HIV Endurance

Women’s Journeys from Diagnosis to Aging

Charlene F. D'Amore

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2023
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978794733
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

HIV Endurance: Women's Journeys from Diagnosis to Aging offers an autoethnographic analysis of the lived experience of disclosing HIV to others, incorporating HIV into one's identity, challenging HIV stigma, and aging with HIV. Charlene F. D'Amore combines her autoethnographic writing with the voices of seventeen other HIV positive women. The women offer advice to others on disclosing HIV, coping with HIV, challenging HIV stigma through education and advocacy, and aging with HIV using spirituality and a renewed life purpose to find meaning. HIV Endurance offers a model of the HIV disclosure continuum, strategies to challenge HIV stigma, guidance to incorporate HIV into one's identity, and ways that organizations can prepare for the growing number of people who are aging with HIV.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Figures and Table
• Note to Reader
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• HIV Disclosure
• Other Women’s HIV Journeys
• Disclosure Research
• Disclosure Guidance from Lived Experiences
• The Phenomenology of HIV Disclosure
• Personal Connection
• Four Key Takeaways
• HIV Stigma
• Experiences of Stigma
• HIV Stigma Research
• Challenging HIV Stigma
• Personal Connection
• Four Key Takeaways
• HIV and Identity
• HIV’s Effect on Identity
• Incorporating HIV into One’s Identity
• My HIV Testimony
• Personal Connection
• Four Key Takeaways
• HIV and Aging
• Experiences of Aging with HIV
• Aging with HIV Research
• Developing HIV Endurance
• Personal Connection
• Four Key Takeaways
• Conclusion
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• ‌‌Appendix C
• References
• Index
• About the Author