Patients and Personhood
Perceptions of HIV in Mozambican Immigrants in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2151509 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bent Steenberg (0000-0001-7491-4049, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 211-224 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01459740.2019.1677646 |
| PMID | 31782655 |
| OpenAlex | W2991554143 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 23 |
Foreign-born immigrants residing in South Africa largely come from sub-Saharan countries with the highest HIV prevalence rates worldwide. These migrants may manage HIV medically, despite precarious conditions, but little is known about how they manage socially in shifting cultural and clinical landscapes. In this article, I explore the complexities of stigma by juxtaposing perceptions of illness between HIV-positive Mozambican migrants in care and members of their communities unware of their own serostatus. I argue that stigma is tied to location through social networks. Sharp perceptual contrasts between patients and community members result in equally contrasting social positionalities and othering in sprawling migrant communities, where secrecy and gossip become strategies of social survival. Due to its social lethality, stigma continues to cause distress
Distress · Ethnic group · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Immigration · Perception · Personhood · Political science · Psychiatry · Serostatus · Sociology · Stigma (botany · Anthropology · Gender Studies · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |