From activism to secrecy: Contemporary experiences of living with HIV in London in people diagnosed from 1986 to 2014.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Successes in biomedicine have transformed HIV from a debilitating and frequently fatal infection to a chronic, manageable condition.

Objective

To explore how the contemporary metanarrative of HIV as a chronic condition is understood by patients and how it varies depending on when they were diagnosed.

Design

Qualitative interviews with 52 people living with HIV who were diagnosed during different phases in the history of the epidemic.

Setting and participants

Participants were recruited from two HIV clinics in London to include four "HIV generations": generation 1 were those who had been diagnosed pre-1997 (pre-ART), generation 2 from 1997 to 2005 (complex ART), generation 3 from 2006 to 2012 (simpler ART) and generation 4 diagnosed in the year before

SUBMITTER: Rai T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6250870 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature