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Morten Skovdal

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ID182339
NOMBREMorten Skovdal
NOMBRESMorten
APELLIDOSkovdal
FIRMASKOVDAL M
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Copenhagen
ORCID0000-0002-2068-1814
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS92
TOTAL DE CITAS272
TOTAL COMO AUTOR92
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2008
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H8
  • When health policies make sense

    Open Access•Sophie van der Steen, Morten Skovdal et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2026

    While policy uptake often relies on persuasive narrative framing, some policy initiatives simply make practical sense. We observed this with Zimbabwe’s universal HIV test-and-treat policy and examined the factors that may have contributed to this. We conducted nine interviews with healthcare workers and three focus group discussions with 20 people living with HIV and on treatment. We analysed transcripts thematically using thematic network analys…

  • Collective coping work among healthcare providers navigating the precarities of an overburdened maternity facility in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Open Access•Haika Osaki, Columba Mbekenga et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2026

    This study examines collective coping among birth attendants, managers, and pregnant women in an overburdened urban maternity facility in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Drawing on three months of ethnographic research, including participant observations and interviews, we explore how birth attendants navigate systemic challenges in a low-resource setting. Using thematic network analysis, we found that collective coping involved modifying care practices…

  • Fatherhood and men's participation across diverse antenatal care systems in rural Eastern Zimbabwe

    Open Access•Anthony Shuko Musiwa, Morten Skovdal et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2026

    Men's participation in antenatal care (ANC) is widely seen as essential for improving access, uptake, and pregnancy outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the region with the world's highest maternal and child mortality rates. However, current studies often approach participation narrowly through involvement in biomedical ANC, overlooking local fatherhood experiences and men's relational and culturally grounded roles beyond clinical settings. Draw…

  • Young people’s perceptions of climate change in Africa

    Open Access•Stanley G Kulanga, Catherine A Masao et al.•ARTICLE•Global Studies of Childhood•2025

    Given Africa’s disproportionate risks from climate change, how young Africans perceive this crisis is crucial for shaping effective mitigation and adaptation strategies. However, a comprehensive understanding of their knowledge and awareness is lacking, limiting the potential for informed and impactful climate action. Addressing these knowledge gaps is crucial for empowering young people as active agents in combating the climate crisis. This scop…

  • Photovoice

    Open Access•C M Bagge-Petersen, Emmanuel Raju et al.•ARTICLE•Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…•2025•Referencias: 10

    Photovoice is a popular participatory research method for instigating critical reflection and social change. It does, however, rely on participants being able to photographically capture the phenomenon under study. This raises challenging questions that may obstruct the use of Photovoice in climate change studies. Is climate change visible? Can it be photographically captured? What change can Photovoice instigate in the context of global climate …

  • The value of health advocacy in cross-sector collaboration for PTSD-affected and unemployed refugees in Denmark

    Open Access•Henriette Laugesen Attardo, Morten Skovdal et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2025

    Background: Many refugees resettling in Denmark suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) – influenced by both traumatic experiences and post-migration stressors such as unemployment, social isolation and difficulties navigating health and social care systems. Such stressors can undermine health as much as exposure to trauma itself. Refugees resettled in Europe also experience poor coordination of care and report that their life circumsta…

  • Towards education with a shared language

    Open Access•Linnea Waade Biermann, Anne Sofie Borsch et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychology of Education•2025•Referencias: 2

    Learning a new language is a challenge facing most young immigrants and refugees arriving in a new resettlement country. Yet, learning the resettlement country language is critical for the young immigrants and refugees’ life chances, in terms of future education, social integration, and participation in the labour market. While literature concerned with Language Learning Strategies (LLS) points to the determining effects of social and physical le…

  • Changes to Refugee Mental Health During and After a Cross-Sector PTSD Intervention

    Open Access•Henriette Laugesen Attardo, Maja Bruhn et al.•ARTICLE•Culture Medicine and Psychiatry•2025•Referencias: 31

    Cross-sector interventions are increasingly suggested in care for trauma-affected refugees, but knowledge about how they influence mental health over time remains sparse. Using a qualitative longitudinal design, we explored patterns of mental health change and aspects contributing to change among refugees participating in a cross-sector intervention addressing post-migration stressors alongside treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. Interv…

