HIV Stigma in India: A Gendered Experience?

This paper explores the gendered dimension of HIV stigma within the particular social context of India. Building up on the multiple status contingencies of women in India based on class, caste or geographical location, women's lived experiences with HIV is not the same. Using John Braithwaite's "Shaming Theory" and Pierre Bourdieu's notion of "Cultural Capital" this paper introduces the gendered, culture and community aspects of lived experiences of HIV within a local milieu, therefore providing foundation for fundamental analogies and contrasts with the global parlance for future research. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]