TY - JOUR
T1 - Gaining a “normal life”
T2 - HIV-positive Indonesian female injection drug users in drug recovery
AU - Yona, Sri
AU - Ismail, Rita
AU - Nurachmah, Elly
AU - Levy, Judith
AU - Norr, Kathleen
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by The Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago under Grant NIH: D43 TW001419 and The UIC/AJCU Training Program in Advanced Research Methods and Translational Science under Grant 1D43TW010935. The authors thank all participants who generously participated in this research and the three NGOs and their staff who helped the author during recruitment and data collection.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - The number of female injection drug users in Indonesia is rapidly increasing. This study explores the experiences of women living with HIV in recovery from heroin injection. Using a ground theory approach, 22 women former drug users in Jakarta participated in this study. Six themes emerged: the challenges of quitting, the role of self-motivation, the utility of methadone treatment, the importance of partner and family support, the transformation of “self” and situation, and the rewards of a normal life if successful. These women’s accounts point to the personal and cultural challenges that they faced as women, wives, and mothers.
AB - The number of female injection drug users in Indonesia is rapidly increasing. This study explores the experiences of women living with HIV in recovery from heroin injection. Using a ground theory approach, 22 women former drug users in Jakarta participated in this study. Six themes emerged: the challenges of quitting, the role of self-motivation, the utility of methadone treatment, the importance of partner and family support, the transformation of “self” and situation, and the rewards of a normal life if successful. These women’s accounts point to the personal and cultural challenges that they faced as women, wives, and mothers.
KW - HIV
KW - Indonesian female drug users
KW - women in drug recovery
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85064514542&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15332640.2019.1598904
DO - 10.1080/15332640.2019.1598904
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85064514542
SN - 1533-2640
VL - 20
SP - 117
EP - 134
JO - Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse
JF - Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse
IS - 1
ER -
