You're the First One I've Told

The Faces of HIV in the Deep South

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ID23510656
AuthorsKathryn Whetten-Goldstein, Brian Wells Pence
Year2019
Pages254
Publication date2019-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueYou're the first one I've told (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRutgers University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.36019/9780813554549
OpenAlexW4231068991
ISBN9780813554549
Open LibraryOL25316282M
LanguageEN
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The Deep South has seen a 36 percent increase in AIDS cases while the rest of the nation has seen a 2 percent decline. Many of the underlying reasons for the disease’s continued spread in the region—ignorance about HIV, reluctance to get tested, non-adherence to treatment protocols, resistance to behavioral changes—remain unaddressed by policymakers. In this extensively revised second edition, Kathryn Whetten and Brian Wells Pence present a rich discussion of twenty-five ethnographic life stories of people living with HIV in the South. Most importantly, they incorporate research from their recent quantitative study, “Coping with HIV/AIDS in the Southeast” (CHASE), which includes 611 HIV-positive patients from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana. This new edition continues to bring the participants’ voices to life while highlighting how the CHASE study confirmed many of the themes that originally emerged from the life histories. This is the first cohesive compilation of up-to-date evidence on the unique and difficult aspects of living with HIV in the Deep South.

Archaeology · Coping (psychology) · Ethnography · Family medicine · Geography · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Ignorance · Political science · Psychiatry · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Gender Studies · History · HIV, TB, and STIs Epidemiology · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · AIDS (Disease) · HIV Infections · Social Environment · Southern states · united states · Gerontology

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