ABSTRACT
During the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, all that was written and discussed about AIDS and its implications was drawn from the experiences of men who had sex with men. More recently, several books highlighting the issues for women have been published, (e.g. Richardson 1988, Rieder and Ruppelt 1989) and conferences around the topic of Women and AIDS have been organised. However, there has been very little analysis of the experience of women who are antibody positive or who have AIDS and there is still only a small voice heard from those women who are most profoundly affected by the virus.
