ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 explored the HIV disclosure decision-making process. We focused on the criteria people use to develop rules to manage their privacy boundaries concerning revealing and concealing the HIV diagnosis. Once someone makes a disclosure about their HIV status, CPM (see chap. 2) argues that a personal privacy boundary becomes a collective boundary as the discloser and the disclosure recipient are linked together. Boundary linkages may result from the verbal and alternative message strategies people use to disclose. This chapter explores how people disclose their HIV seropositive status through an exploration of specific message strategies.
