期刊名称：Mizoram University Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2395-7352
出版年度：2020
卷号：6
期号：2
页码：205-213
语种：English
出版社：Mizoram University
摘要：Gender inequalities tend to influence women’s utilization of health services and those with intravenous drug use with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are the worst hit. Drug use and drug peddling plague the region and sharing of injecting equipment caused the rising HIV infection among users resulting Mizoram topping among States with 2.04% infection rate. The qualitative study, bracing relational theory and context of gender equality framework, aimed at understanding how Female Injecting Drug Users (FIDU) of Champhai district of Mizoram experience gender inequality and discrimination and how the same impacts their health service uptakes. Individual interviews with service providers as Key Informants (KI) and focus groups with HIV positive FIDUs formed the base of data collection with literature review. Snowball sampling was adopted to recruit participants given the hidden nature of FIDUs. Data analysis was done using the framework approach and informed by theories of risk environments. A summary of socio-demographics with drug use patterns of participants was generated using Microsoft Excel systems. Transcripts were analyzed through QAD MINAR software and codes were generated. This study identified important structural and contextual factors that affect the uptake of the preventive health services by FIDUs. The findings suggest systemic interventions that reduce community deprivation and social disorder likely to yield important benefits.
