We Are Still Here: Living with HIV in the UK. Issue 1 (2nd January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Flint, Adrian; Günsche, Mareike; Burns, Martin
• Is Part Of: Medical anthropology. Volume 42:Issue 1(2023)
• Page Start: 35
• Page End: 47
• Publication Date: 2023-01-02
• Subjects: AIDS -- discrimination -- exclusion -- HIV -- stigma -- UK; Medical anthropology -- Periodicals; 362.1
• DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2022.2139182
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0145-9740

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this article we highlight a number of the ongoing challenges faced by people living with HIV in the UK today (2021). Based on in-depth interviews with 23 respondents drawn from a range of ages, backgrounds and walks of life, we offer an insight into deeply personal experiences of what it means to have HIV. We demonstrate the degree to which, 40 years on from the formal emergence of the HIV pandemic, stigma and related structural violence remain both extremely present and extraordinarily debilitating. In essence, social responses to HIV remain mired in a past age.