Rhine, Kathryn Angela2014-05-062014-05-062009-03Rhine, Kathryn A. (2009) "Support Groups, Marriage, and the Management of Ambiguity among HIV-Positive Women in Northern Nigeria" Anthropol Q. 2009 ; 82(2): 369–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/anq.0.0067.https://hdl.handle.net/1808/13629In the context of the African HIV epidemic, support groups are not simply spaces for discussions of social and health well-being; neither are they institutions functioning solely to cultivate self-responsible and economically empowered patients. HIV-positive women in northern Nigeria have appropriated a support group to facilitate their marriage arrangements. In this group, women negotiate the threats of stigma and the promises of respectable marriage through what I call the management of ambiguity surrounding their HIV status. I further argue that the practice of support group matchmaking reveals the local political economic dynamics that shape social and illness trajectories in resource-poor settings.HIV/AIDSStigmaSupport GroupsKinshipGender PoliticsNigeriaArticle10.1353/anq.0.0067.http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1133365http://id.worldcat.org/fast/987769http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1205229Stigma (Social psychology)KinshipNigeriaopenAccess