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‘Just Talking About It Opens Your Heart’: meaning-making among Black African migrants and refugees living with HIV
- Source :
- Culture, Health & Sexuality. 15:910-923
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2013.
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Abstract
- Meaning-making has emerged as a core construct in addressing trauma, loss or crisis. This paper considers how diasporic Black Africans living with HIV, who come from interdependent collectivist cultures where the norm is one of implicit support, extend their meaning-making strategies when faced with a diagnosis of HIV. In this qualitative study, 13 Black African migrants and refugees living with HIV in New Zealand were interviewed and the transcripts analysed. After their diagnosis, participants began a journey of reconceptualising situational and global meaning. They extended their meaning-making strategies to include a community of like others to gain explicit support. Caregivers in host countries must understand the meaning-making processes of HIV-positive Black African migrants in order to provide competent services that lead to good social and health outcomes. All healthcare and social services workers should regularly assess Black African migrants and refugees living with HIV for positive social connectedness as well as medication adherence and more specific health concerns.
- Subjects :
- Male
Self Disclosure
Health (social science)
Refugee
Culture
Black People
Emigrants and Immigrants
HIV Infections
Social Welfare
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Adaptation, Psychological
Health care
medicine
Meaning-making
Humans
Situational ethics
Qualitative Research
Refugees
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Collectivism
Social Support
virus diseases
Gender studies
medicine.disease
Religion
Africa
Female
business
New Zealand
Qualitative research
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14645351 and 13691058
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Culture, Health & Sexuality
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5cef5d5f305aad31d88181ed8d68ce88