Citation

O'Daniel AA. Transform. Anthropol. 2008; 16(2): 112-127.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, American Anthropological Association, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1548-7466.2008.00020.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article examines the structural conditions and daily life circumstances faced by low-income African American women living with HIV/AIDS. The author draws upon 10 months of participant-observation and interviews among AIDS service organizations in Denver, Colorado, and the African American women they served to consider the ways in which structurally produced material deprivation and social inequality impinge upon study participants' abilities to attend to HIV-related health needs. Pivotal to this analysis is an historically based and ethnographically grounded discussion of how macro-level reform measures complicate the experience and provision of health care for poor and HIV-positive African American women.