Community of blood : impacts and management of intersecting stigmas among Thai same-sex attracted men and transgender people with HIV
Year: 2017
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This study presents findings of research undertaken with 22 same-sex-attracted men and transgender people living with HIV (PLHIV) in community or self-help groups in Thailand. It examines experiences of stigma associated with same-sex attraction, non-binary gender identity and HIV. It investigates the ways that intersecting stigma associated with sex, gender and HIV affected the study participants’ lives and influenced their decisions to join and remain in community groups of same-sex-attracted and transgender PLHIV. The project adopted grounded theory, a qualitative research method, to undertake fieldwork between 2012 and 2014. The research contributes to scholarship on HIV stigma and its management. The individuals living with HIV in this study felt generally powerless to change HIV stigma and its multiple impacts on their own. However, together they found they had more power and more capacity to change the Thai stigma associated with HIV.
Author: Scott Berry
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2614045979