Fragility, fluidity, and resilience: caregiving configurations three decades into AIDS.

Publisher: Informa Healthcare Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 8915313 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1360-0451 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 09540121 NLM ISO Abbreviation: AIDS Care Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: London : Informa Healthcare
Original Publication: Abingdon, Oxfordshire, U.K. : Carfax Pub. Co., c1989-

Child, Orphaned* ; Family* ; Family Characteristics* ; Resilience, Psychological*; Caregivers/*psychology ; HIV Infections/*psychology; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome ; Adaptation, Psychological ; Child ; China ; Eswatini ; HIV Infections/therapy ; Humans ; Interpersonal Relations ; Lesotho ; Social Support ; South Africa ; Zambia

HIV and AIDS have impacted on social relations in many ways, eroding personal networks, contributing to household poverty, and rupturing intimate relations. With the continuing transmission of HIV particularly in resource-poor settings, families and others must find new ways to care for those who are living with HIV, for those who are ill and need increased levels of personal and medical care, and for orphaned children. These needs occur concurrently with changes in family structure, as a direct result of HIV-related deaths but also due to industrialization, urbanization, and labor migration. In this special issue, the contributing authors draw on ethnographies from South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zambia, and - by way of contrast - China, to illustrate how people find new ways of constituting families, or of providing alternatives to families, in order to provide care and support to people infected with and afflicted by HIV.

Keywords: Kinship; caregiving; changing social structures; gender

Date Created: 20160714 Date Completed: 20170605 Latest Revision: 20191210

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10.1080/09540121.2016.1195487

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