Heather Worth

Biographic Data

ID168640
NAMEHeather Worth
GIVEN NAMESHeather
FAMILY NAMEWorth
SIGNATUREWORTH H
AFFILIATIONSUNSW Sydney
ORCID0000-0001-5228-9588
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS49
TOTAL CITATIONS119
AUTHOR COUNT49
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6

  • A Hybrid Evaluation Approach: Incorporating Multiple Cultures Into Evaluation Design

    Open AccessKathryn Dinh, Heather Worth et al.ARTICLEEvaluation Journal of Australasia2025References: 6

    Culturally responsive evaluation contests the presumed universality of Western-derived evaluation methods and emphasises the importance of adapting evaluation methods to be context-sensitive. It prioritises respect for the values of the communities participating in an evaluation and mutual empowerment. While there are evaluation methods and approaches that reflect Indigenous ways of knowing and experience, and frameworks for identifying the cultu…

  • The experience of abortion for Cook Islands women: Exploring the socio-cultural dimensions of abortion safety

    Open AccessKate Burry, Kristen Beek et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2024

    Abortion is significantly restricted by law in most Pacific Island countries, impacting the rights, health and autonomy of people who experience pregnancy. We undertook qualitative research between February and August 2022 on Rarotonga, Cook Islands, where abortion is illegal under most circumstances. We conducted interviews with women who had accessed or tried to access abortion services; people who had supported women to access abortion service…

  • Illegal abortion and reproductive injustice in the Pacific Islands: A qualitative analysis of court data

    Open AccessKate Burry, Kristen Beek et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2023

    The Oceania region is home to some of the world's most restrictive abortion laws, and there is evidence of Pacific Island women's reproductive oppression across several aspects of their reproductive lives, including in relation to contraceptive decision‐making, birthing, and fertility. In this paper we analyse documents from court cases in the Pacific Islands regarding the illegal procurement of abortion. We undertook inductive thematic analysis …

  • When they do that kind of bad things to me, I feel that they encourage me to be strong and be who I am’: How transfeminine people in Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands experience discrimination, accept…

    Jacek Anderst, Karen Mcmillan et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2022

    Data on transfeminine participants from a 2016 Pacific Multi-Country Mapping and Behavioural Study evidence high levels of verbal, physical and sexual abuse, as well as discrimination. In interviews from the same study, accounts of hardship were frequently countered with assertions of happiness and talk of acceptance. This paper analyses these accounts and, in particular, the ways in which interviewees viewed and managed their place in society. D…

  • We Live Just Like a Normal Family”: Exploring Local Renderings of the Global HIV Normalisation Discourse Among Serodiscordant Couples in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessA Persson, Angela Kelly-Hanku et al.ARTICLESexuality & Culture2022Cited by: 2References: 16

    The contemporary global discourse of “HIV normalisation” is intimately linked to the scientific consensus that, with effective antiretroviral therapy, an “undetectable” viral load renders HIV “non-infectious” and “untransmittable” between sexual partners. Beyond this correlation, HIV normality is rarely defined, leaving the impression that it is an objective and universally applicable phenomenon. But what does normality mean in settings where the…

  • Making Sense of Serodiscordance: Pathways and Aftermaths of HIV Testing among Couples with Mixed HIV Status in Papua New Guinea

    A Persson, Angela Kelly-Hanku et al.ARTICLECanberra Anthropology2021

    The World Health Organization has emphasised the importance of HIV testing for couples as part of a global strategy to support the HIV prevention needs of couples, particularly those whose test results are ‘serodiscordant’ (one partner is diagnosed HIV-positive, the other HIV-negative). Studies have focused on motivations and barriers to testing together as a couple. However, this provides only partial insights into a bigger and often more comple…

  • Perpetration of Violence by Female Sex Workers in Papua New Guinea: ‘We will Crush their Bones’

    Open AccessAngela Kelly-Hanku, Heather Worth et al.ARTICLEThe British Journal of Criminology2021References: 54

