Asha Persson
YOU?
Author Swipe
View article: Tuberculosis treatment and undernutrition on Daru Island, Papua New Guinea: A qualitative exploration of a local foodscape
Tuberculosis treatment and undernutrition on Daru Island, Papua New Guinea: A qualitative exploration of a local foodscape Open
A substantial proportion of people with tuberculosis (TB)-one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases-live in resource-poor, food insecure settings. It is widely recognised that undernutrition significantly heightens vulnerability to …
View article: Logics of control and self-management in narratives of people living with HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B
Logics of control and self-management in narratives of people living with HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B Open
In Australia, the response to HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B has largely been through the constructed category of 'blood borne viruses' which treats these viruses as an interconnected set of conditions with respect to their mode of trans…
View article: Professional perspectives on serodiscordant family service provision in the context of blood-borne viruses
Professional perspectives on serodiscordant family service provision in the context of blood-borne viruses Open
In recognition of the broader relational aspects of viral infections, family support is considered important when someone is diagnosed with a blood-borne virus (BBV), such as HIV, hepatitis C (HCV) and hepatitis B (HBV). However, families'…
View article: “We Live Just Like a Normal Family”: Exploring Local Renderings of the Global HIV Normalisation Discourse Among Serodiscordant Couples in Papua New Guinea
“We Live Just Like a Normal Family”: Exploring Local Renderings of the Global HIV Normalisation Discourse Among Serodiscordant Couples in Papua New Guinea Open
The contemporary global discourse of “HIV normalisation” is intimately linked to the scientific consensus that, with effective antiretroviral therapy, an “undetectable” viral load renders HIV “non-infectious” and “untransmittable” between …
View article: Belonging, social connection and non‐clinical care: Experiences of HIV peer support among recently diagnosed people living with HIV in Australia
Belonging, social connection and non‐clinical care: Experiences of HIV peer support among recently diagnosed people living with HIV in Australia Open
Effective HIV treatments have transformed the medical needs of people living with HIV (PLHIV) to a chronic condition. However, stigma, poorer mental health outcomes and social isolation remain significant challenges for many PLHIV. HIV pee…
View article: The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics
The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: exploring service providers’ perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics Open
A virus has a social history. In the case of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV, this history is one involving stigma and discrimination, advocacy and activism, and recent dramatic improvements in treatment. These social histories influen…
View article: Understanding ‘risk’ in families living with mixed blood-borne viral infection status: The doing and undoing of ‘difference’
Understanding ‘risk’ in families living with mixed blood-borne viral infection status: The doing and undoing of ‘difference’ Open
‘Risk’ has long been at the centre of expert and popular perceptions of transmissible and stigmatised blood-borne viral infections, such as HIV and viral hepatitis. There is a substantial body of research on transmission risk among couples…
View article: Polygyny, Serodiscordance and HIV Prevention in Papua New Guinea: A Qualitative Exploration of Diverse Configurations
Polygyny, Serodiscordance and HIV Prevention in Papua New Guinea: A Qualitative Exploration of Diverse Configurations Open
Polygyny is practised in vastly different cultural contexts, including in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The literature is contradictory, arguing that polygyny is either protective against HIV or a critical risk factor. Neither argument accounts …
View article: Experience as Evidence: The Prospects for Biographical Narratives in Drug Policy
Experience as Evidence: The Prospects for Biographical Narratives in Drug Policy Open
Programs and policies are increasingly framed by the logics of “evidence-based policy,” a term subject to critical scrutiny and change after it emerged as an explicit valuing of specific types of quantitative data as objective, and a deval…
View article: Mapping Experiences of Serodiscordance: Using Visual Methodologies to Construct Relationality in Families Living With or Affected by Stigmatized Infectious Disease
Mapping Experiences of Serodiscordance: Using Visual Methodologies to Construct Relationality in Families Living With or Affected by Stigmatized Infectious Disease Open
The “my health, our family” research project was established to document stories of what serodiscordance (mixed infection status) means for Australian families affected by HIV, hepatitis B, and/or hepatitis C. A family mapping exercise was…
