AWARE’s next roundtable will be held on 9 December, featuring speaker Mee-Lian as she shares the results of our study on the attitudes, sexual practices and concerns of women with HIV or living with HIV-positive husbands or partners in Singapore.

In-depth interviews were conducted with 60 women between 2007 and 2012. The study found that many married women were monogamous and had acquired HIV from their husbands. While some of the women were keen to use condoms after diagnosis, a significant proportion could not persuade their husbands to use condoms consistently. After being diagnosed with HIV, almost all stayed married and a smaller number continued to engage in sexual intercourse with their husbands.

The women surveyed expressed concerns about the high cost of medications, social stigma and the desire to have children. They clearly require holistic care to help them cope with the negative impact of the illness on their well being.

Event Details
Date: 9 December 2013 (Monday)
Time: 7.30pm
Location: AWARE Centre
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About the Speaker

Mee-Lian is Associate Professor of Public Health at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, Singapore (NUS) and Director of the National Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Singapore. She teaches health promotion and behavioral change in the MBBS and MPH programs and has done specific research on the control of sexually transmitted infections such as HIV/AIDS. She received her MBBS and MPH from the University of Malaya and her Doctor of Medicine from the National University of Singapore. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore and a Fellow by distinction of the Faculty of Public Health, United Kingdom.