Reflecting on HIV disclosure laws in the context of unsafe sex and the harm-reduction strategy

Federman, Cary; Holmes, Dave; Tremblay, François

doi:10.1057/sth.2011.5

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“…That lack of education about HIV contributes to silence around HIV (Gwadz et al 2018), as does the fear of HIV criminalization. These findings are in line with a number of other authors who describe the ways that HIV criminal laws perpetuate HIV stigma (Burris and Cameron 2008; Cameron 2009; Federman, Holmes, and Tremblay 2011; Hoppe 2017; Jürgens et al 2009; Kane and Mason 2001). Furthermore, the acts of marginalization that men witnessed or experienced result from community (mis)education, silence, and gossip, and the lessons learned from these experiences sustain as there no formal HIV and sex education to counter the beliefs that undergird this mistreatment.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

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The Ongoing Process of HIV-Stigma (Re)Production

Campbell

2022

Sociological Perspectives

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HIV stigma negatively affects the social experiences of people living with HIV (PLWH) and remains a challenge to HIV prevention, treatment, and care. Research has overwhelmingly focused on individual cognitive measures of HIV stigma (e.g., internalized, anticipated, and experienced). However, little research explores the interactions and societal structures through which HIV stigma is produced. Data from qualitative interviews with 30 black gay and bisexual men living with HIV in the U.S. Deep South revealed an interconnected and interdependent set of processes that produce and reproduce HIV stigma. These included social interactions (silence, euphemism, and gossip), witnessed acts of marginalization, word-of-mouth transmission of HIV misinformation, and laws and policies carried out within the education and criminal justice systems. Efforts to reduce stigma that focus on individual beliefs and attitudes are critical to improving the well-being of PLWH. However, reducing HIV stigma requires intervening on the social interactions and structures through which HIV stigma is produced and reproduced.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

The Ongoing Process of HIV-Stigma (Re)Production

Campbell

2022

Sociological Perspectives

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“…Social stigma, media reports, and moral entrepreneurs who fought to make HIV a criminal problem were critical in the proliferation of HIV criminal laws (Hoppe, 2017). Indeed, what exists today is a system of laws based on fear, blame, and stigma (Federman et al, 2011;Jürgens et al, 2009), not the science of HIV transmission. Indeed, according to the scientific evidence, HIV cannot be transmitted, sexually, by those who are on treatment and maintain viral suppression (Eisinger et al, 2019).…”

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Sex, lies, and videotape: A content and textual analysis of media coverage of the HIV criminal prosecution of Michael Johnson

Campbell

Rojo

Khanna

et al. 2020

Crime, Media, Culture

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Media coverage of HIV criminal cases has deployed sexualized and racialized tropes, and portrayed defendants as villains. Several media analyses of HIV criminal trials have been conducted, though only one was in the US, and none involved young Black gay men, who are disproportionately impacted by HIV. We conducted content and textual analyses of 91 media stories focused on the 2015 case of Michael Johnson, a Black gay college student living with HIV who was convicted under Missouri’s HIV non-disclosure laws. To capture both dominant and resistant meanings in news stories, we included mainstream news outlets, as well as HIV-related, African American and GLBT community-oriented outlets. Open and axial coding were carried out by a team of four researchers and thematic analysis was used to explore how media framed Johnson, his sexual activities, condom use, and alleged nondisclosure. Results showed that media stories portrayed Johnson as dishonest and sexually predatory by drawing on narratives of deception and framing him as the sole agentic actor in his sexual encounters. We argue that these media frames, coupled with what is included and excluded in media coverage negatively impacts public opinion of PLWH, reinforces HIV criminalization ideologies, and performs a disciplinary function in the lives of PLWH.

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Barebacking with Weber: Re-enchanting the rational sexual order

Robinson

2014

Soc Theory Health

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Reflecting on HIV disclosure laws in the context of unsafe sex and the harm-reduction strategy

Cited by 3 publications

References 36 publications

The Ongoing Process of HIV-Stigma (Re)Production

The Ongoing Process of HIV-Stigma (Re)Production

Sex, lies, and videotape: A content and textual analysis of media coverage of the HIV criminal prosecution of Michael Johnson

Barebacking with Weber: Re-enchanting the rational sexual order

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