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Eighty women described the most difficult aspects of living with HIV infection. Content analysis revealed four themes: fear, limitation, symptoms, and emotions. Fears related to disclosure and stigma were more frequently described than fears of dying. Limitations were financial, sexual/reproductive, and physical. The physical limitations were related to the presence of symptoms leading to a wide range of emotions.
Jennifer J. Gray (Sat,) studied this question.