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We Are Still Here: Living with HIV in the UK

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: In this article we highlight a number of the ongoing challenges faced by people living with HIV in the UK today (2021). Based on in-depth interviews with 23 respondents drawn from a range of ages, backgrounds and walks of life, we offer an insight into deeply personal experiences of what it means to have HIV. We demonstrate the degree to which, 40 years on from the formal emergence of the HIV pandemic, stigma and related structural violence remain both extremely present and extraordinarily debilitating. In essence, social responses to HIV remain mired in a past age.

Source: Medical Anthropology

DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2022.2139182

Authors: Adrian Flint, Mareike Günsche, Martin Burns

Institutions: University of Bristol, Mongolian State University of Culture and Art

Language: English

Topic: HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions

Subfield: Infectious Diseases

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Funder: University of Bristol