Description
Book SynopsisHIV 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 ContentsTable of Contents
List of Figures and Table
Note to Reader
Preface: My HIV Journey
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I: HIV Disclosure
Chapter 1: Other Women’s HIV Journeys
Chapter 2: Disclosure Research
Chapter 3: Disclosure Guidance from Lived Experiences
Chapter 4: The Phenomenology of HIV Disclosure
Personal Connection: My Lived Experience with HIV Disclosure
Four Key Takeaways: HIV Disclosure
Section II: HIV Stigma
Chapter 5: Experiences of Stigma
Chapter 6: HIV Stigma Research
Chapter 7: Challenging HIV Stigma
Personal Connection: Challenging HIV Stigma with Education
Four Key Takeaways: HIV Stigma
Section III: HIV and Identity
Chapter 8: HIV’s Effect on Identity
Chapter 9: Incorporating HIV into One’s Identity
Chapter 10: My HIV Testimony
Personal Connection: My Spiritual Toolkit
Four Key Takeaways: HIV and Identity
Section IV: HIV and Aging
Chapter 11: Experiences of Aging with HIV
Chapter 12: Aging with HIV Research
Chapter 13: Developing HIV Endurance
Personal Connection: Maintaining Social Capital
Four Key Takeaways: HIV and Aging
Conclusion
Appendix A: List of Resources
Appendix B: Relevant HIV-Related Terms
Appendix C: Spiritual Principles and Attitudinal Pillars of Mindfulness
References
About the Author
