Positive Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Thailand

      • Ratchneewan Ross
      Pages 191-200

    3. HIV Is My “Best” Problem: Living with Racism, HIV and Interpersonal Violence

      • Josephine Mazonde, Wilfreda (Billie) Thurston
      Pages 201-213

    4. The Effects of Collective Action on the Confidence of Individual HIV-Positive Mothers in Vietnam

      • Pauline Oosterhoff, Tran Xuan Bach
      Pages 215-229

    5. Women, Motherhood, and Living Positively: The Lived Experience of Thai Women Living with HIV/AIDS

      • Pranee Liamputtong, Niphattra Haritavorn, Niyada Kiatying-Angsulee
      Pages 231-247

    6. Scaling Up HIV/AIDS Care Among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cross-Cultural Barriers

      • Damalie Nakanjako, Florence Maureen Mirembe, Jolly Beyeza-Kashesya, Alex Coutinho
      Pages 249-265
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About this book

There are  about 34 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS. Half are women. There has been a dramatic global increase in the rates of women living with HIV/AIDS. Among young women, especially in developing countries, infection rates are rapidly increasing. Many of these women are also mothers with young infants. When a woman is labeled as having HIV, she is treated with suspicion and her morality is being questioned. Previous research has suggested that women living with HIV/AIDS can be affected by delay in diagnosis, inferior access to health care services, internalized stigma and a poor utilization of health services. This makes it extremely difficult for women to take care of their own health needs. Women are also reluctant to disclose their HIV-positive status as they fear this may result in physical feelings of shame, social ostracism, violence, or expulsion from home. Women living with HIV/AIDS who are also mothers carry a particularly heavy burden of being HIV-infected. This unique book attempts to put together results from empirical research and focuses on issues relevant to women, motherhood and living with HIV/AIDS which have occurred to individual women in different parts of the globe. The book comprises chapters written by researchers who carry out their projects in different parts of the world, and each chapter contains empirical information based on real life situations. This can be used as evidence for health care providers to implement socially and culturally appropriate services to assist individuals and groups who are living with HIV/AIDS in many societies. The book is of interest to scholars and students in the domains of anthropology, sociology, social work, nursing, public health & medicine and health professionals who have a specific interest in issues concerning women who are mothers and living with HIV/AIDS from cross-cultural perspective.

Reviews

From the book reviews:

“This is a book that any scholar interested in HIV and women studies should add to his or her personal library. It presents a state-of-the-art outline of recent studies—mainly through different types of qualitative methods—supplemented with a plethora of appropriate references. … this book is a comprehensive source to acquire a cross-cultural perspective on HIV and women studies, providing guidance for both health professionals and policy makers.” (Ines Aristegui, Applied Research Quality Life, Vol. 9, 2014)

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Public Health, La Trobe University School of Public Health, Bundoora, Australia

    Pranee Liamputtong

About the editor

Pranee Liamputtong holds a Personal Chair in Public Health at the School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Pranee has previously taught in the School of Sociology and Anthropology and worked as a public health research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Mothers’ and Children’s Health, La Trobe University. Pranee has a particular interest in issues related to cultural and social influences on childbearing, childrearing and women’s reproductive and sexual health. She has published several books and a large number of papers in these areas. Her books in the health area include: Maternity and reproductive health in Asian societies (with Lenore Manderson, Harwood Academic Press, 1996); Hmong women and reproduction (Bergin & Garvey, 2000); Coming of age in South and Southeast Asia: Youth, courtship and sexuality (with Lenore Manderson, Curzon Press, 2002); and Health, social change and communities (with Heather Gardner, Oxford University Press, 2003). She has also recently published books titled The journey of becoming a mother amongst women in northern Thailand (Lexington Books, 2007); and Reproduction, childbearing and motherhood: A cross-cultural perspective and Childrearing and infant care: A cross-cultural perspective (Nova Science, 2007). The most recent book that she published is Community, health and population (with Sansnee Jirojwong, Oxford University Press, 2008) and Infant feeding practices: A cross-cultural perspective (Springer 2010). She is now completing a book on Motherhood and Postnatal Depression: Narratives of Women and their Partners, for Springer (with Carolyn Westall), and will be published in early 2011.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Women, Motherhood and Living with HIV/AIDS

  • Book Subtitle: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

  • Editors: Pranee Liamputtong

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5887-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5886-5Published: 23 March 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8345-3Published: 09 April 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5887-2Published: 12 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 314

  • Topics: Anthropology, Public Health, Quality of Life Research, Cross Cultural Psychology

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