{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.03126809496236248, 'fraction_numerical': 0.029530978575564564, 'mean_word_length': 5.329670329670329, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
V. Reinscribing Black Women's Position within HIV and AIDS Discourses

HIV and AIDS continue to have a significant impact, especially on the lives of black women, around the world (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2004; World Health Organization, 2006). In 2006, it was estimated that 37.2 million adults were living with HIV or AIDS, and over 17 million of these were women, 59 percent of whom were residing in Sub-Saharan Africa (World Health Organization, 2006). Such statistical reporting provides a snapshot of the epidemic: who is HIV positive and where these individuals live. Information regarding HIV infection and transmission rates is collected and reported by public health authorities with the stated aim of monitoring and improving health status (Farmer, 2001; Petersen and Lupton, 1996). However, along with this snapshot, the preoccupation of epidemiological science with presenting hard numbers and ‘facts’ shapes how the disease is conceptualized, treated and researched (De Guzman, 2001); these numbers are laden with discourses tied to gender, race and class (Treichler and Warren, 1998) that might aid the marginalization and stigmatization of black HIV positive women. As a black female academic, researching black women with HIV and AIDS seems both methodologically and personally significant. Incorporating reflection into my research led me to question how my research could give voice to the unheard accounts and experiences of black women living with HIV and AIDS, while positioning them as subjects within HIV and AIDS discourses, rather than objects (Gill, 1995; Holloway, 1989; Ramazanoglu and Holland, 2002). In conducting my own research with HIV positive African and African American