Brenda Vales
Biographic Data
| ID | 74555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brenda Vales |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brenda |
| FAMILY NAME | Vales |
| SIGNATURE | VALES B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Policy Management |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4289-2134 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The virus in the queues
Queues have been at the centre of South Africa's COVID-19 story. National lockdown was declared on 26 March 2020, around the time 'month-end' salaries and government grants are paid out. Within the first few days, reports came of the long lines outside banks and supermarkets, with journalists regularly citing people's failure to 'social distance'. This article uses the queue as an analytic tool to explore the unequal vulnerabilities entailed in t…
Karoo Sanatorium
In the early twentieth century, with tuberculosis taking hold in many European cities, sanatoriums in South Africa's semi-arid Karoo region were emerging as prime healing destinations for "consumptive immigrants." Today, the Karoo continues to be marketed as a reprieve from the pathogens of city life, most recently as a "low-viral escape" amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Inspired by ethnographic and archival research, this dystopian fiction imagines t…
Power to participants
Whilst the HIV response has made significant progress in increasing representation of adults affected by HIV, the meaningful inclusion of children and adolescents has lagged. But this may be a pivotal moment of change. We report on a decade of conducting adolescent advisory groups in South Africa, to reflect on youth advisory processes. Data was collected from 2008 to 2018 from adolescent advisors (n = 60) and researchers (n = 25), and included f…
Yummy or crummy?’ The multisensory components of medicines-taking among HIV-positive youth
The global rollout of Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) has revealed an urgent need to understand the medicines-taking practices of HIV-positive adolescents. In the last decade, the literature on the social determinants of health has broadened the evidence-base on ART adherence. Interdisciplinary studies have expanded conceptions of medicines-taking beyond clinical or health systems frameworks, recognising the importance of socio-structural conditio…
Pesky metrics
The global rollout of antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV is one of the largest public health interventions ever undertaken. As the rollout expands, a growing body of research has focused on adherence to ART: how is it measured, what are the flaws of these metrics, and how may these be improved? We provide an overview of current, critical developments in adherence research among adolescents, and of how research on adherence to ART among adoles…
Buildings That Teach
Bureaucracies of Blood and Belonging
In response to its constitutional commitments and social welfare provisions in the era of democracy, the post-apartheid South African state is increasingly called upon to provide for the lives and livelihoods of its citizens. These demands have intensified amid escalating joblessness and the highest numbers of people living with HIV worldwide. Over the past decade, antiretroviral treatment (ART) has been incorporated into an ever-expanding welfar…
Negotiations of Blame and Care among HIV-positive Mothers and Daughters in South Africa's Eastern Cape
Research delineates two epidemiological categories among HIV-positive adolescents: those who contract the virus sexually and those who inherit it as infants. In this article, we are interested in how tacit inferences about adolescents' mode of infection contribute to their experiences of HIV-related blame, and their ability to achieve care, in their intimate, everyday settings. The analysis arises from ethnographic research with 23 HIV-positive a…
Redeeming Lost Mothers
In this article, we explore how adolescent antiretroviral treatment (ART) might be signified to repair sociality in Eastern Cape homes that have been ruptured by HIV/AIDS and maternal loss. The post-apartheid period has exposed these families to new forms of social fragmentation, propelled by the disintegration of wage labor, declining marriage rates, and a rampant HIV/AIDS epidemic. Drawing on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork (August 2013-…
Mobilising AID(S)? Contesting HIV as a Social and Economic Resource among Youth in South Africa's Eastern Cape
This article explores how perinatally infected youth in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa tactically engage with both the burdens and potential resources of growing up with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Further, it asks how this might shape their interpretation and practice of anti-retroviral therapy (ART). By activating particular categories of need – related to death, illness and orphanhood – HIV-positive youth and their famil…
Bureaucracies of Blood and Belonging
In response to its constitutional commitments and social welfare provisions in the era of democracy, the post-apartheid South African state is increasingly called upon to provide for the lives and livelihoods of its citizens. These demands have intensified amid escalating joblessness and the highest numbers of people living with HIV worldwide. Over the past decade, antiretroviral treatment (ART) has been incorporated into an ever-expanding welfar…
Redeeming Lost Mothers
In this article, we explore how adolescent antiretroviral treatment (ART) might be signified to repair sociality in Eastern Cape homes that have been ruptured by HIV/AIDS and maternal loss. The post-apartheid period has exposed these families to new forms of social fragmentation, propelled by the disintegration of wage labor, declining marriage rates, and a rampant HIV/AIDS epidemic. Drawing on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork (August 2013-…
