Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Zanzibar UNGASS Progress Report
Author: Zanzibar UNGASS Progress Reporting 2012
Author: Tume ya UKIMWI ZanzibarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : AIDS (Disease)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Zanzibar United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV & AIDS 2012
Author: UNGASS 2007
Author: Vulnerabilities, Impacts, and Responses to HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Getnet TadelePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137009950
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This book examines HIV/AIDS vulnerabilities, impacts and responses in the socioeconomic and cultural context of Sub-Saharan Africa. With contributions from social scientists and public health experts, the volume identifies gender inequality and poverty as the main causes of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.
Promoting Abstinence, Being Faithful, and Condom Use with Young Africans
Author: Mary Louisa PlummerPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739168452
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Promotion of the low risk “ABC” behaviors—Abstinence, Being faithful, and Condom use—has had only limited success in Africa. This book draws on a large qualitative study affiliated with an adolescent intervention trial to examine how ABC promotion can be improved. It evaluates the MEMA kwa Vijana sexual health program, which was implemented in 62 primary schools and 18 health facilities in rural Tanzania, scrutinizing its teacher-led curriculum, peer education, youth-friendly health services, youth condom distribution, and community mobilization components. The book examines how implementing such a low-cost, large-scale program involved many compromises, including those between national policies and international “best practice” recommendations, between the most desirable intervention design and one that was affordable and sustainable at a large scale, between optimal teaching methods and real-world teaching capacity, between ideal curriculum content and what was acceptable to the local community, and between adults’ values and youths’ realities. The program’s impact is evaluated by triangulating findings from three person-years of participant observation, in-depth interviews, survey interviews, and biomedical tests. The book also provides in-depth case studies to examine the motivations and strategies of extraordinary young people who practiced ABC behaviors. It outlines broad principles for ABC promotion, including: acknowledging existing youth sexual relationships; promoting each low risk behavior in complexity and depth; working with preexisting, culturally compelling motivations; and intervening at individual, interpersonal, community, and structural levels. Many recommendations for the promotion of specific ABC behaviors are discussed, such as reducing pressures and incentives for girls to have sex; targeting male risk-perception and self-preservation; promoting alternative forms of masculinity than sexual conquest; strengthening premarital and marital relationships; tailoring fidelity programs for hidden couples, couples planning to marry, and monogamous and polygynous married partners; and addressing pleasure, trust, pregnancy prevention, and fertility protection in condom promotion. The book concludes with additional recommendations specific to school programs, and a review of promising complementary interventions for out-of-school youth, women, men, couples, and parents.
Zanzibar National Multisectoral HIV Monitoring and Evaluation System
Author: Stigmatization, Discrimination and Illness
Author: Bohle, Leah FranziskaPublisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
ISBN: 3863951085
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
“She was given her own plate, her own cup, everything of her own, even when she just touched a cloth then nobody wanted to touch it again.” (Halima, HIV-seropositive) The book sheds light on the profound influence of an HIV-seropositive diagnosis on the lives of women and their social environment in the United Republic of Tanzania. The author, a medical doctor and social anthropologist, tells the story of six Tanzanian HIV-seropositive women, focusing on their negotiation and perception of illness and disease. Furthermore, the high levels of discrimination and stigmatization in the context of HIV-seropositivity that they experience are presented in detail, weaving together the impacts of an HIV-seropositive diagnosis with results analyzed both from a Medical Anthropology and Public Health perspective. Despite a new era of antiretroviral treatment, available in Tanzania free of cost, that has given cause for hope in a change in how the disease is perceived, the book impressively underlines that being HIV-seropositive remains a great challenge and heavy burden for women in Tanzania.
Gender and HIV & AIDS in Zanzibar
Author: American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 26:3
Author: Amadu Jacky KabaPublisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) is a double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world: anthropology, economics, history, philosophy and meta-physics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam. Submissions are subject to a blind peer review process.