Threatened identities: the experience of HIV-mothers in sub-Saharan Africa

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Title:	Threatened identities: the experience of HIV-mothers in sub-Saharan Africa
Author:	Boafo, Isaac M.
Year:	2010
Periodical:	Legon Journal of Sociology (ISSN 0855-6261)
Volume:	4
Issue:	1
Pages:	55-74
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:	AIDS mothers identity
Abstract:	This paper reviews the literature on HIV infection and motherhood among women from Sub-Saharan Africa to understand the implications of HIV infection for their identity as mothers. The paper addresses the question of how HIV-positive mothers reconstruct their identities as good mothers through their disclosure and non-disclosure decisions, and their adherence to antiretroviral drugs. The importance of women's caring abilities to their experience of HIV infection is highlighted and the paper concludes that the concepts of biographical disruption and reinforcement can be used simultaneously to understand the experience of HIV infection among mothers. Bibliogr., notes, sum [Journal abstract, edited]