HIV/AIDS, Gender, Human Security, and Violence in Southern Africa
Title | HIV/AIDS, Gender, Human Security, and Violence in Southern Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Monica Kathina Juma |
Publisher | African Books Collective |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 0798302534 |
In the 10 years since the United Nations Security Council's first resolution on HIV/AIDS, the pandemic has had far-reaching implications for human security. In sub-Saharan Africa, the epicentre of the pandemic, the consequences have been borne disproportionately by women. Violent conflicts and insecurity throughout the region, characterised by population movements, forced migration and environmental crises, have overwhelmed the capacity of states to provide preventative measures against HIV/AIDS, care and treatment. In many areas, the related stress factors on health systems and basic service provision have pushed community and kinship networks beyond their breaking points. The plight of women is exacerbated because they are vulnerable and at high risk of HIV infection, due to increased care burdens within the household and community, sexual and gender-based violence and exploitation, as well as coercive interpersonal relationships. This volume is a welcome addition to the literature on HIV/AIDS and should serve as a useful tool for Aids activists, community health workers as well as for policy makers in the region
HIV/AIDS, Gender, Human Security and Violence in Southern Africa
Title | HIV/AIDS, Gender, Human Security and Violence in Southern Africa PDF eBook |
Author | M (Monica); Klot Juma (J (Jennifer).) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2011 |
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The Many Faces of Human Security
Title | The Many Faces of Human Security PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Muloongo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Africa, Southern |
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HIV/AIDS and Society in South Africa
Title | HIV/AIDS and Society in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Ndinga-Muvumba |
Publisher | University of Kwazulu Natal Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
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Do we know how HIV/AIDS may affect different sectors of society, possibly altering the course set for development? This book presents a multidisciplinary overview of the discourse on HIV/AIDS and explores the concept of human security and the global development agenda.
Gender and HIV in South Africa
Title | Gender and HIV in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Courtenay Sprague |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 423 |
Release | 2018-03-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137559977 |
This book addresses the ongoing problem of HIV in black South African women as a health inequity. Importantly, it argues that this urgent problem of justice is changeable. Sprague uses the capabilities approach to bring a theory of health justice, together with multiple sources of evidence, to investigate the complex problem of HIV and accompanying poor health outcomes in black South African women. Motivated by a concern for application of knowledge, this work discusses how to better conceptualise what health justice demands of state and society, and how to mobilise available evidence on health inequities in ways that compel greater state action to address problems of gender and health. HIV in women, and possible responses, are investigated on four distinct levels: conceptual, social structure, health systems, and law. The analysis demonstrates that this problem is indeed modifiable with long-term interventions and an enhanced state response targeted at multiple levels. This book will be of interest to academics and students in the social health sciences, gender and development studies, and global health, as well as HIV/health activists, government officials, policy makers, HIV clinicians and health providers interested in HIV.
HIV/AIDS, gender and rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa
Title | HIV/AIDS, gender and rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Tanja R. Müller |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2023-08-28 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9086865356 |
This second publication in the AWLAE series on HIV/AIDS and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa discusses the gender dimension of HIV/AIDS impact at household and community level. It does so in using the threefold typology of gender specific constraints, gender intensified disadvantages and gender imposed constraints. Special foci of attention include the implications of gender constraints for food security in rural settings, where women are the main producers of food crops as well as the main caregivers; and how cultural norms determine the different options open to women in contrast to men in mitigating the effects of the epidemic. This last point provides the link to the last publication in the series, which discusses agricultural mitigation strategies in the context of HIV/AIDS as a challenge to human development. The text is followed by an annotated bibliography.This second publication in the AWLAE series on HIV/AIDS and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa discusses the gender dimension of HIV/AIDS impact at household and community level. It does so in using the threefold typology of gender specific constraints, gender intensified disadvantages and gender imposed constraints. Special foci of attention include the implications of gender constraints for food security in rural settings, where women are the main producers of food crops as well as the main caregivers; and how cultural norms determine the different options open to women in contrast to men in mitigating the effects of the epidemic. This last point provides the link to the last publication in the series, which discusses agricultural mitigation strategies in the context of HIV/AIDS as a challenge to human development. The text is followed by an annotated bibliography.
Women's Property Rights HIV and AIDS & Domestic Violence
Title | Women's Property Rights HIV and AIDS & Domestic Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Human Sciences Research Council |
Publisher | HSRC Publishers |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Revealing how women in many developing countries do not have the right to own or inherit property, this monograph clarifies the role of tenure security in protecting against and mitigating the effects of HIV amongst women and domestic violence. Exploring these linkages in Amajuba, South Africa, and Iganga, Uganda, this qualitative work based on peer-reviewed scientific studies and personal interviews with native women argues that property ownership, while not easily linked to women’s ability to prevent HIV infection, can nonetheless mitigate the impact of AIDS and enhance a woman’s ability to leave a violent situation. An invaluable resource for policymakers, western donors, nongovernmental organization workers, and academics, this analysis details the current land reform efforts as well as HIV/AIDS and domestic-violence policies in both countries, in Africa as a whole, and beyond.