Watkins-Hayes, Celeste; Pittman-Gay, LaShawnDa; Beaman, Jean - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 12, pp. 2028-2036
How do HIV-positive individuals transition from believing and behaving as though they have a ‘death sentence’ to interpreting and coping with HIV as a chronic but manageable illness? Using interview data collected from 30 HIV-positive African American women beginning in 2005, we reveal how...