HIV-Negativity in Serodiscordant Relationships: The Absence, Enactment, and Liminality of Serostatus Identity

Persson, Asha

doi:10.1080/01459740.2011.561456

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“…First, addressing HIV and related conditions is often prioritized during the visit with HIV-affected couples, likely due to time constraints often facing clinicians serving HIV-affected populations. When seeing an HIV-affected couple together, clinicians should be mindful of the physical and mental health needs of the HIV-negative partners, in order to mitigate a feeling of consuming a "negative space," a phenomenon seen in our study and others (Persson, 2011).…”

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“…Many consumers described being judged negatively by health-care providers because of their sexual involvement with an HIV-infected person. Ironically, even in the HIV health-care sector, many expressed feeling nonexistent, associating the word "negative" with its literal meaning (Persson, 2011). The author of the study concluded, "Three decades into the HIV epidemic, one affected group remains largely invisible: HIV-negative people in intimate relationships with HIV-positive people."…”

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“I have it just like you do”: voices of HIV-negative partners in serodifferent relationships receiving primary care at a public clinic in San Francisco

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HIV transmission among serodifferent couples has a significant impact on incidence of HIV worldwide. Antiretroviral interventions (i.e., preexposure prophylaxis, post-exposure prophylaxis, and treatment as prevention) are important aspects of comprehensive prevention and care for serodifferent couples. In this study, HIV-negative members of serodifferent couples were interviewed using open-ended questions to explore their health-care needs, perceptions of clinic-based prevention services, and experience of having an HIV-infected partner. Analysis of interviews with 10 HIV-negative partners revealed the following themes: (1) health needs during joint medical visits; (2) sexual risk reduction strategies; (3) relationship dynamics; and (4) strategies for coping. This study elucidated relationship, health and health care factors that might affect development and implementation of clinic-based prevention interventions for HIV serodifferent couples. The findings point to possible relationship-centered recommendations for health-care providers who serve HIV-affected couples in clinical settings.

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“I have it just like you do”: voices of HIV-negative partners in serodifferent relationships receiving primary care at a public clinic in San Francisco

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“…The article draws primarily on interviews with HIV‐positive participants. Narratives of HIV‐negative partners in relation to HIV infectiousness have been discussed extensively elsewhere (Persson et al 2006, 2009, Persson 2008, 2010, 2011, Persson and Richards 2008a). The article draws on data collected across all study phases, together with particular focus on the interviews conducted with 18 HIV‐positive participants in 2009.…”

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Non/infectious corporealities: tensions in the biomedical era of ‘HIV normalisation’

Persson

2012

Sociology Health & Illness

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In the contemporary HIV epidemic, antiretroviral treatments are increasingly considered so effective at viral suppression that they render people with HIV sexually non-infectious. With its radical implications for global HIV prevention, this emerging paradigm is invested with the potential to turn the epidemic around and to 'normalise' one of the most feared infectious diseases in history, thus echoing wider trends of 'biomedicalisation'. What remains unexamined is whether this paradigm shift will bring about a parallel shift in the embodied experiences of being HIV-positive. This article explores the nascent trajectory from infectious to non-infectious corporeality against the backdrop of the discursive history of HIV, with particular focus on the landmark Swiss Consensus Statement, and in the context of research with heterosexuals with HIV in Australia. In-depth interviews revealed that HIV corporeality was not a stable, homogenised experience across participants and time, nor did it simply follow medical discourses. Instead, HIV corporeality emerged as a contingent set of tensions between conflicting discourses of infectiousness that were negotiated and made sense of within situated and embodied life histories. These findings pose challenges to the imperative of HIV normalisation and the related tendency in HIV prevention to universalise the notion of 'infectiousness'.

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“…The study commenced in 2004 and was conducted at the The National Centre in HIV Social Research at the University of New South Wales in collaboration with the Heterosexual HIV/AIDS Service NSW, commonly known as Pozhet. The aim of this qualitative, longitudinal cohort study was to build a comprehensive picture of the experiences of living with HIV among this greatly under-researched population in the local epidemic, including issues around diagnosis, stigma, disclosure, health, treatments, services, relationships, and sexual practice (Persson et al 2006Persson 2008Persson , 2010Persson , 2011Richards 2008a, 2008b). Consequently, the scope of the study was much broader than the particular issue considered here.…”

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The Undoing and Doing of Sexual Identity among Heterosexual Men with HIV in Australia

Persson

2012

Men and Masculinities

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This article explores the tendency among heterosexual men with HIV in Australia to declare their sexual identity in a way that is otherwise atypical among heterosexuals. This apparent need to articulate heterosexuality tends to create a sense of discomfort within the local HIV sector, partly because it seems curiously anomalous, and partly because, on the face of it, it lends itself to a perception of homophobia. The author seeks to examine this phenomenon more closely in order to identify and unpack the meanings surrounding it. In doing so, the author draws on qualitative interviews with heterosexual men with HIV and on her long-term collaboration with an HIV health promotion service for heterosexuals living with HIV. The author argues that, to understand these men’s compulsion to name their sexual identity, we need to understand the intersections between the cultural force of heteronormativity and the profoundly homosexual history of the HIV epidemic in Australia, which brings into sharp focus the “undoing” and “doing” of heterosexual masculinity.

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HIV-Negativity in Serodiscordant Relationships: The Absence, Enactment, and Liminality of Serostatus Identity

Cited by 20 publications

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“I have it just like you do”: voices of HIV-negative partners in serodifferent relationships receiving primary care at a public clinic in San Francisco

“I have it just like you do”: voices of HIV-negative partners in serodifferent relationships receiving primary care at a public clinic in San Francisco

Non/infectious corporealities: tensions in the biomedical era of ‘HIV normalisation’

The Undoing and Doing of Sexual Identity among Heterosexual Men with HIV in Australia

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