Concealment tactics among HIV-positive nurses in Uganda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15098848 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Kyakuwa (Makerere University, corresponding author), Anita Hardon (0000-0002-2761-5502, University of Amsterdam) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | sup1 |
| Pages | S123-S133 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13691058.2012.716452 |
| PMID | 22963266 |
| OpenAlex | W2125816693 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 14 |
This paper is based on two-and-a-half years of ethnographic fieldwork in two rural Ugandan health centres during a period of ART scale-up. Around one-third of the nurses in these two sites were themselves HIV-positive but most concealed their status. We describe how a group of HIV-positive nurses set up a secret circle to talk about their predicament as HIV-positive healthcare professionals and how they developed innovative care technologies to overcome the skin rashes caused by ART that threatened to give them away. Together with patients and a traditional healer, the nurses resisted hegemonic biomedical norms denouncing herbal medicines and then devised and advocated for a herbal skin cream treatment to be included in the ART programme
Ethnography · Family medicine · Geography · Health care · Health professionals · Hegemony · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Political science · Scale (ratio · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Traditional medicine · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Nursing · Sex work and related issues
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| Citations per year | 0.77 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2023 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |