Stateless hill tribes living with HIV/AIDS are the most vulnerable population in Thailand. This article adopts the issue of the structural and cultural violence of Johan Galtung as a conceptual framework and analytical tool to narrate their experiences. Data encompassing the experiences of structural and cultural violence were collected from the 53 eligible stateless hill tribes living with HIV/AIDS recruited from 10 district hospitals and 15 communities in Chiang Rai, Thailand, using a combination of the snowball technique and purposive sampling. The present authors argue that the stateless hill tribes living with HIV/AIDS mainly experienced the following two dimensions of violence: 1) statelessness as a structural violence practice and 2) stigma as a cultural violence practice. This study revealed the subjective experiences of stateless hill tribes living with HIV/AIDS in Chiang Rai, Thailand, while engaging with the violence sphere.
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