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You're the First One I've Told: The Faces of HIV in the Deep South

You're the First One I've Told: The Faces of HIV in the Deep South

Whetten-Goldstein, Kathryn
Pence, Brian Wells

Hardcover

Medical ReferenceBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 0813554535
ISBN13: 9780813554532
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Mar 15 2013
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Deep South has seen a 36 percent increase in AIDS cases while the rest of the nation has seen a 2 percent decline. Many of the underlying reasons for the disease's continued spread in the region--ignorance about HIV, reluctance to get tested, non-adherence to treatment protocols, resistance to behavioral changes--remain unaddressed by policymakers.

In this extensively revised second edition, Kathryn Whetten and Brian Wells Pence present a rich discussion of twenty-five ethnographic life stories of people living with HIV in the South. Most importantly, they incorporate research from their recent quantitative study, Coping with HIV/AIDS in the Southeast (CHASE), which includes 611 HIV-positive patients from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana. This new edition continues to bring the participants' voices to life while highlighting how the CHASE study confirmed many of the themes that originally emerged from the life histories. This is the first cohesive compilation of up-to-date evidence on the unique and difficult aspects of living with HIV in the Deep South.

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