Pure’ drug users, commercial sex workers and ‘ordinary girls’

Gendered narratives of HIV risk and prevention in post-Soviet Ukraine

Dados Bibliográficos

ID15099080
AutoresJ Owczarzak (0000-0003-2380-5533, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA, autor correspondente), D Phillips (0000-0001-5636-9702, Indiana University), Sarah D Phillips, Woojeong Cho (Indiana University), Woo-Jeong Cho (Indiana University Bloomington)
Ano2018
Volume20
Fascículo11
Páginas1171-1184
Data de publicação2018-11-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCulture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13691058.2017.1421708
PMID29417879
OpenAlexW2793098465
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas32

International best practices call for a gender-responsive approach to HIV prevention for women, including those who use drugs and those who engage in sex work. This paper draws on multiple qualitative data sources collected over five years in Ukraine to explore the notions of gender, women and family that buttress HIV-related programmes for women. Our analysis reveals that service providers often cast women as hapless victims of unfortunate family circumstances and troubled personal relationships that produce sudden poverty, or social strivers who seek access to wealth and privilege at the expense of their health. Women are portrayed as most vulnerable to HIV when they lack a male 'protector'. We argue that the programmes constituted around these stereotypes of women and their vulnerabilities reflect new forms of institutional power that deflect attention away from gendered socio-economic processes that contribute to women's HIV vulnerability, including job insecurity and unemployment, workplace discrimination, unreliable social benefits and power imbalances within their relationships. We explore how to transform HIV prevention efforts to better address the causes of women's increased vulnerability to HIV in Ukraine and in Eastern Europe more generally

Criminology · Economic growth · Economics · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Political science · Poverty · Power (physics · Privilege (computing · Qualitative research · Sociology · Unemployment · Vulnerability (computing · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Gender Studies · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Law · Medicine · Sex work and related issues