SOC309Y1 Lecture Notes - Sexually Transmitted Infection, Seroconversion, Safe Sex
Document Summary
Dirty, diseased and undeserving: the positioning of hiv positive women. The characterization of hiv infection as a sexually transmitted disease attracts to it the stigma associated with other sexually transmitted diseases, including notions of indiscriminate promiscuity, pollution, and uncleanliness. The other rote of transmission commonly discussed is injecting drug use, which adds to the suggestion that hic is acquired through activities that are antisocial, unhygienic, and irresponsible. The hiv positive body is more often than not assumed to be male. Women living with hiv have been positioned as a source or potential source of infection. Contributed to widespread discrimination, with women being positioned as dirty, diseased and undeserving , but the need and concerns of women have not been addressed. Women living with hiv became infected largely through ordinary heterosexual sex. Injecting drug use (idu) were accounted for by means such as medically acquired transmission. Women and their particular concerns have largely been ignored in the hiv/aids research literature.
