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At special risk: Biopolitical vulnerability and HIV/STI syndemics among women.
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Health Sociology Review . Sep2012, Vol. 21 Issue 3, p258-271. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Women are at special risk for HIV/AIDS infection and disease progression due to an inter-related set of biopolitical factors. Biological factors that contribute to women's special vulnerability include hormonal, developmental, and immunological characteristics. Social and political factors such as poverty, gendered power relationships, and violence interact with biological factors to create an HIV risk profile among women. The approach of this paper is to review literatures that describe components of women's risks for HIV in order to create an integrated model of vulnerability. We present a syndemic model that calls attention to the importance of understanding the pathways of adverse interaction among interacting diseases and the social and political environments of sufferers. This paper synthesises known risk factors and analyses them through the lens of syndemics theory in order to demonstrate the biopolitical vulnerability of women to HIV. Applying a syndemic approach offers important implications for prevention and treatment of HIV among women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *HIV infection risk factors
*SEXUALLY transmitted disease risk factors
*INFECTIOUS disease transmission
*BIOLOGY
*CINAHL database
*CONCEPTUAL structures
*DISEASE susceptibility
*HORMONES
*MEDLINE
*ONLINE information services
*PATH analysis (Statistics)
*PRACTICAL politics
*POVERTY
*SEX work
*WOMEN
*EVIDENCE-based medicine
*PROFESSIONAL practice
*SOCIAL context
*INTIMATE partner violence
*DISEASE exacerbation
*DISEASE progression
*PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability
*META-synthesis
*DISEASE risk factors
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14461242
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Health Sociology Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 85205924
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5172/hesr.2012.21.3.258