Exploring risk of experiencing intimate partner violence after HIV infection: a qualitative study among women with HIV attending postnatal services in Swaziland.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore risks of experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) after HIV infection among women with HIV in a postnatal care setting in Swaziland.

Design

A qualitative semistructured in-depth interview study, using thematic analysis with deductive and inductive coding, of IPV experiences after HIV infection extracted from service-integration interview transcripts.

Setting

Swaziland.

Participants

19 women with HIV, aged 18-44, were purposively sampled for an in-depth interview about their experiences of services, HIV and IPV from a quantitative postnatal cohort participating in an evaluation of HIV and reproductive health services integration in Swaziland.

Results

Results indicated that women were at risk of experiencing IPV after HIV infection

SUBMITTER: Mulrenan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4442192 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature