TY - JOUR
T1 - Machismo, public health and sexuality-related stigma in Cartagena
AU - Quevedo-Gómez, María Cristina
AU - Krumeich, Anja
AU - Abadía-Barrero, César Ernesto
AU - Pastrana-Salcedo, Eduardo
AU - van den Borne, Hubertus
N1 - Funding Information:
María Cristina Quevedo-Gómez was funded by a doctoral grant from the Netherlands Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education (Nuffic NFP-PhD-05-117 # CF1933) and partially supported by a research grant under a temporary contract with Los Andes University (Colciencias, grant number 1204-04-16438 CT-236-2004). The authors thank all participants for making this study possible by sharing their knowledge and experience. We are also grateful to the Fundación Amigos Posiþivos for their hospitality and collaboration. We also want to thank Jennifer Coelho for her editorial work.
PY - 2012/2
Y1 - 2012/2
N2 - This paper reports on an ethnographic study in Cartagena, Colombia. Over a seven-month fieldwork period, 35 men and 35 women between 15 and 60 years of age discussed the social context of HIV/AIDS through in-depth interviews, life histories and drawing. Participants considered the transgression of traditional gender roles as prescribed by machismo a major risk factor for HIV infection. In addition, they integrated public-health concepts of risk groups with these long-standing constructions of gender roles and sexuality-related stigma to create the notion of 'AIDS carriers'. The bricolage between machismo, public health and sexuality-related stigma that participants created and consequent preventive measures (based on an avoidance of sex with people identified as 'AIDS carriers') was a dynamic process in which participants were aware that changes in this particular interpretation of risk were necessary to confront the local epidemic.
AB - This paper reports on an ethnographic study in Cartagena, Colombia. Over a seven-month fieldwork period, 35 men and 35 women between 15 and 60 years of age discussed the social context of HIV/AIDS through in-depth interviews, life histories and drawing. Participants considered the transgression of traditional gender roles as prescribed by machismo a major risk factor for HIV infection. In addition, they integrated public-health concepts of risk groups with these long-standing constructions of gender roles and sexuality-related stigma to create the notion of 'AIDS carriers'. The bricolage between machismo, public health and sexuality-related stigma that participants created and consequent preventive measures (based on an avoidance of sex with people identified as 'AIDS carriers') was a dynamic process in which participants were aware that changes in this particular interpretation of risk were necessary to confront the local epidemic.
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U2 - 10.1080/13691058.2011.629682
DO - 10.1080/13691058.2011.629682
M3 - Article
C2 - 22085396
AN - SCOPUS:84859129842
SN - 1369-1058
VL - 14
SP - 223
EP - 235
JO - Culture, Health and Sexuality
JF - Culture, Health and Sexuality
IS - 2
ER -
