Article ID: CBB001421860

HIV Illness Narratives in New Zealand: The Significance of the Experiences of HIV-Positive Homosexual Men between 1983 and 1997 (2013)

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New Zealand had its first reported case of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in 1983, two years after the disease was identified in America. The HIV and AIDS epidemic has had a severe social impact on a nation that was largely uneducated about the contagious disease, and feared its fatal consequences. This article examines the previously untold individual experiences of homosexual men with HIV, as discussed in their life narrative interviews. While these men's narratives are individually subjective, dominant thematic threads emerge across the narratives which indicate patterns in gay men's experiences with HIV in New Zealand's social and cultural history. Keywords New Zealand, oral history, illness narrative, homosexual, HIV

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Authors & Contributors
McKay, Richard A.
Aliete Cunha-Oliveira
Whiteside, Alan
Royles, Dan
De Rosis, Carolina
Blair, Thomas R.
Concepts
AIDS (disease); HIV / AIDS
Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV)
Public health
Epidemics
Disease and diseases
Infectious diseases
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
South Africa
Africa
San Francisco (California)
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Institutions
United States. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA)
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