This book focuses on issues relevant to women, motherhood and living with HIV/AIDS. Each chapter offers information on real life situations - poor access to health services, internalized stigma, social ostracism and more - collected from around the world.

There are about 34 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS. Half are women. There has been a dramatic global increase in the rates of women living with HIV/AIDS. Among young women, especially in developing countries, infection rates are rapidly increasing. Many of these women are also mothers with young infants. When a woman is labeled as having HIV, she is treated with suspicion and her morality is being questioned. Previous research has suggested that women living with HIV/AIDS can be affected by delay in diagnosis, inferior access to health care services, internalized stigma and a poor utilization of health services. This makes it extremely difficult for women to take care of their own health needs. Women are also reluctant to disclose their HIV-positive status as they fear this may result in physical feelings of shame, social ostracism, violence, or expulsion from home. Women living with HIV/AIDS who are also mothers carry a particularly heavy burden of being HIV-infected. This unique book attempts to put together results from empirical research and focuses on issues relevant to women, motherhood and living with HIV/AIDS which have occurred to individual women in different parts of the globe. The book comprises chapters written by researchers who carry out their projects in different parts of the world, and each chapter contains empirical information based on real life situations. This can be used as evidence for health care providers to implement socially and culturally appropriate services to assist individuals and groups who are living with HIV/AIDS in many societies. The book is of interest to scholars and students in the domains of anthropology, sociology, social work, nursing, public health & medicine and health professionals who have a specific interest in issues concerning women who are mothers and living with HIV/AIDS from cross-cultural perspective.

The first book which puts together results from empirical research relating to women, motherhood and living with HIV/AIDS Features empirical information based on real life situations Can be used as evidence for health care providers to implement socially and culturally appropriate services to assist individuals and groups who are living with HIV/AIDS in many societies

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Pranee Liamputtong holds a Personal Chair in Public Health at the School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Pranee has previously taught in the School of Sociology and Anthropology and worked as a public health research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Mothers' and Children's Health, La Trobe University. Pranee has a particular interest in issues related to cultural and social influences on childbearing, childrearing and women's reproductive and sexual health. She has published several books and a large number of papers in these areas. Her books in the health area include: Maternity and reproductive health in Asian societies (with Lenore Manderson, Harwood Academic Press, 1996); Hmong women and reproduction (Bergin & Garvey, 2000); Coming of age in South and Southeast Asia: Youth, courtship and sexuality (with Lenore Manderson, Curzon Press, 2002); and Health, social change and communities (with Heather Gardner, Oxford University Press, 2003). She has also recently published books titled The journey of becoming a mother amongst women in northern Thailand (Lexington Books, 2007); and Reproduction, childbearing and motherhood: A cross-cultural perspective and Childrearing and infant care: A cross-cultural perspective (Nova Science, 2007). The most recent book that she published is Community, health and population (with Sansnee Jirojwong, Oxford University Press, 2008) and Infant feeding practices: A cross-cultural perspective (Springer 2010). She is now completing a book on Motherhood and Postnatal Depression: Narratives of Women and their Partners, for Springer (with Carolyn Westall), and will be published in early 2011.

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Preface.- Chapter 1. Women, Motherhood and Living with HIV/AIDS: An Introduction.- Part I. Women, Reproduction and HIV.- Chapter 2. Growing Confidence? Family-Planning by HIV-Positive Mothers in a South African Urban Setting; Ray Lazarus, Helen Struthers and Avy Violari.- Chapter 3. Pregnancy and Motherhood in the Narratives of Women with HIV Infection from the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Mónica Gogna, Silvia Fernández, Paula di Corrado and María Julieta Obiols.- Chapter 4. Making Decisions in Pregnancy about HIV Testing and Treatment: The Experience of Burmese Migrant Women in Northern Thailand; Pleumjit Chotiga, Kenda Crozier and Michael Pfeil.- Chapter 5. Motherhood, Infertility, and HIV: The Maasai Context of Norethern Tanzania; Lauren K. Birks, Yadira Roggeveen and Jennifer M. Hatfield.- Chapter 6. I Will Give Birth But Not too Much: HIV-Positive Childbearing in Rural Malawi; Sara Yeatman and Jenny Trinitapoli.- Part II. Motherhood, Infant Feeding and HIV/AIDS.- Chapter 7. 'I always Wanted to See My Babies Grow up': Motherhood Experiences for Women Living Longer than Expected with HIV/AIDS; Donna Barnes.- Chapter 8. Do You Tell Your Kids? ... What Do You Tell Your Kids? When Do You Tell Your Kids? How Do You Tell Your Kids?: HIV-Positive Mothers, Disclosure and Dtigma; Karalyn McDonald.- Chapter 9. Dealing with Life: Tactics Employed by DrugUsing Thai Mothers Living with HIV; Niphattra Haritavorn.- Chapter 10. Senegalese Women Living with HIV vs. the 2009 WHO Recommendations for PMTCT: Meanings for Resistance Regarding Infant Feeding; Alice Desclaux.- Chapter 11. Improving Access to Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) Programs in Africa: An Ongoing Process; Msellati Philippe.- Part III. Women, Mothers and Care.- Chapter 12. Psychological Distress among HIV-Positive Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Thailand; Ratchneewan Ross.- Chapter 13. HIV is My 'Best' Problem: Living with Racism, HIV andInterpersonal Violence; Josephine Mazonde and Wilfreda Thurston.- Chapter 14. The Effects of Collective Action on the Confidence of Individual HIV: Positive Mothers in Vietnam; Pauline Oosterhoff and Tran Xuan Bach.- Chapter 15. Women, Motherhood and Living Positively: The Lived Experience of Thai Women; Pranee Liamputtong, Niphattra Haritavorn and Niyada Kiatying-Angsulee.- Chapter 16. Scaling up HIV/AIDS Care among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cross-Cultural Barriers; Damalie Nakanjako, Florence Mirembe, Jolly Beyeza-Kashesya and Alex Coutinho.- Chapter 17. Mothers with HIV: A Case for a Human Rights Approach to HIV/AIDS Care in Northeastern Brazil; Jessica Jerome.- Chapter 18. The MOMS (Making Our Mothers Stronger) Project: A Culturally Tailored Parenting Intervention for Mothers Living with HIV in the Southern U.S.; Susan L. Davies, Herpreet Thind and Jamie Stiller.- Chapter 19. Coping with Patriarchy and HIV/AIDS: Female sexism in infant feeding counseling in southern Africa; Ineke Buskens and Alan Jaffe.