Based on interviews with women who are HIV positive, this sobering pandemic brings to light the deeply rooted and complex problems of living with HIV. Already pushed to the edges of society by poverty, racial politics, and gender injustice, women with HIV in South Africa have found ways to cope with work and men, disclosure of their HIV status, and care for families and children to create a sense of normalcy in their lives. As women take control of their treatment, they help to determine effective routes to ending the spread of the disease.

Essential lessons for treating people with HIV

Anna Aulette-Root is Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town.

Floretta Boonzaier is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town.

Judy Aulette is Professor of Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Acknowledgements
1. Women Living with HIV
2. An Introduction to South Africa with a Focus on the Cape Colored Community
3. Setting the Stage for Exploring a Support Group for HIV Positive Women in a Coloured Community in Cape Town
4. Marginalizing the Marginalized Through Multiple Stigmas
5. Disclosure for Better or Worse
6. Staking a Claim as Normal Through Work and Relationships with Men
7. Care Work
8. Care Work and Violent Men
9. Women's Bodies
10. Lessons for the World References
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