“I try to row against the stream”: Illness narratives of people living with HIV in Mexico
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This article explores illness narratives built by people living with HIV in order to understand the meanings given to this illness in their lives. Three types of narratives have been identified. Firstly, progressive narratives where a positive meaning is given to the course of HIV-infection due to personal transformations, physical and emotional recovery that people shows. Secondly, stable narratives where illness normalization is restricted by many psychosocial problems. Finally regressive narratives where a negative or tragic meaning is given to illness due to the stigmas, discrimination, mental health issues, a lack of adherence and the emergence of diseases owing the advance of HIV-infection. Illness narratives are considered a strategy
to understand the way patients cope with illness, identify the psychosocial consequences of this illness and assess possible difficulties in terms of the patient´s emotional recovery and adherence to treatment.
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