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Refereed Journal Artciles

McDonald, K. (In Press). The old fashioned way”: HIV-positive women’s accounts of conception and sex in serodiscordant relationships. Culture, Health and Sexuality

McDonald, K. and Kirkman K. (2011). HIV-Positive Women in Australia Explain Their Use and Non-Use of Antiretroviral Therapy in Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission. AIDS Care, 23 (5), 578-584. [ERA ranking B, Impact factor 1.684]

McDonald, K. and Slavin, S. (2010). My body, my life, my choice: practices and meanings of complementary and alternative medicine among a sample of Australian people living with HIV/AIDS and their practitioners. AIDS Care, 22 (10), 1229-1235. [ERA ranking B, Impact factor 1.684]

McDonald, K. (2002). I was devastated to think I couldn't have a child: The role of motherhood in the lives of HIV-positive women in Australia. In M. Kirkman, J. M. Maher & K. Torney Souter (Eds.) The Fertile Imagination: Narratives of Reproduction Vol. 18 (2), pp. 123-141). Melbourne: Meridian.

McDonald, K., Bartos, M., & Rosenthal, D. (2001). Australian women living with HIV/AIDS are more sceptical than men about antiretroviral treatment. AIDS Care-Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV, 13(1), 15-26. [ERA ranking B, Impact factor 1.684, Scopus citations, 11]

Bartos, M., & McDonald, K. (2000). HIV as identity, experience or career. AIDS Care, 12(3), 299-306. [ERA ranking B, Impact factor 1.684, Scopus citations, 10]

McConachy, D. & McDonald, K. (1999). Issues for primary, informal, home-based carers of people living with AIDS. Australian Journal of Primary Health-Interchange (now Australian Journal of Primary Health), 5(1), 30-40. [ERA ranking B, Impact factor 0.289]

McDonald, K. (Under review). You don’t grow another head”: The experience of perceived and enacted stigma among HIV-positive women in Australia

McDonald, K. . Amir, L. & Davey, M. A. (Under review). Maternal bodies and medication: risk perception and decision-making of pregnant and breastfeeding women.

Book Chapters and other publications

McDonald (2010) ‘What about the baby?’ Women’s accounts of antiretroviral use for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission. Trick or Treat? Antiretroviral therapy as HIV prevention. AFAO Biomedical Prevention Monograph No. 1.

Lienart, L., McDonald, K. Cornman, H. & Pluies, J. (2009) Evaluation Report of the XVII International AIDS Conference AIDS 2008. International AIDS Society, Geneva, Switzerland.

McConachy, D., McDonald, K. & Booker, N. (2008) 4th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention: Evaluation Report. International AIDS Society, Geneva, Switzerland.

McDonald, K. (2007). Do you tell? … What do you tell? … When do you tell? … How do you tell? HIV positive mothers, disclosure and stigma. HIV Australia, 5(4).

McConachy, D., McDonald, K., Booker, N. & Koloshuk, B. (2007) Report of the Evaluation of the XVI International AIDS Conference. International AIDS Society, Geneva, Switzerland.

Thorpe, R., McDonald, K., & Grierson, J. (2007). HIV Futures Five: Life as women know it. Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University.

McDonald, K. (2006). Common Threads: Positive women discuss pregnancy, parenting and living with HIV. Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University and Positive Women Victoria.

McDonald, K. (2006) Notions of Health Campaign Evaluation Report. Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO).

Hurley, M., Croy, S., & McDonald, K. (2006). 'The Words to Say It' Project, PLWHA (Vic). Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University.

McDonald, K., Thorpe, R., & Grierson, J. (2005). The Journey Continues: Women living with HIV/AIDS in Australia. Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University.

McDonald, K. (2003) Positive Women: Who are we not researching? HIV Australia, 2 (9).

McDonald, K., & Hurley, M., (eds)., (2002). Motherhood and HIV positive women in Australia: Papers from the HIV Futures I & II surveys and interviews. Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University.

McDonald, K. & Hurley, M. (eds). (2002) Antiretroviral treatments: similarities and differences between women and men. Papers from the HIV Futures I and II surveys and interviews. Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University.

McDonald, K., Misson, S., & Grierson, J. (2002). Juggling with HIV: The intricacies of positive women's lives in Australia today. Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University.

Grierson, J., Misson, S., McDonald, K., Pitts, M. and O’Brien, M. (2002) HIV Futures 3: Positive Australians on Services, Health and Well Being. Monograph Series Number 37. The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Willis, J., McDonald, K., Saunders, M. and Grierson, J. (2002) HIV Futures II: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Living with HIV, Monograph Series Number 30, The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

McDonald, K. (2000). A snapshot of a complex uncertainty: Women on health, hope and living with HIV in Australia. Talkabout, 111, 9-10.

McDonald, K., Grierson, J., de Visser, R., & Bartos, M. (2000). A complex uncertainty: Women on health, hope and HIV. Melbourne: Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University.

Grierson, J., Bartos, M., de Visser, R. & McDonald, K. (2000). HIV Futures II: The Health and Well-being of People with HIV/AIDS in Australia. Monograph Series No. 17. Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University.

McDonald, K. & Grierson, J. (2000). HIV Futures II: People with Haemophilia. Monograph Series No. 26. Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University.

de Visser, R., Grierson, J., Bartos, M., McDonald, K., Ezzy, D. & Rosenthal, D.A. (1999). A Different Epidemic: HIV-positive Heterosexual Men in the HIV Futures Survey. Monograph Series Number 11. Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University.

McDonald, K., Bartos, M., de Visser, R., Ezzy, D., & Rosenthal, D. (1998). Standing on shifting sand: Women living with HIV/AIDS in Australia. Melbourne: National Centre in HIV Social Research, La Trobe University.

Ezzy, D.M., de Visser, R., Bartos, M., McDonald, K., O’Donnell, D. & Rosenthal, D.A. (1998). HIV Futures Community Report: Health, Relationships, Community and Employment. Monograph Series No 4, National Centre in HIV Social Research, Centre for the Study of Sexually Transmissible Diseases, La Trobe University.

McConachy, D., McDonald, K., Wilkins, R., Hammet, K., Grubb, I. & Cristaudo, P. (1997). Under-Trained, Under-Resourced, But Always There: The Experiences of Primary, Informal Carers of People Living with HIV/AIDS. National Centre in HIV Social Research, Centre for the Study of Sexually Transmissible Diseases, La Trobe University.

O’Donnell, D. & McDonald, K. (1997). Informal Carers of PLWHA are deterred from using support services, study reveals. National AIDS Bulletin, 11(5), 9.