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PUSHING POVERTY TO THE PERIPHERY: HIV‐POSITIVE AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN's HEALTH NEEDS, THE RYAN WHITE CARE ACT, AND A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SERVICE PROVISION
Author(s) -
O'Daniel Alyson Anthony
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
transforming anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1548-7466
pISSN - 1051-0559
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-7466.2008.00020.x
Subject(s) - poverty , white (mutation) , inequality , politics , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , health care , african american , economic growth , sociology , service (business) , gender studies , gerontology , care act , political science , medicine , economics , law , family medicine , economy , mathematical analysis , biochemistry , chemistry , ethnology , mathematics , gene
This article examines the structural conditions and daily life circumstances faced by low‐income African American women living with HIV/AIDS. The author draws upon 10 months of participant‐observation and interviews among AIDS service organizations in Denver, Colorado, and the African American women they served to consider the ways in which structurally produced material deprivation and social inequality impinge upon study participants' abilities to attend to HIV‐related health needs. Pivotal to this analysis is an historically based and ethnographically grounded discussion of how macro‐level reform measures complicate the experience and provision of health care for poor and HIV‐positive African American women.