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'You're the First One I've Told': New Faces of HIV in the South
Rutgers University Press, 2002 Paper: 978-0-8135-3115-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8135-6048-9 | Cloth: 978-0-8135-3114-4 Library of Congress Classification RA643.84.S68W48 2002 Dewey Decimal Classification 362.196979200975
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In the second wave of the HIV epidemic, those with the disease are more likely to be female, young, heterosexual, a racial minority, and rural-living than in the past. An understanding of the vastly different lives of this second wave of HIV-infected persons is vital to the development of user-friendly health care systems. "You're the First One I've Told" offers a view into the lives of men and women infected with HIV. The experiences of twenty-five people living with this disease in rural eastern North Carolina serve as the foundation of this book, which also draws upon unique HIV/AIDS survey data collected by the authors and statistics from the Southeastern United States. This combination of qualitative and quantitative information provides readers with a vivid description of how people live with HIV/AIDS in the midst of their often traumatic lives, and why they manage their illness in ways that seem to contradict mainstream medical and social wisdom. The people interviewed represent a variety of races, genders, professions, family lives, and medical and social service access and utilization. See other books on: AIDS (Disease) | HIV | New Faces | Southern States | Whetten-Goldstein, Kathryn See other titles from Rutgers University Press |
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