Negotiations of Blame and Care among HIV-positive Mothers and Daughters in South Africa's Eastern Cape
Research delineates two epidemiological categories among HIV-positive adolescents: those who contract the virus sexually and those who inherit it as infants. In this article, we are interested in how tacit inferences about adolescents' mode of infection contribute to their experiences of HIV-related blame, and their ability to achieve care, in their intimate, everyday settings. The analysis arises from ethnographic research with 23 HIV-positive a…
Buildings That Teach
Mobilising AID(S)? Contesting HIV as a Social and Economic Resource among Youth in South Africa's Eastern Cape
This article explores how perinatally infected youth in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa tactically engage with both the burdens and potential resources of growing up with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Further, it asks how this might shape their interpretation and practice of anti-retroviral therapy (ART). By activating particular categories of need – related to death, illness and orphanhood – HIV-positive youth and their famil…
Mobilising AID(S)? Contesting HIV as a Social and Economic Resource among Youth in South Africa's Eastern Cape
This article explores how perinatally infected youth in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa tactically engage with both the burdens and potential resources of growing up with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Further, it asks how this might shape their interpretation and practice of anti-retroviral therapy (ART). By activating particular categories of need – related to death, illness and orphanhood – HIV-positive youth and their famil…
Redeeming Lost Mothers
In this article, we explore how adolescent antiretroviral treatment (ART) might be signified to repair sociality in Eastern Cape homes that have been ruptured by HIV/AIDS and maternal loss. The post-apartheid period has exposed these families to new forms of social fragmentation, propelled by the disintegration of wage labor, declining marriage rates, and a rampant HIV/AIDS epidemic. Drawing on eight months of ethnographic fieldwork (August 2013-…
Bureaucracies of Blood and Belonging
In response to its constitutional commitments and social welfare provisions in the era of democracy, the post-apartheid South African state is increasingly called upon to provide for the lives and livelihoods of its citizens. These demands have intensified amid escalating joblessness and the highest numbers of people living with HIV worldwide. Over the past decade, antiretroviral treatment (ART) has been incorporated into an ever-expanding welfar…
Negotiations of Blame and Care among HIV-positive Mothers and Daughters in South Africa's Eastern Cape
Research delineates two epidemiological categories among HIV-positive adolescents: those who contract the virus sexually and those who inherit it as infants. In this article, we are interested in how tacit inferences about adolescents' mode of infection contribute to their experiences of HIV-related blame, and their ability to achieve care, in their intimate, everyday settings. The analysis arises from ethnographic research with 23 HIV-positive a…
Yummy or crummy?’ The multisensory components of medicines-taking among HIV-positive youth
The global rollout of Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) has revealed an urgent need to understand the medicines-taking practices of HIV-positive adolescents. In the last decade, the literature on the social determinants of health has broadened the evidence-base on ART adherence. Interdisciplinary studies have expanded conceptions of medicines-taking beyond clinical or health systems frameworks, recognising the importance of socio-structural conditio…
Pesky metrics
The global rollout of antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV is one of the largest public health interventions ever undertaken. As the rollout expands, a growing body of research has focused on adherence to ART: how is it measured, what are the flaws of these metrics, and how may these be improved? We provide an overview of current, critical developments in adherence research among adolescents, and of how research on adherence to ART among adoles…
Buildings That Teach
Power to participants
Whilst the HIV response has made significant progress in increasing representation of adults affected by HIV, the meaningful inclusion of children and adolescents has lagged. But this may be a pivotal moment of change. We report on a decade of conducting adolescent advisory groups in South Africa, to reflect on youth advisory processes. Data was collected from 2008 to 2018 from adolescent advisors (n = 60) and researchers (n = 25), and included f…
Karoo Sanatorium
In the early twentieth century, with tuberculosis taking hold in many European cities, sanatoriums in South Africa's semi-arid Karoo region were emerging as prime healing destinations for "consumptive immigrants." Today, the Karoo continues to be marketed as a reprieve from the pathogens of city life, most recently as a "low-viral escape" amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Inspired by ethnographic and archival research, this dystopian fiction imagines t…
The virus in the queues
Queues have been at the centre of South Africa's COVID-19 story. National lockdown was declared on 26 March 2020, around the time 'month-end' salaries and government grants are paid out. Within the first few days, reports came of the long lines outside banks and supermarkets, with journalists regularly citing people's failure to 'social distance'. This article uses the queue as an analytic tool to explore the unequal vulnerabilities entailed in t…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (6 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (5 works) · Family medicine (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)