    There is a small but important body of literature on female sex workers’ (FSWs) violence towards others, but little of that focused on low- and middle-income countries. Drawn from a larger biobehavioural study of FSWs in three cities in Papua New Guinea, we analyse the interviews from 19 FSWs who reported having perpetrated physical violence towards four major groups: (1) ex-husbands; (2) clients; (3) other sex workers and (4) other people (mainl…

  • Caring Masculinities in the Context of HIV Serodiscordant Relationships in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessElke Mitchell, Angela Kelly-Hanku et al.ARTICLEMen and Masculinities2021Cited by: 5References: 27

    Globally, there is limited research exploring the positive role men play in reducing HIV vulnerability or in the care and support of women living with HIV. This paper draws on interviews conducted with men and women in heterosexual HIV serodiscordant relationships as part of a longitudinal qualitative study exploring the social aspects of biomedicine among serodiscordant couples in two high HIV-burden areas in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Findings hig…

  • Polygyny, Serodiscordance and HIV Prevention in Papua New Guinea: A Qualitative Exploration of Diverse Configurations

    A Persson, Angela Kelly-Hanku et al.ARTICLECanberra Anthropology2020

    Polygyny is practised in vastly different cultural contexts, including in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The literature is contradictory, arguing that polygyny is either protective against HIV or a critical risk factor. Neither argument accounts for the diversity of polygyny. Even less attention has been paid to polygynous marriages with mixed HIV status (serodiscordance). This paper draws on a longitudinal study of the socio-cultural aspects of biomedi…

  • Historic and Contemporary Influences on HIV Advocacy in Vietnam

    Open AccessKathryn Dinh, Khuat Thu Hong et al.ARTICLEVoluntas Revista Internacional de…2020Cited by: 1References: 9

    HIV civil society advocacy in Vietnam is shaped by a unique fusion of historic and contemporary influences, resulting in nuanced ways in which advocacy is practised. In this study, we interviewed representatives from civil society, the Government of Vietnam, international NGOs, multilateral and research organisations and commercial consultancies to identify the influences on advocacy practice today. Aspects of Confucianism, Buddhism, Communism an…

  • Prevalence and correlates of intimate partner violence against women in conflict affected northern Uganda: A cross-sectional study

    Open AccessEleanor Black, Heather Worth et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2019

    Our findings show that IPV is a significant issue in conflict affected northern Uganda, and attitudes that normalise and justify IPV are common. Alcohol abuse among young men in northern Uganda is highly prevalent and strongly associated with IPV towards women, as are controlling behaviours exhibited by the male partner. Interventions to reduce alcohol consumption among men in this region are likely to have important benefits in reducing the prev…

  • I loved him all my life’: Love, duty and homosexuality in post-liberation China

    Youchun Zhang, Heather Worth et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2019

    This article is born out of an oral history study of 31 elderly homosexual men in four cities in China. It shows the ways in which major events of Chinese history since the birth of the People's Republic in 1949 intervene in personal lives and, in turn, how personal lives are drawn into larger historical events. One of the major themes running through these life narratives is that of love and duty. The interrelationship, as well as the tensions, …

  • Buddhist evaluation: Applying a Buddhist world view to the Most Significant Change Technique

    Open AccessKathryn Dinh, Heather Worth et al.ARTICLEEvaluation2019References: 6

    Culturally responsive evaluation recognises the existence of diverse ontologies and epistemologies or understandings of existence and ways that people know, reason and perceive the world respectively. Its exponents argue that these should be reflected in evaluation practice. Buddhism has a significant global influence today, particularly in some countries in South East and East Asia, where it is practised by a large majority of the population. In…

  • Confucian Evaluation: Reframing Contribution Analysis Using a Confucian Lens

    Open AccessKathryn Dinh, Heather Worth et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Evaluation2019Cited by: 1References: 8

    Culturally responsive evaluation contests that Western-derived evaluation methods represent a universal truth and promotes approaches that reflect the local context. Taking this approach, we examine how the method of contribution analysis may be modified to reflect a different worldview. We reframe contribution analysis using a Confucian lens as Confucianism represents a value system that is still integral to the way societies operate in several …

