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No Ordinary Mainstream Illness: How HIV Doctors Perceive the Virus

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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.

Keywords: health care, primary; HIV/AIDS; illness and disease, social construction; relationships, patient-provider; research, qualitative; stigma

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Judul Seri

Qualitative Health Research

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Penerbit

London : SAGE Publications Ltd., 2014

Deskripsi Fisik

Qualitative Health Research 2014, Vol. 24(1) 6– 17

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English

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DOI: 10.1177/1049732

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Edisi

2014, Vol. 24(1)

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METODOLOGI PENELITIAN KUALITATIF

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