Citation

Onu CC, Dworkin SL, Ongeri LG, Oyaro P, Neylan TC, Cohen CR, Bukusi EA, Rota G, Meffert SM. J. Acquir. Immune Defic. Syndr. (LWW) 2016; 74(1): 52-55.

Affiliation

1Medical Student (fourth year), UCSF School of Medicine, USA 2UCSF School of Nursing, UCSF Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF Global Health Sciences. San Francisco, California, USA 3Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Kenya 4Family AIDS Care Education & Services, Kenya 5UCSF Department of Psychiatry, San Francisco, California, USA 6Family AIDS Care Education & Services, Kenya, UCSF Global Health Sciences, UCSF Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA 7Kenya Medical Research Institute, Family AIDS Care Education & Services, Kenya, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Nairobi, Kenya 8UCSF Department of Psychiatry, UCSF Global Health Sciences.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/QAI.0000000000001135

PMID

27509254

Abstract

For people living with HIV, exposure to sexual violence (SV) is associated with decreased adherence to antiretroviral (ARV) medication, a primary predictor of their survival. Identification of risk factors for SV is a pressing issue in sub-Saharan Africa where the global majority of HIV+ women live and the prevalence of SV against women is high. We used qualitative data to examine SV against HIV-positive (HIV+) women enrolled in HIV care in Kenya. Respondents identified husbands as perpetrators of SV in the context of women's efforts to use condoms as directed by HIV care providers.This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND), which permits downloading and sharing the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially.

Language: en