You're the first one I've told
Subtitle: the faces of HIV in the Deep South
By: Kathryn Whetten, Brian Wells Pence
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780813554532; 9780813554525; 9780813554549
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Description: The Deep South has seen a 36 percent increase in AIDS cases while the rest of the nation has seen a 2 percent decline. Many of the underlying reasons for the disease's continued spread in the region--ignorance about HIV, reluctance to get tested, non-adherence to treatment protocols, resistance to behavioral changes--remain unaddressed by policymakers. In this extensively revised second edition, Kathryn Whettan and Brian Wells Pence present a rich discussion of twenty-five ethnographic life stories of people living with HIV in the South. Most importantly, they incorporate research from their recent quantitative study, "Coping with HIV/AIDS in the Southeast" (CHASE), which includes 611 HIV-positive patients from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana. This new edition continues to bring the participant's voices to life while highlighting how the CHASE study confirmed many of the themes that originally emerged from the life histories. This is the first cohesive compilation of up-to-date evidence on the unique and difficult aspects of living with HIV in the Deep South.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the stage; title: Voices of the past; title: Enter HIV; title: Abuse, trauma, and HIV: the data; title: Distrust, conspiracy and confidentiality; title: Benefit systems; title: The importance of children; title: Sex, love, family and other support; title: Theoretical framework; title: The future.