Birth in the Age of AIDS
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Birth in the Age of AIDS

Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India

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Birth in the Age of AIDS

Women, Reproduction, and HIV/AIDS in India

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Birth in the Age of AIDS is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the experiences of HIV-positive women in India during pregnancy, birth, and motherhood at the beginning of the 21st century. The government of India, together with global health organizations, established an important public health initiative to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child. While this program, which targets poor women attending public maternity hospitals, has improved health outcomes for infants, it has resulted in sometimes devastatingly negative consequences for poor, young mothers because these women are being tested for HIV in far greater numbers than their male spouses and are often blamed for bringing this highly stigmatized disease into the family.

Based on research conducted by the author in India, this book chronicles the experiences of women from the point of their decisions about whether to accept HIV testing, through their decisions about whether or not to continue with the birth if they test HIV-positive, their birthing experiences in hospitals, decisions and practices surrounding breast-feeding vs. bottle-feeding, and their hopes and fears for the future of their children.

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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780804786140
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Note on Statistics and Transliteration
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Prologue: Into the Well and Out Again
  10. 1. Birth in the Age of AIDS
  11. 2. India Responds to the Epidemic
  12. 3. "The HIV Test Is Like an Immunization": Scenes from Prenatal HIV Counseling
  13. 4. "I Don't Need My Husband's Permission": Women's Views on HIV/AIDS and Decisions About Prenatal Testing
  14. 5. HIV/AIDS and the Gendering of Stigma
  15. 6. To Birth or Not to Birth? Constraints and Pragmatics in HIV-Positive Women's Childbearing Decisions
  16. 7. HIV-Positive Women Give Birth: Deception and Determination
  17. 8. Breast or Bottle? HIV-Positive Women's Responses to Global Health Policy on Infant Feeding
  18. 9. Creating a Storm: Activists' Hopes and Mothers' Fears
  19. Epilogue: Memory Boxes
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index