  • Sex Work and the Problem of Inequality: A Pacific Perspective

    Open AccessKaren Mcmillan, Heather WorthARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2019Cited by: 2References: 9

  • There was no mercy at all: Hooliganism, homosexuality and the opening-up of China

    Open AccessHeather Worth, Jun Jing et al.ARTICLEInternational Sociology2019Cited by: 6References: 6

    This article discusses the Chinese state crackdown on homosexuality during the reform period through the narratives of homosexual men who were arrested and sentenced to re-education through labour at that time. Utilising the work on morality and law by Zygmunt Bauman, it is shown that Deng Xiaoping's proposal in 1979 to advance Chinese socialist spiritual civilisation was operationalised through a wide variety of procedures, including the use of …

  • Vibrant Entanglements: HIV Biomedicine and Serodiscordant Couples in Papua New Guinea

    A Persson, Angela Kelly-Hanku et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology2019Cited by: 5References: 52

    The global ambition to "end AIDS" hinges on the universal uptake of HIV treatment-as-prevention and is undergirded by the assumption that biomedical technologies have consistent, predictable effects across highly diverse settings. But as anthropologists argue, such technologies are actively transformed by their local encounters, with various constitutive effects. How priority populations, such as HIV "serodiscordant" couples, negotiate treatment-…

  • Usage of the Terms Prostitution, Sex Work, Transactional Sex, and Survival Sex: Their Utility in HIV Prevention Research

    Open AccessKaren Mcmillan, Heather Worth et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2018Cited by: 7References: 59

  • Good culture, bad culture’: Polygyny, cultural change and structural drivers of HIV in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessPatti Shih, Heather Worth et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2017

    Culture is often problematised as a key structural driver of HIV transmission in Papua New Guinea. Official HIV programmes, as well as church teachings, tend to focus on customary marital practices of polygyny and bride price payments as 'harmful traditions'. This focus can oversimplify the effects of current and historical nuances of cultural, political and economic change on sexual concurrency and gender inequality. Community-based healthcare w…

  • Development of a Risk Algorithm to Better Target STI Testing and Treatment Among Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

    Open AccessHandan Wand, J Bryant et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2017References: 22

  • Pastoral power in HIV prevention: Converging rationalities of care in Christian and medical practices in Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessPatti Shih, Heather Worth et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2017Cited by: 7References: 34

  • Under the Same Quilt: The Paradoxes of Sex Between Men in the Cultural Revolution

    Heather Worth, J P Mueller et al.ARTICLEJournal of Homosexuality2017Cited by: 2References: 19

    This article describes the paradoxes experienced by homosexual men during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Interviews with 31 elderly Chinese gay men were carried out in four cities in China in 2011. Although homosexual men were terribly persecuted, chaotic situations and dislocations of youth from their families provided young homosexual men with a remarkable degree of personal freedom and the opportunity to explore same-sex relations. Analysis …

  • Individual and population level impacts of illicit drug use, sexual risk behaviours on sexually transmitted infections among young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: Results from the Goanna…

    Open AccessHandan Wand, James Ward et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2016

    Illicit drug use in this population is relatively high compared to other similar aged populations in Australia. Illicit drug use was associated with risky sexual behaviours and STI diagnoses among this study population. Developing and implementing effective STI prevention strategies should include not only safe sex messages but also include drug and alcohol harm reduction messages

  • Eating Coffee Candy

    Open AccessPhilip Gibbs, Heather WorthCHAPTERHealth of HIV Infected People2015

  • Problematics of empowerment: Sex worker HIV prevention in the Pacific

    Open AccessKaren Mcmillan, Karen E McMillan et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2015

    A recent overview of HIV/STI prevention programmes for sex workers in the Pacific region indicates that, despite a regional policy shift from universal to targeted interventions, Pacific Island countries currently lack core HIV/STI prevention services for sex workers. Across the region, condom distribution, peer outreach and support services for sex workers have ceased even in countries where such programmes had previously existed. This article c…