Perspectives of Women Living with HIV on Addressing Violence and Use of Alcohol During HIV Services: Qualitative Findings from Fishing Communities in Uganda
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The syndemic relationship between harmful alcohol use, intimate partner violence (IPV), and HIV is well established across international settings. Less is known about how these health issues are perceived by women living with HIV (WLWH), who are disproportionately affected by these intertwined epidemics. A qualitative study was undertaken with 20 WLWH in Rakai, Uganda, to assess their perceptions of how these issues have affected their lives and their communities and to assess the acceptability of integrating a screening and brief intervention for alcohol use and IPV into HIV posttest counseling. Recommendations for intervention programming arising from the results are discussed.
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- Authors
- Miller, A. P., Ddaaki, W. G., Bloom, B. E., Wirtz, A. L., Nakyanjo, N., Kigozi, G., & Wagman, J. A.
- Affiliations
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Rakai Health Sciences Program (UG)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Corresponding author
- Wagman, Jennifer A.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Violence Against Women
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2021-06-17
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 6-7
- Pages
- 1483-1504
- ISSN
- 1077-8012 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-8448
- PMC
- PMC8678385
- OpenAlex
- W3171685524
- Cited by
- 11
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2
- FWCI
- 1.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Violence Against Women (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (F31AA028198, K01AA024068)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH107275)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (T32DA023356)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (K01AI125086, U01AI100031, R01AI102939, R01AI110324, U01AI075115, P30AI094189)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD070769, R01HD050180)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Keywords
- women living with HIV, intimate partner violence, hazardous drinking, syndemic, screening and brief intervention, service acceptability, fishing communities, Rakai, Uganda, lived experience
- MeSH terms
- Intimate Partner Violence, Hunting, Counseling, Female, Humans, Uganda, HIV Infections
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