By Dr Asha Sofia Persson

Book Chapters

Persson A; Hughes SD, 2017, 'Introduction: Making “Difference”: New Perspectives on HIV Serodiscordance', in Social Aspects of HIV, Springer International Publishing, pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42725-6_1

Newman CE; Persson AS; Ellard J, 2016, 'Pills, providers and partners: Exploring trust among serodiscordant couples in Australia', in Persson AS; Hughes S (ed.), Cross-cultural perspectives on couples with mixed HIV status: Beyond positive/negative, Springer, pp. 265 - 276, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42725-6_21

Persson AS; Hughes SD, 2016, 'Making “difference”: New perspectives on HIV serodiscordance.', in Persson AS; Hughes SD (ed.), Cross-cultural perspectives on couples with mixed HIV status: Beyond positive/negative., Springer, Switzerland, pp. 1 - 12, http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-42725-6_1

Persson AS; Newman CE; Miller A, 2016, ''There's more to you than just this virus': Young people growing up with perinatally acquired HIV in Australia', in Liamputtong P (ed.), Children and Young People Living with HIV/AIDS : a cross-cultural perspective, Springer International Publishing, pp. 107 - 124, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29936-5_6

Edited Books

Persson AS; Hughes SD, (ed.), 2016, Cross-cultural perspectives on couples with mixed HIV status: Beyond positive/negative., Springer, Switzerland, http://www.springer.com/in/book/9783319427232

Journal articles

Mowbray E; Costello J; Morgan P; Persson A; Boydell K; Bateson D; Leane K; An A; Nathan S; Newman C; Carter A, 2024, '“Tears turning to diamonds:” creating empathic understanding toward women living with HIV through contemplative viewing of a virtual art exhibition', Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15381501.2024.2413497

Persson A; Mek A; Naketrumb R; Mitchell E; Bell S; Kelly-Hanku A, 2024, 'Local Pathways of “Serodiscordant Couples”: Unpacking a Global HIV Population Category in Papua New Guinea', Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 43, pp. 31 - 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2023.2282976

Persson A; Jops P; Cowan J; Kupul M; Nake Trumb R; Majumdar SS; Islam S; Nindil H; Pomat W; Bell S; Marks G; Bauri M; Graham SM; Kelly-Hanku A, 2024, 'Tuberculosis treatment and undernutrition on Daru Island, Papua New Guinea: A qualitative exploration of a local foodscape', Social Science & Medicine, pp. 117631 - 117631, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117631

Valentine K; Smith AKJ; Persson A; Gray R; Bryant J; Hamilton M; Wallace J; Drysdale K; Newman CE, 2023, 'The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: exploring service providers' perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics', Medical Humanities, 49, pp. 48 - 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2022-012382

Persson A; Kelly-Hanku A; Mek A; Mitchell E; Trumb RN; Worth H; Bell S, 2023, '“We Live Just Like a Normal Family”: Exploring Local Renderings of the Global HIV Normalisation Discourse Among Serodiscordant Couples in Papua New Guinea', Sexuality and Culture, 27, pp. 19 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12119-022-10001-x

Persson A, 2023, 'Heart cracked open: from personal loss to radical mourning', Mortality, 28, pp. 189 - 203, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2021.1918075

Bryant J; Smith AKJ; Persson A; Valentine K; Drysdale K; Wallace J; Hamilton M; Newman CE, 2023, 'Logics of control and self-management in narratives of people living with HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B', Culture, Health and Sexuality, 25, pp. 1214 - 1229, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2022.2149858

Wells N; Philpot SP; Murphy D; Ellard J; Howard C; Rule J; Fairley C; Prestage G; Brown G; Jin J; Kaldor J; Guy R; Grulich A; Mao L; Donovan B; Persson A; Medland N; Clifton B; Hilton P; Hammoud M; Malhotra S; Bastian L, 2022, 'Belonging, social connection and non-clinical care: Experiences of HIV peer support among recently diagnosed people living with HIV in Australia', Health and Social Care in the Community, 30, pp. e4793 - e4801, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13886

Persson A; Smith AKJ; Wallace J; valentine K; Bryant J; Hamilton M; Newman CE, 2022, 'Understanding ‘risk’ in families living with mixed blood-borne viral infection status: The doing and undoing of ‘difference’', Health (United Kingdom), 26, pp. 284 - 301, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459320946469

Drysdale K; Persson A; Smith AKJ; Wallace J; valentine K; Gray RM; Bryant J; Hamilton M; Newman CE, 2022, 'Professional perspectives on serodiscordant family service provision in the context of blood-borne viruses', Health Sociology Review, 32, pp. 145 - 160, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2022.2110922

