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HIV/AIDS
Research conducted at Brown University has updated our knowledge about HIV/AIDS
July 7th, 2009
"In the context of the African HIV epidemic, support groups are not simply spaces for discussions of social and health well-being; neither are they institutions functioning solely to cultivate self-responsible and economically empowered patients," scientists writing in the journal Anthropological Quarterly report. "HIV-positive women in northern Nigeria have appropriated a support group to facilitate their marriage arrangements. In this group, women negotiate the threats of stigma and the promises of respectable marriage through what I call the management of ambiguity surrounding their HIV status," wrote K.A. Rhine and colleagues, Brown University. ...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-07-07)
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