My life as Mae Tid Chua [mothers who contracted HIV disease]: Motherhood and women living with HIV/AIDS in central Thailand |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Australia;2. Faculty of Public Health, Thammasat University, Thailand;1. Ecole Doctorale Régionale d''Afrique Centrale en Infectiologie Tropicale, Franceville, Gabon;2. Faculté de Médecine, Université de Bunia, Bunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo;3. Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo;4. Institut de Recherche en Santé, de Surveillance Epidémiologique et de Formations (IRESSEF), Pôle Urbain de Diamniadio, Dakar, Sénégal;5. Centre National de Référence des Maladies Sexuellement Transmissibles et de la Thérapie Antirétrovirale, Bangui, Central African Republic;6. Unité de Recherches et d''Intervention sur les Maladies Sexuellement Transmissibles et le SIDA, Département de Santé Publique, Faculté des Sciences de la Santé de Bangui, Central African Republic;7. Laboratoire de virologie, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, and Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France;1. College of Nanotechnology, King Mongkut''s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok 10520, Thailand;2. Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University, Chachoengsao 24000, Thailand;1. Thermoelectrics Research Center, Research and Developments Institution, Sakon Nakhon Rajabhat University, 47000, Thailand;2. Program of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sakon Nakhon Rajabhat University, 47000, Thailand;3. Program in Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Loei Rajabhat University, 42000, Thailand;4. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, 40000, Thailand;1. College of Nanotechnology, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok 10520, Thailand;2. Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University, Chachoengsao 24000, Thailand;1. Department of Midwifery Science, AVAG and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, P.O. Box 7057 (D4.40), 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands;2. Department of Medical Statistics & BioInformatics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands;3. Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada;4. Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL), Utrecht, The Netherlands;5. Department of General Practice & Elderly Care Medicine/EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Backgroundliterature suggests that many women living with HIV/AIDS have a desire to become mothers and indeed many of them have done so (Thiangtham and Bennett, 2009, Barnes, 2013, Cogna et al., 2013, Lazarus et al., 2013, Ross, 2013, Yeatman and Trinitapoli, 2013). However, there is still a lack of knowledge about the lived experiences of Thai women living with HIV/AIDS who have become mothers. In this paper, we explored the experiences of pregnancy and birth, motherhood, and infant feeding practices among women living with HIV/AIDS in Thailand.Methodin-depth interviews were conducted with 26 women living with HIV/AIDS in Thailand.Findingsmotherhood was considered desirable by women living with HIV/AIDS who participated in our study. Despite living with a serious illness, becoming a mother permitted them to have a meaningful life. Motherhood prompted the women to stay alive for their children. However, the women lived with constant anxiety about the condition of their infants. Reproductive needs of the women in our study were often questioned by their health care providers. Many were advised by their doctors and nurses not to breast feed their newborn babies as this could transmit HIV to the child. Most women took into account their ability to care for their children in the future and thus did not wish to have many children.Conclusionthis paper contributes to conceptual understanding about the lived experiences of motherhood among women living with HIV/AIDS in Thailand. The findings have implications for midwifery care. |
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| Keywords: | Pregnancy and birth experiences Reproductive rights Infant feeding practices Abortion Qualitative research Thai women |
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