Sero-Kinship: How Young People Living With HIV/AIDS Survive in Southeast Nigeria.
| Autor: | Uzim EE; Global Health Program, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan., Igwe I; Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria., Lee PH; Institute of Health Policy and Management, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Qualitative health research [Qual Health Res] 2024 Aug 07, pp. 10497323241254256. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 07. |
| DOI: | 10.1177/10497323241254256 |
| Abstrakt: | Research on the lived experiences of HIV survivors, including young people living with HIV, has primarily emphasized broader sociocultural concerns, such as stigmatization and cultural attitudes toward sexuality and gender, while giving less attention to the interconnectedness of these issues with the mental well-being of those affected by the illness. This study, drawing on relational ethnography including observations and interviews at four antiretroviral-administering healthcare facilities in Enugu State, southeast Nigeria, explores how young people living with HIV strive toward viral suppression and how they develop collaborative psychosocial support along with the global efforts in eradicating the HIV epidemic. We found that, in and between themselves, young people living with HIV weave for themselves a network of relationships, though discreetly, to foster and encourage survivorship. Such relatedness, where mutual trust and support have emerged and rebuilt HIV survivors' faith in a livable life, forms what we conceptualize as "sero-kinship." That is, sero-kinship, which focuses on how people create and change meanings in their everyday lives that ultimately contribute to controlling HIV and treatment management, forms an essential foundation on which a life with HIV becomes thinkable, bearable, then manageable, and acceptable. Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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