After trying to contact women living with HIV, I finally found one that accepted to be interviewed. She was in her mid-twenties and pregnant with her second child. She had been living with HIV for more than 4 years. We shared our mobile phone numbers to agree on the time and place for the...Read more
In an interview with a gay-male couple, one of my interlocutors told me:
INFORMANT: I did not clearly know before this interview what a serodiscordant couple implies. Labels are tough. Besides being gay, now you have to deal with the stigma associated both to homosexuality and HIV. Even...Read more
After a few months of ethnographic fieldwork at Clínica Condesa, I decided to attend several support groups offered there. In one session, after introducing myself to other participants, one young man approached me to ask me some questions about serodiscordant experiences. He was quite insistent...Read more
After trying to get access to a Health Institute in Mexico, a general coordinator said to me in an e-mail:
Despite the fact that we consider your research project to be quite...Read more
