Journal
MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Volume 36, Issue 5, Pages 485-499Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2017.1306856
Keywords
Adolescence; HIV; treatment adherence; qualitative; stigma
Funding
- Economic and Social Research Council [RES-062-23-2308]
- NIHR Health Technology Assessment Program [08/53/25]
- MRC [MC_UP_A910_1114] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/I004785/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MC_UP_A910_1114] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Institute for Health Research [08/53/25] Funding Source: researchfish
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Global health priorities are being set to address questions on adherence to HIV antiretroviral therapy in adolescence. Few studies have explored young people's perspectives on the complex host of social and relational challenges they face in dealing with their treatment in secret and their condition in silence. In redressing this, we present findings from a longitudinal qualitative study with young people living with HIV in the UK, Ireland, US, and Uganda, embedded within the BREATHER international clinical trial. Drawing from Goffman's notion of stigma, we analyze relational dynamics in HIV clinics, as rare spaces where HIV is known, and how young people's relationships may be threatened by non-adherence to treatment. Young people's reflections on and strategies for maintaining their reputation as patients raise questions about particular forms of medicalization of HIV and the moralization of treatment adherence that affect them, and how these may restrict opportunities for care across the epidemic.
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