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Journal article

‘It’s a very isolating world’: the journey to HIV care for women living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada

Abstract

HIV health services research conventionally defines place in terms of proximity to care. However, understandings of place must also include the social spaces that women living with HIV (WLWH) occupy which shape their experience of health and access to care. Drawing on focus group data from the Canadian HIV Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study, we explored how 28 WLWH navigate geographic place and social space in attempting to …

Authors

Carter A; Greene S; Nicholson V; O’Brien N; Dahlby J; de Pokomandy A; Loutfy MR; Kaida A; Team OBOTCR

Journal

Gender Place & Culture, Vol. 23, No. 7, pp. 941–954

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publication Date

July 2, 2016

DOI

10.1080/0966369x.2015.1073701

ISSN

0966-369X

Labels

Fields of Research (FoR)

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)