Adding insult to injury: Experiences of mobile HIV‑positive women who return home for treatment in Tanah Papua, Indonesia

Abstract

This chapter explores the personal experiences of mobile HIV-positive indigenous women from Tanah Papua, Indonesia who returned to their home communities in need of social support and treatment. Little is known about the experiences of HIV-positive women returnees in general, and the contours and effects of the moral expectations and boundaries within home communities in particular. This paper draws on close-grained analysis of in-depth interviews and fieldwork conducted between 2009 and 2013 to suggest Papuan women returnees suffer a reduced quality of local network relations, and sustained stigma and gender-based discrimination. We illustrate how the inevitable struggles over belonging that returning young adults face are intensified by the intersection of seropositivity, shifts in the quality of social networks and gendered judgements about mobility. Women returnees are unable to rely on affective networks, and Papua's poorly developed HIV treatment programs magnify these challenges. MoBILITIEs of RETURN 148

Indigenous Masculinities and the "Refined Politics" of Alcohol and Racialization in West Papua

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Pengetahuan dan Keterampilan Artikulasi Hak Kesehatan Seksual dan Reproduksi (HKSR) di Kalangan Perempuan Muda Asli Papua

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