 | South African Women Living with HIV: Global Lessons from Local Voices Subjects: HIV-positive women -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Social conditions; Women -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Social conditions; HIV infections -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Cape Town; HIV infections -- Sex differences -- South Africa -- Cape Town; M; Based on interviews with women who are HIV positive, this sobering pandemic brings to light the deeply rooted and complex problems of living with HIV. Already pushed to the edges of society by poverty, racial politics, and gender injustice, women with HIV in South Africa have found ways to cope with work and men, disclosure of their HIV status, and care for families and children to create a sense of normalcy in their lives. As women take control of their treatment, they help to determine effective routes to ending the spread of the disease. Anna Aulette-Root is Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. Floretta Boonzaier is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. Judy Aulette is Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.
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