Smith AKJ; Persson A; Drysdale K; Bryant J; valentine K; Wallace J; Hamilton M; Gray RM; Newman CE, 2021, 'Family imaginaries in the disclosure of a blood-borne virus', Sociology of Health and Illness, 43, pp. 1422 - 1436, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13316

Persson A; Kelly-Hanku A; Mek A; Mitchell E; Nake Trumb R; Worth H; Bell S, 2021, 'Making Sense of Serodiscordance: Pathways and Aftermaths of HIV Testing among Couples with Mixed HIV Status in Papua New Guinea', Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 22, pp. 298 - 314, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2021.1942184

Philpot SP; Persson A; Prestage G; Bavinton BR; Ellard J, 2020, 'The ‘normality’ of living as a gay serodiscordant couple in Sydney, Australia', Sociology of Health and Illness, 42, pp. 1837 - 1857, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13171

valentine K; Persson A; Newman CE; Hamilton M; Bryant J; Wallace J, 2020, 'Commentary on Alex Stevens (2020) Critical realism and the ‘ontological politics of drug policy'', International Journal of Drug Policy, 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102879

Persson A; Kelly-Hanku A; Mek A; Mitchell E; Nake Trumb R; Worth H; Bell S, 2020, 'Polygyny, Serodiscordance and HIV Prevention in Papua New Guinea: A Qualitative Exploration of Diverse Configurations', Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 21, pp. 248 - 263, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14442213.2020.1758202

valentine K; Persson A; Newman CE; Hamilton M; Bryant J; Wallace J, 2020, 'Experience as Evidence: The Prospects for Biographical Narratives in Drug Policy', Contemporary Drug Problems, 47, pp. 191 - 209, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091450920916244

Drysdale K; Newman CE; Persson A; Gray RM, 2019, 'Mapping Experiences of Serodiscordance: Using Visual Methodologies to Construct Relationality in Families Living With or Affected by Stigmatized Infectious Disease.', Qual Health Res, 30, pp. 793 - 808, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732319890304

Mitchell E; Kelly-Hanku A; Mek A; Nake Trumb R; Persson A; Worth H; Bell SA, 2019, 'Caring Masculinities in the Context of HIV Serodiscordant Relationships in Papua New Guinea', Men and Masculinities, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184X19889659

Newman C; Persson A; Kumar S; Lea T; Aggleton P, 2019, 'Experiences of Family Belonging among Two Generations of Sexually Diverse Australians', Family Relations, 69, pp. 292 - 307, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fare.12411

Persson A; Newman C; valentine K; Hamilton M; Bryant J; Wallace J; Gray R, 2019, 'The embodied relationality of blood-borne viruses: How families matter in the context of a stigmatised viral infection', Social Science and Medicine, 243, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112620

Persson A; Newman CE; Manolas P; Holt M; Callander D; Gordon T; de Wit J, 2019, 'Challenging Perceptions of “Straight”: Heterosexual Men Who Have Sex with Men and the Cultural Politics of Sexual Identity Categories', Men and Masculinities, 22, pp. 694 - 715, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184X17718586

Persson A; Newman C; Rasmussen ML; Marshall D; Cover R; Aggleton P, 2019, 'Queerying Notions of “Difference” Among Two Generations of Australians Who Do Not Identify Heteronormatively', Sexuality and Culture, 24, pp. 54 - 71, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12119-019-09625-3

Persson A; Kelly-Hanku A; Bell S; Mek A; Worth H; Nake Trumb R, 2019, '“Vibrant Entanglements”: HIV Biomedicine and Serodiscordant Couples in Papua New Guinea', Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 38, pp. 267 - 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2018.1530670

Newman C; Hughes S; Persson A; Truong H-H; Holt M, 2019, 'Promoting ‘equitable access’ to PrEP in Australia: accounting for stakeholder perspectives', AIDS and Behavior, 23, pp. 1846 - 1857, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-018-2311-2

Hasan MK; Aggleton P; Persson A, 2018, 'Sexual Practices and Sexual Health Among Three Generations of Men in Bangladesh: Exploring Gender- and Sexuality-Assemblages', Sexuality and Culture, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12119-018-9566-7

Newman CE; Persson A; Ellard J, 2018, 'When HIV figures in family life: exploring the relational reach of serodiscordance', Sexuality and Culture, 22, pp. 1527 - 1541, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12119-018-9542-2

Newman CE; Persson A; Manolas P; Schmidt HMA; Ooi C; Rutherford A; de Wit J, 2018, '“So Much Is at Stake”: Professional Views on Engaging Heterosexually Identified Men who Have Sex with Men with Sexual Health Care in Australia', Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 15, pp. 302 - 311, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13178-017-0291-z