  • The Dilemmas and Opportunities of Co‐Creating Health Interventions to Fit Local Contexts

    Open Access•Haika Osaki, Morten Skovdal et al.•ARTICLE•Health Expectations•2024

    INTRODUCTION: Healthcare providers' role in co-creating health interventions and implementation strategies has evolved significantly, and yet, there is little documentation of this from low-resource settings. This study aims to share the dilemmas of engaging healthcare providers in co-creating locally adapted clinical guidelines for maternity facilities in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and strategies used to address them. METHODS: An ethnographic stud…

  • The effect of teacher multicultural attitudes on self-efficacy and wellbeing at work

    Open Access•Sanni Aalto, Reeta Kankaanpää et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychology of Education•2024•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 15

    Teachers are pivotal in creating safe and efficacious learning environments for ethnic minority students. Research suggests that teachers’ multicultural attitudes, self-efficacy, and wellbeing at work may all play important roles in this endeavor. Using survey data on 433 teachers in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, the present study used structural equation models to analyze the paths between teachers’ multicult…

  • Reflections on arts-based research methods in refugee mental health

    Open Access•Sofie De Smet, Caroline Spaas et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Refugee Studies•2024•Referencias: 11

    In the field of refugee mental health research, scholars have emphasized the ethical obligation for research practices to benefit participants. They have proposed that research participation itself can promote positive coping in the aftermath of migration. In this article, we aim to advance the understanding of the benefits of arts-based research methods (ABRM) in how they may nurture participants’ positive coping during their experiences as rese…

  • Understanding how classroom drama workshops can facilitate social capital for newly arrived migrant and refugee adolescents

    Open Access•Finja Dähne, Signe Smith Jervelund et al.•ARTICLE•Transcultural Psychiatric…•2024•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 45

    Art-based interventions, such as classroom drama workshops (CDWs), increasingly form part of a collection of mental health-promoting activities introduced in school settings. While research points to the potential benefits of CDWs for the mental well-being of refugee and migrant adolescents, the mechanisms to such improvement are less understood. In this article we respond to the need for qualitative evidence of how CDW interventions affect refug…

  • Misguided social support? How Danish veteran families affected by PTSD experience formal and informal social support

    Open Access•Jeanette Bonde Pollmann, Anni Brit Sternhagen Nielsen et al.•ARTICLE•Social Sciences & Humanities Open•2023

    Existing literature highlights that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after military deployment not only affects the formerly deployed veteran, but when the veteran has a family, has detrimental effects on the entire family. While research suggests that social support can have a positive mediating effect on the impact of PTSD, we know little about how veteran families experience the impact of PTSD, and how this relates to their experiences of …

  • ‘Condoms are hard to get by’

    Open Access•Morten Skovdal, Tanyaradzwa Maunzagona et al.•ARTICLE•Global Health Action•2023

    BACKGROUND: In the early phase of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, health services were disrupted worldwide, including HIV prevention services. While some studies have begun to document the effects of COVID-19 on HIV prevention, little has been done to qualitatively examine how lockdown measures were experienced and perceived to affect access to HIV prevention methods in sub-Saharan Africa. OBJECTIVES: To explore how the COVID-19…

  • School-based Psychosocial Interventions’ Effectiveness in Strengthening Refugee and Migrant Adolescents’ Mental Health, Resilience, and Social Relations

    Open Access•Caroline Spaas, Sameh Said‐metwaly et al.•ARTICLE•Psychosocial Intervention•2023

    School-based psychosocial interventions are increasingly put forward as a way to support young refugees' and migrants' well-being and mental health in resettlement. However, the evidence on these interventions' effectiveness remains scarce and scholars denounce particular gaps in the evidence to date, pointing to a lack of large-scale, controlled studies and studies including social outcome measures. This cluster randomized study aims to strength…

  • Understanding interventions as social practices

    Open Access•Anne Sofie Borsch, An Verelst et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2023•Referencias: 49

    The rise of school-based mental health interventions calls for an understanding of how such interventions interact with context as well as analytical tools for examining these interactions. This article explores how learners and teachers in two classrooms for newly-arrived migrant adolescents in Denmark (one urban, highly diverse classroom and one small-town classroom mainly serving youth who had fled armed conflict) experienced and implemented t…

