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Background: In Iran, there has been a considerable increase in the
number of women infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Within a
socio-political context, social rights inequality of HIV positivity is still a
prevailing concern among women. Little is known about the understanding of how
Iranian women living with HIV, live their social rights experience. The aim of
this study was to examine lived experience of these women against their social
rights.
Methods: In this qualitative study, a phenomenological–hermeneutic
framework was adopted. We conducted narrative interviews with sixteen women. A
purposeful sample of Iranian women was chosen.
Results: Five themes were identified to understand the
experience of social rights in women: 1) A state of profound suffering 2) lack
support 3) Insecurity in a social-economic life 4) Any respecting and 5)
Exerting oneself to keeping. For these women, social rights by their HIV status
meant: Living the ambivalence of a process of equality/inequality.
Conclusion: Health professionals have to broaden their role and
work on individual, interpersonal and inter-organizational levels. Mobilization
of actors from different sectors would facilitate the implementation of
pertinent and opportune interventions.
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