title: Identity Factory: HIV/AIDS and the Figure of Its Sufferer in Early Independent Ukraine
abstract: The article provides an analysis of state discourses on HIV/AIDS and the figure of its sufferer in Ukraine during the early years of the state independence.It examines various analytical categories i.e. race, age, sexuality, drug use, space, etc. involved in the discursive formation of the figure of HIV/AIDS sufferer.In the article, it is not my intention to deny the importance of personal responsibility in prevention of HIV-spread; nor do I intend to say that political-economic and social hards
journal: Indiana Magazine of History (Indiana University)