Funding Source: HIV Center Pilot Studies Program; 2008-2009

HIV Center Key Personnel:

Jennifer Hirsch, Ph.D.

Tonya Taylor, Ph.D.

Project Overview
(from abstract)

This pilot project established a community-based ethnographic research site and
collected preliminary data among HIV-positive individuals on anti-retroviral therapy (ART) in Washington Heights.

The specific aims of the proposed project are to: 1) examine and understand how the experience of ART affects the gendered life projects of people living with HIV, including their family and peer relations, sexual behaviors, marital intentions and trajectories, and reproductive goals and practices; and 2) investigate and evaluate how the intersection between ART and life projects shapes individuals’ therapeutic itineraries and crucial
health-related behaviors such as disclosure, risky and protective sexual practices, and
adherence to therapy.