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Men and women living heterosexually with HIV (pdf 588kb)

In this report, 'people living heterosexually with HIV' includes HIV-positive men, HIV-positive women, HIV-negative partners, couples in which one partner has tested positive for HIV and the other has not and families. The term is used to place emphasis on heterosexuality as a social practice, rather than as an identity.

People living heterosexually with HIV develop a range of strategies for building normality within a small, sheltered world of trusted people and within a wider world of indifference to and ignorance about HIV. They often feel like 'cultural outsiders' in the HIV sector and are generally disconnected from other positive people and from communal forms of dialogue and support around HIV.

 

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