HIV Endurance

Women’s Journeys from Diagnosis to Aging

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HIV Endurance

Women’s Journeys from Diagnosis to Aging

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HIV Endurance: Women’s Journeys from Diagnosis to Aging offers an autoethnographic analysis of the lived experience of disclosing HIV to others, incorporating HIV into one’s identity, challenging HIV stigma, and aging with HIV. Charlene F. D’Amore combines her autoethnographic writing with the voices of seventeen other HIV positive women. The women offer advice to others on disclosing HIV, coping with HIV, challenging HIV stigma through education and advocacy, and aging with HIV using spirituality and a renewed life purpose to find meaning. HIV Endurance offers a model of the HIV disclosure continuum, strategies to challenge HIV stigma, guidance to incorporate HIV into one’s identity, and ways that organizations can prepare for the growing number of people who are aging with HIV.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Table

Note to Reader

Preface: My HIV Journey

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section I: HIV Disclosure

Chapter 1: Other Women's HIV Journeys

Chapter 2: Disclosure Research

Chapter 3: Disclosure Guidance from Lived Experiences

Chapter 4: The Phenomenology of HIV Disclosure

Personal Connection: My Lived Experience with HIV Disclosure

Four Key Takeaways: HIV Disclosure

Section II: HIV Stigma

Chapter 5: Experiences of Stigma

Chapter 6: HIV Stigma Research

Chapter 7: Challenging HIV Stigma

Personal Connection: Challenging HIV Stigma with Education

Four Key Takeaways: HIV Stigma

Section III: HIV and Identity

Chapter 8: HIV's Effect on Identity

Chapter 9: Incorporating HIV into One's Identity

Chapter 10: My HIV Testimony

Personal Connection: My Spiritual Toolkit

Four Key Takeaways: HIV and Identity

Section IV: HIV and Aging

Chapter 11: Experiences of Aging with HIV

Chapter 12: Aging with HIV Research

Product details

Published	05 Sep 2023
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Pages	162
ISBN	9781666918625
Imprint	Lexington Books
Illustrations	4 b/w illustrations; 1 tables;
Series	Health and Aging in the Margins
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

HIV Endurance: Women’s Journeys from Diagnosis to Aging is a thoughtful body of work that raises awareness about HIV and highlights the ways HIV has specifically impacted several women’s lives. This book does a terrific job of exploring how women diagnosed with HIV navigate disclosure, stigma, identity, and aging. Additionally, this book will be of great interest to stakeholders and scholars within public health, health education, health communication, as well as women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.

Cody M. Clemens, Marietta College
HIV Endurance focuses on the process of finding wholeness while navigating the landscapes of life and cultivating personal growth. The book is accessible to readers being introduced to the topic of HIV and women’s lived experiences as well as informed readers. The data and research support the personal narratives and testimonies. D’Amore and the 17 women interviewed provide a needed focus on HIV and women’s journeys. They offer advice on how to cope and how to find a transformed sense of self and a transformed life’s purpose and meaning.

Psychology of Women Quarterly
The author includes a section on spirituality and religion as a coping strategy. This is one of the stronger themes of the book. Spirituality and religion are too often uncritically conflated, and the author teases these apart … This book reminds us that we all need to find the resilience within us, to grow up, and to endure.

Journal of Autoethnography