What am I ‘living’ with? Growing up with HIV in Uganda and Zimbabwe

摘要: As paediatric HIV treatment has become increasingly available across the world, global perinatally infected cohort is ageing. However, we know surprisingly little about what it like to grow up with in resource-stretched settings. We draw on findings from a prospective, qualitative study HIV-positive children, their carers and healthcare workers four clinics Uganda Zimbabwe examine children's experiences of living treatment. consider how experience made symbiotic relationship between shaped by broader discourses. Despite radical development prognosis for largely constructed relation language 'sickness' through promotion medicalised talk recounting past illness stories. This narrow narrative framework both reflects reproduces core dimensions lived growing HIV, which emphasises an absence resilient healthiness face ongoing vulnerability risk. The challenges that children encounter articulating alternative narratives prioritise relative buoyancy health indicative uncertainty exists around future these at this point epidemic.