  • Caring for people experiencing homelessness in times of crisis

    Open Access•Chloé Zufferey, Morten Skovdal et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Disaster…•2022

    Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic shed light on rooted social inequalities and on housing as a crucial social determinant of health. Little is known on current practices and new opportunities to support people experiencing homelessness in a situation of a global health crisis. This study explores frontline workers' experiences of providing essential services to people experiencing homelessness in Copenhagen, Denmark, during the first COVID-19 loc…

  • Care from distance, yet closer together

    Open Access•Katrine Judith Chamorro De Angeles, Phoene Mesa Oware et al.•ARTICLE•SSM - Qualitative Research in…•2022

    Short messaging services (SMS) for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) are growing in popularity, yet with little qualitative understanding of how such socio-technological mobile health (mHealth) interventions are experienced and shape continuity of care. In this qualitative study, we explore how WelTel, an SMS intervention for improved PMTCT retention in western Kenya, influenced women's engagement with PMTCT care. We condu…

  • “My children do not deserve it”

    Open Access•Jeanette Bonde Pollmann, Morten Skovdal•ARTICLE•SSM - Mental Health•2022

    Post-deployment posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) does not merely affect veterans. A growing body of literature highlights the detrimental impact of veteran PTSD on entire families. One area less studied pertains to how PTSD affects veterans’ parenting skills and engagement with social support structures in response to family struggles. Through an interpretative phenomenological analysis, we addressed this gap by drawing on qualitative researc…

  • Scaling up context-tailored clinical guidelines and training to improve childbirth care in urban, low-resource maternity units in Tanzania

    Open Access•Nanna Maaløe, Natasha Housseine et al.•ARTICLE•Global Health Action•2022

    While facility births are increasing in many low-resource settings, quality of care often does not follow suit; maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity remain unacceptably high. Therefore, realistic, context-tailored clinical support is crucially needed to assist birth attendants in resource-constrained realities to provide best possible evidence-based and respectful care. Our pilot study in Zanzibar suggested that co-created clinical prac…

  • Scaling up Locally Adapted Clinical Practice Guidelines for Improving Childbirth Care in Tanzania

    Open Access•Jane Brandt Sørensen, Natasha Housseine et al.•ARTICLE•Global Health Action•2022

    Effective, low-cost clinical interventions to improve facility-based care during childbirth are critical to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity in low-resource settings. While health interventions for low- and lower-middle-income countries are often developed and implemented top-down, needs and circumstances vary greatly across locations. Our pilot study in Zanzibar improved care through locally co-created intrapartum clinical p…

  • Rituals of care

    Open Access•Nadine Beckmann, Morten Skovdal et al.•ARTICLE•Global Public Health•2022

    A growing number of studies highlight high levels of misdiagnosis in the scale-up of HIV rapid testing programmes, which often remain invisible to individual testers. Drawing on interviews with HIV testers and observations in four health facilities in Zimbabwe, we show that testers navigated the translation of the standardised, dis-embodied norms of laboratory-based testing into the body work of point-of-care testing through ritualisation of labo…

  • Experience of discrimination during Covid-19 pandemic

    Open Access•M Marchi, Federica Maria Magarini et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2022

    Refugees and other migrants who had more difficulties in accessing health care and preventive measures against COVID-19 infection experienced worse mental health and increased discrimination. These negative effects appeared to be stronger for those with more insecure housing and residence status, highlighting from one side the specific risk of insecure housing in the impact of COVID-19 upon mental health and infection protection, and for another …

  • Migrant Students’ Sense of Belonging and the Covid‐19 Pandemic

    Open Access•Nikolett Szelei, Ines Devlieger et al.•ARTICLE•Social Inclusion•2022•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 14

    This article investigates school belonging among migrant students and how this changed during the Covid‐19 pandemic. Drawing on quantitative data gathered from 751 migrant students in secondary schools in six European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the UK), we examined the impact of Covid‐19 school closures, social support, and post‐traumatic stress symptoms on changes in school belonging. Linear regression showed a non…

  • Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the psychological well-being of migrants and refugees settled in Spain

