Sexual violence as a limiting factor on the perception and management of the risk of HIV in women married to migrants.
Yesica Yolanda Rangel Flores
PMID 27598375WHAT IT FOUND
Women married to migrants described forced sex and partners' new sexual practices, yet normalized them and saw HIV as a risk only for others.
They could not negotiate condoms, even when they feared infection.
Key findings
01Women reported violence within marriage and their wider family, but many did not recognize sexual violence as violence because it was normalized in these contexts.
02Many women exonerated themselves from HIV risk by viewing it as a disease of sex workers and gay men.
03Women's ability to use condoms was limited by moral beliefs about condom use and by partners' refusal, anger, or violence.
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What it does not show
Twenty-one women were interviewed in two communities, so the themes may not apply to other groups. Snowball recruitment through networks may have reached women already connected to other women married to migrants and may have missed more isolated women. The study describes perceptions and experiences, not measured HIV outcomes or effectiveness of nursing strategies. Because sexual violence was normalized, interviews may not have identified every coercive encounter.
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The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that these women simply need HIV education or that nurses can assume they know the risk. The paper shows that fear of partner anger, violence, and moral beliefs about condoms limited their ability to negotiate protection, and it tested no intervention.