Embodied Work: Insider Perspectives on the Work of HIV/AIDS Peer Counselors
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Our aim in this study was to explore HIV/AIDS peer counseling from the perspective of women actively engaged in this work within the context of a community-based program in rural areas of the southeastern United States. Based on this research we suggest that the embodied work of HIV/AIDS peer counselors is constructed around their personal identities and experiences. This work involves gaining entry to other HIV-positive women's lives, building relationships, drawing on personal experiences, facing issues of fear and stigma, tailoring peer counseling for diversity, balancing risks and benefits, and terminating relationships. Peer counselors recognize the personal and collective value of their work, which, like much of women's work within the context of family and community, lacks public visibility and acknowledgment. We discuss implications for the training and support of peer-based interventions for HIV and other women's health issues across diverse contexts and settings.
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In an HIV peer counselor study, counselors had difficulty setting boundaries with clients, especially in the substance abuse component.
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- Authors
- Hilfinger Messias, D. K., Moneyham, L., Vyavaharkar, M., Murdaugh, C., & Phillips, K. D.
- Affiliations
- University of Alabama (US)
- University of South Carolina (US)
- University of Arizona (US)
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (US)
- ORCID
- Moneyham, Linda
- Venue
- Health Care for Women International
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2009-06-22
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 570-592
- ISSN
- 0739-9332 (ISSN-L)
- 1096-4665
- PMC
- PMC2729058
- OpenAlex
- W2121076240
- Cited by
- 42
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 2.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Health Care For Women International (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01nr004956-08)
- National Institute of Nursing Research (1 R01 NR04956, R01 NR004956)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Keywords
- peer counselors, embodied work, women's employment, stigma, fear, personal identity, relationship building, community-based programs, rural communities, women's health, peer intervention, training and support, recognition of women's work
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Attitude to Health, Community Health Services, Counseling, Fear, Female, Humans, Job Description, Middle Aged, Peer Group, Surveys and Questionnaires, Self Concept, Social Support, Stereotyping, Women, Women's Health Services, Southeastern United States, Nursing Methodology Research, HIV Infections, Rural Health Services, Feminism, Narration, Qualitative Research
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