Article ID: CBB001422144

New Patterns of Disclosure: How HIV-Positive Support Group Members from KwaZulu-Natal Speak of Their Status in Oral Narratives (2014)

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Denis, Philippe (Author)


Medical History
Volume: 58, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 278-297


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “New Directions and Challenges in Histories of Health, Healing and Medicine in South Africa”
Language: English

This paper examines the representations and emotions associated with disclosure and stigma in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, seven years after the start of the South African government's ARV roll-out programme on the basis of in-depth oral history interviews of HIV-positive support group members. It argues that the wider availability of ARV treatment, the ensuing reduced fatality rate and the increased number of people, including men, who receive counselling and testing, may mean that HIV/AIDS is less stigmatised and that disclosure has become easier. This does not mean that stigma has disappeared and that the confusion created by competing world-views and belief systems has dissipated. Yet the situation of extreme denial and ideological confusion observed, for example, by Deborah Posel and her colleagues in 2003 and 2004 in the Mpumalanga province seems to have lessened. The interviews hint at the possibility that people living with HIV may have, more than a decade before, a language to express the emotions and feelings associated with HIV/AIDS. They were also found to be more assertive in matters of gender relations. These new attitudes would make disclosure easier and stigma more likely to recede.

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Authors & Contributors
McKay, Richard A.
Elizabeth, Hannah J
Aliete Cunha-Oliveira
Padamsee, Tasleem J.
Pienaar, Kinar
Whiteside, Alan
Concepts
Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV)
AIDS (disease); HIV / AIDS
Public health
Epidemics
Infectious diseases
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
18th century
Places
South Africa
United States
United Kingdom
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
West Africa
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