View article: Experiences of Family Belonging among Two Generations of Sexually Diverse Australians
Experiences of Family Belonging among Two Generations of Sexually Diverse Australians Open
Objective To extend knowledge about how lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans+, and queer (LGBTQ+) people relate to their families of origin by paying particular attention to their experiences of belonging within this context. Background Although …
View article: “Vibrant Entanglements”: HIV Biomedicine and Serodiscordant Couples in Papua New Guinea
“Vibrant Entanglements”: HIV Biomedicine and Serodiscordant Couples in Papua New Guinea Open
The global ambition to "end AIDS" hinges on the universal uptake of HIV treatment-as-prevention and is undergirded by the assumption that biomedical technologies have consistent, predictable effects across highly diverse settings. But as a…
View article: Hidden carers? A scoping review of the needs of carers of people with HIV in the contemporary treatment era
Hidden carers? A scoping review of the needs of carers of people with HIV in the contemporary treatment era Open
The role of carers in supporting people with HIV is largely hidden in Western countries in the contemporary era of antiretroviral treatments. Little is known about their needs. A scoping review was undertaken to describe the research avail…
View article: Challenging Perceptions of “Straight”: Heterosexual Men Who Have Sex with Men and the Cultural Politics of Sexual Identity Categories
Challenging Perceptions of “Straight”: Heterosexual Men Who Have Sex with Men and the Cultural Politics of Sexual Identity Categories Open
Research shows that some heterosexually identified men engage in sex with men; however, they remain largely hidden and little understood. Despite long-standing scholarly recognition that sexual identity and orientation do not always neatly…
View article: Breaking Binaries? Biomedicine and Serostatus Borderlands among Couples with Mixed HIV Status
Breaking Binaries? Biomedicine and Serostatus Borderlands among Couples with Mixed HIV Status Open
With recent breakthroughs in HIV treatment and prevention, the meanings of HIV-positivity and HIV-negativity are changing at biomedical and community levels. We explore how binary constructions of HIV serostatus identities are giving way t…
View article: Families Living with Blood-Borne Viruses: The Case for Extending the Concept of “Serodiscordance”
Families Living with Blood-Borne Viruses: The Case for Extending the Concept of “Serodiscordance” Open
The concept of “serodiscordance” (mixed infection status) is primarily associated with epidemiological concerns about HIV transmission risk in couples. We make the case for extending this concept to include families with mixed HIV and vira…
View article: On the Margins of Pharmaceutical Citizenship: Not Taking HIV Medication in the “Treatment Revolution” Era
On the Margins of Pharmaceutical Citizenship: Not Taking HIV Medication in the “Treatment Revolution” Era Open
With the expanding pharmaceuticalization of public health, anthropologists have begun to examine how biomedicine's promissory discourses of normalization and demarginalization give rise to new practices of and criteria for citizenship. Muc…
View article: “Just take your medicine and everything will be fine”: Responsibilisation narratives in accounts of transitioning young people with HIV into adult care services in Australia
“Just take your medicine and everything will be fine”: Responsibilisation narratives in accounts of transitioning young people with HIV into adult care services in Australia Open
Young people who have grown up with perinatally acquired HIV in wealthy nations are increasingly transitioning into adult care settings which expect more independence and self-regulation than paediatric care. Drawing on the first qualitati…
View article: ‘The world has changed’: pharmaceutical citizenship and the reimagining of serodiscordant sexuality among couples with mixed<scp>HIV</scp>status in Australia
‘The world has changed’: pharmaceutical citizenship and the reimagining of serodiscordant sexuality among couples with mixed<span>HIV</span>status in Australia Open
In this article, I revisit the question of whether HIV can ever be reimagined and re‐embodied as a potentially non‐infectious condition, drawing on a current qualitative study of couples with mixed HIV status (serodiscordance) in Australia…
View article: ‘Not Until I'm Absolutely Half-Dead and Have To:’ Accounting for Non-Use of Antiretroviral Therapy in Semi-Structured Interviews with People Living with HIV in Australia
‘Not Until I'm Absolutely Half-Dead and Have To:’ Accounting for Non-Use of Antiretroviral Therapy in Semi-Structured Interviews with People Living with HIV in Australia Open
Current debates regarding the use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to promote both individual- and population-level health benefits underscore the importance of understanding why a subpopulation of people with diagnosed HIV and access to tr…