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No ordinary mainstream illness: How HIV doctors perceive the virus

dc.contributor.author Persson, Asha en_US
dc.contributor.author Newman, Christy en_US
dc.contributor.author Hopwood, Max en_US
dc.contributor.author Kidd, Michael en_US
dc.contributor.author Canavan, Peter en_US
dc.contributor.author Kippax, Susan en_US
dc.contributor.author Reynolds, Robert en_US
dc.contributor.author de Wit, John en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T12:27:47Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T12:27:47Z
dc.date.issued 2014 en_US
dc.description.abstract Research has shown that social representations of HIV can constitute barriers to health workers’ willingness to provide HIV care. Considering a growing shortage in the HIV primary workforce in Western countries, we examine how HIV is perceived today by doctors involved in its care. In 1989 Sontag predicted that once the virus became better understood and treatable, the dehumanizing meanings that defined the early epidemic would vanish and HIV would turn into an ordinary illness. However, research shows that HIV still carries stigma, including in the health care sector. Drawing on qualitative interviews, we found that HIV doctors in Australia perceived HIV as a far-from-ordinary chronic illness because of its extraordinary history and its capacity to extend in multiple clinical and social directions. These rarely explored perspectives can contribute to the social reframing of HIV and to strategies to build a dedicated HIV workforce in Australia and elsewhere. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1049-7323 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/53171
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.subject.other relationships, patient-provider en_US
dc.subject.other health care, primary en_US
dc.subject.other HIV/AIDS en_US
dc.subject.other research, qualitative en_US
dc.subject.other stigma en_US
dc.title No ordinary mainstream illness: How HIV doctors perceive the virus en_US
dc.type Journal Article en
dcterms.accessRights open access
dspace.entity.type Publication en_US
unsw.accessRights.uri https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
unsw.identifier.doiPublisher http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732313514139 en_US
unsw.relation.FunderRefNo 568632 en_US
unsw.relation.FunderRefNoURL http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/568632 en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.fundingScheme NHMRC Project en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofissue 1 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal Qualitative Health Research en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 6-17 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume 24 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Persson, Asha, Centre for Social Research in Health, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Newman, Christy, Centre for Social Research in Health, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Hopwood, Max, Centre for Social Research in Health, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Kidd, Michael en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Canavan, Peter en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Kippax, Susan, Social Policy Research Centre, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Reynolds, Robert en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation de Wit, John, Centre for Social Research in Health, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school Centre for Social Research in Health *
unsw.relation.school Social Policy Research Centre *
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