Women's Studies Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Cult Health Sex. 2011 Apr;13(4):443-56. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2010.542565.
With the expansion of access to HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa, questions have emerged as to whether stigma remains a useful concept for understanding the effects of AIDS. There is, however, a paucity of research on how HIV-positive Africans--especially African men--experience living with AIDS. This paper addresses this gap and draws on findings from ethnographic fieldwork in 2004 and 2009 with a support group for HIV-positive men in Kampala, Uganda. The paper demonstrates that stigma is central to how men in this context coped with HIV and AIDS and it provides a conceptual framework that links men's experiences of AIDS stigma to conceptions of masculinity. In so doing, findings highlight both the possibilities and challenges of involving African men more fully in HIV prevention.
随着撒哈拉以南非洲地区艾滋病毒检测和抗逆转录病毒治疗的普及，人们开始质疑污名是否仍然是理解艾滋病影响的一个有用概念。然而，关于艾滋病毒呈阳性的非洲人——尤其是非洲男性——如何体验艾滋病的研究却很少。本文旨在填补这一空白，利用 2004 年和 2009 年在乌干达坎帕拉的一个艾滋病毒阳性男性支持小组进行的民族志实地调查结果。本文表明，污名是这些男性应对艾滋病毒和艾滋病的核心，它提供了一个概念框架，将男性经历的艾滋病污名与男性气质的概念联系起来。这样做的结果突出了让非洲男性更充分地参与艾滋病毒预防的可能性和挑战。