Mao L; Buchanan A; Wong HTH; Persson A, 2018, 'Beyond mere pill taking: SMS reminders for HIV treatment adherence delivered to mobile phones of clients in a community support network in Australia', Health and Social Care in the Community, 26, pp. 486 - 494, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12544

Hamilton M; Botfield J; Persson A; Newman C; Bryant J; valentine K; Wallace J, 2018, 'Hidden Carers? a Scoping Review of the Needs Of Carers of People with HIV in the Contemporary Treatment Era', International Journal of Care and Caring, 2, pp. 529 - 549, http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/239788218X15411705099442

Persson A; Newman CE; Ellard J, 2017, 'Breaking Binaries? Biomedicine and Serostatus Borderlands among Couples with Mixed HIV Status', Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 36, pp. 699 - 713, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2017.1298594

Hasan MK; Aggleton P; Persson A, 2017, 'The makings of a man: social generational masculinities in Bangladesh', Journal of Gender Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2017.1388773

Persson A; Newman CE; Hamilton M; Bryant J; Wallace J; valentine K, 2017, 'Families Living with Blood-Borne Viruses: The Case for Extending the Concept of “Serodiscordance”', Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2017, pp. 4352783, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4352783

Persson AS; Newman CE; Manolas P; Holt M; Callander D; Gordon T; de Wit J, 2017, 'Challenging perceptions of “straight”: Heterosexual men who have sex with men and the cultural politics of sexual identity categories', Men and Masculinities, 22, pp. 694 - 715, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1097184X17718586

Persson A; Newman CE; Miller A, 2017, 'Caring for ‘underground’ kids: qualitative interviews with clinicians about key issues for young people growing up with perinatally acquired HIV in Australia', International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 22, pp. 1 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2013.866149

Persson A; Newman CE; Mao L; de Wit J, 2016, 'On the Margins of Pharmaceutical Citizenship: Not Taking HIV Medication in the “Treatment Revolution” Era', Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 30, pp. 359 - 377, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maq.12274

Persson A; Ellard J; Newman CE, 2016, 'Bridging the HIV Divide: Stigma, Stories and Serodiscordant Sexuality in the Biomedical Age', Sexuality and Culture, 20, pp. 197 - 213, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12119-015-9316-z

Newman CE; Persson A; Bains A; De Wit J, 2016, 'Whose voices inform online representations of HIV treatment as prevention?', AIDS, 30, pp. 808 - 810, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000000983

Persson A, 2016, ''The world has changed': Pharmaceutical citizenship and the reimagining of serodiscordant sexuality among couples with mixed HIV status in Australia', Sociology of Health and Illness, 38, pp. 380 - 395, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12347

Newman CE; Persson A; Miller A; Brown RJ, 2015, ''Just take your medicine and everything will be fine': Responsibilisation narratives in accounts of transitioning young people with HIV into adult care services in Australia', AIDS Care, 28, pp. 131 - 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2015.1069790

Newman CE; Mao L; Persson A; Holt M; Slavin S; Kidd MR; Post JJ; Wright E; De Wit J, 2015, ''Not Until I'm Absolutely Half-Dead and Have To:' Accounting for Non-Use of Antiretroviral Therapy in Semi-Structured Interviews with People Living with HIV in Australia', AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 29, pp. 267 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/apc.2014.0301

Hasan MK; Aggleton P; Persson A, 2015, 'Rethinking Gender, Men and Masculinity: Representations of men in the South Asian Reproductive and Sexual Health Literatures', International Journal of Men's Health, 14, pp. 146 - 162, http://dx.doi.org/10.3149/jmh.1402.146

Newman C; de Wit J; Persson AS; Holt M; Slavin S; Kidd M; Post J; Wright E; Mao L, 2015, 'Understanding concerns about HIV treatment-as-prevention among people with HIV who are not using antiretroviral therapy', AIDS and Behavior, 19, pp. 821 - 831, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-014-0959-9

Persson A, 2014, 'Significant ambivalence: perspectives of Australian HIV service providers on universal treatment-as-prevention (TasP) for serodiscordant couples', Critical Public Health, 17 February, pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2014.886005

Persson A, 2014, '"I don't blame that guy that gave it to me": Contested discourses of victimisation and culpability in the narratives of heterosexual women infected with HIV', AIDS Care, 26, pp. 233 - 239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2013.811207

Newman ; Persson AS; Miller A; Cama E, 2014, 'Bridging worlds, breaking rules: Clinician perspectives on transitioning young people with perinatally acquired HIV into adult care in a low prevalence setting', AIDS Patient Care and Stds, 28, pp. 381 - 393, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/apc.2013.0346

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