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Qual Health Res ; 26(11): 1531-42, 2016 Sep.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26848084

ABSTRACT

This study examined factors that mitigate or heighten HIV risk among HIV-negative wives in serodiscordant relationships in Gujarat, India. Grounded theory was used to analyze 46 interviews (23 couples) where husbands were HIV-positive and wives were HIV-negative. A conceptual framework emerged from analysis from which we identified five pathways and four key behaviors: (a) safer sex, (b) no sex, (c) coercive sex, and (d) unprotected sex. Most couples either practiced safe sex or abstained from sex. Factors such as wives' assertiveness, a wife's fear of acquiring HIV, mutual understanding, positive sex communication, and a husband's desire to protect wife influenced safe sex/sexual abstinence. Factors such as desire for children, a husband's alcohol use, and intimate partner violence influenced coercive and unprotected sex. Counseling topics on sex communication, verbal and non-verbal safer sex strategies, as well as addressing intimate partner violence and alcohol use may be important in preventing risk to HIV-negative wives.


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HIV Infections/transmission , Spouses , Adult , Alcohol Drinking , Female , Humans , Hydrocephalus , India , Interpersonal Relations , Male , Marriage , Risk , Spouse Abuse
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Glob Public Health ; 11(1-2): 17-33, 2016.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26268668

ABSTRACT

Women displaced by conflict are often exposed to many factors associated with a risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) such as high levels of community violence and the breakdown of social support systems. Previous research found that Colombian women perceived IPV to increase after displacement. This study explored how the experience of displacement altered gendered roles in ways that influenced the risk of IPV. Thirty-three qualitative interviews were conducted with displaced partnered Colombian women. Women disclosed that couples often held patriarchal gender norms; however, the roles of each partner necessitated by conditions of displacement were often in conflict with these norms. Men's underemployment and women's employment outside the home were viewed as gender transgressive within some partnerships and increased relationship conflict. Economic resources intended to empower displaced women, notably women's earnings and home ownership, had unintended negative consequences for women's agency. These consequences included a corresponding decrease in partner financial contributions and reduced mobility. Women's ability to obtain support or leave violent relationships was hindered by interpersonal, social and structural barriers. For women to have agency to leave violent relationships, power relationships at all levels from the interpersonal to societal must be recognised and addressed.


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Employment/economics , Intimate Partner Violence/psychology , Power, Psychological , Refugees/psychology , Social Norms/ethnology , Women's Rights/standards , Adolescent , Adult , Colombia , Employment/statistics & numerical data , Female , Gender Identity , Humans , Interviews as Topic , Intimate Partner Violence/ethnology , Middle Aged , Qualitative Research , Refugees/statistics & numerical data , Socioeconomic Factors , Warfare , Women's Rights/trends , Young Adult
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