Interviews and biographical time: the case of long-term HIV nonprogressors

In 1996-1997, I interviewed 30 men and women who, though infected with HIV nearly 10 years earlier, were still not sick and were not receiving treatme nt. The empirical data drawn from these interviews are used to show how the conditions and context of this research affected the stances adopted by in terviewees and led them to centre their comments on their experience of tim e. The analysis of these data focused on the form of the interview and the conception of time. A typology is proposed of how time was constructed duri ng interviews.