    Rocio Garrido, Virginia Paloma et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnicity and Health•2022•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 4

    Based on these findings, we outline priority areas of psychosocial interventions aimed at guaranteeing the mental health of migrants and refugees in the face of the pandemic in Spain

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  • Young carers as social actors

    Open Access•Morten Skovdal, Vincent O Ogutu et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2009•Citada por: 46•Referencias: 31

  • Masculinity as a barrier to men's use of HIV services in Zimbabwe

    Open Access•Morten Skovdal, Catherine Campbell et al.•ARTICLE•Globalization and Health•2011•Citada por: 31•Referencias: 5

    A growing number of studies highlight men's disinclination to make use of HIV services. This suggests there are factors that prevent men from engaging with health services and an urgent need to unpack the forms of sociality that determine men's acceptance or rejection of HIV services.Drawing on the perspectives of 53 antiretroviral drug users and 25 healthcare providers, we examine qualitatively how local constructions of masculinity in rural Zim…

  • Exploring children's stigmatisation of Aids-affected children in Zimbabwe through drawings and stories

    Open Access•Catherine Campbell, Morten Skovdal et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2010•Citada por: 21•Referencias: 32

  • Beyond education

    Open Access•Morten Skovdal, Catherine Campbell•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2015•Citada por: 17•Referencias: 5

  • Young people’s everyday climate crisis activism

    Morten Skovdal, Matthew Charles Benwell•ARTICLE•Children s Geographies•2021•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 7

    The growing climate crisis has shown how children and young people can be a political force to be reckoned with. While Greta Thunberg and many other young climate activists from around the world personify this force, there is another – largely hidden – story to be told about the everyday practices that young people adopt, in our homes, in our schools and in local communities to respond to environmental concerns. This issue brings together leading…

  • Social Capital and Women's Reduced Vulnerability to HIV Infection in Rural Zimbabwe

    Open Access•Sarah Gregson, Simon Gregson et al.•ARTICLE•Population and Development Review•2011•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 42

    Social capital-especially through its "network" dimension (high levels of participation in local community groups)-is thought to be an important determinant of health in many contexts. We investigate its effect on HIV prevention, using prospective data from a general population cohort in eastern Zimbabwe spanning a period of extensive behavior change (1998-2003). Almost half of the initially uninfected women interviewed were members of at least o…

  • Orphan competent communities

    Morten Skovdal, Catherine Campbell•ARTICLE•Vulnerable Children and Youth…•2010•Citada por: 9•Referencias: 22

    Vulnerable children in Africa have traditionally been absorbed and supported by their communities. However, in the context of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and poverty, communities are increasingly stretched, compromising the quality of care available to children affected by AIDS. This calls for an understanding of the processes that best facilitate the capacity of communities to provide good quality care and support. In the interest…

  • Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the psychological well-being of migrants and refugees settled in Spain

    Rocio Garrido, Virginia Paloma et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnicity and Health•2022•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 4

    Based on these findings, we outline priority areas of psychosocial interventions aimed at guaranteeing the mental health of migrants and refugees in the face of the pandemic in Spain

  • Mental Health of Refugee and Non-refugee Migrant Young People in European Secondary Education

    Open Access•Caroline Spaas, An Verelst et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth and Adolescence•2022•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 78

  • How a School Setting Can Generate Social Capital for Young Refugees

    Open Access•Anne Sofie Borsch, Morten Skovdal et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Refugee Studies•2019•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 12

    Many of the refugees who have recently arrived in Denmark and other European countries are young people. In order to support refugee youth, it is important to understand how institutions and initiatives in the receiving countries may best facilitate their social inclusion. Drawing on the concept of social capital, this article explores school practices supporting refugees through a qualitative case study of a Danish folk high school—an informal r…

  • Navigating ‘riskscapes’

    Open Access•Stephanie Gee, Morten Skovdal•ARTICLE•Health & Place•2017•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 8

  • Community-based capital cash transfer to support orphans in Western Kenya

    Morten Skovdal, Winnie Mwasiaji et al.•ARTICLE•Vulnerable Children and Youth…•2008•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 6

    Various types of ‘cash transfer’ are currently receiving much attention as a way of helping orphans and vulnerable children in Africa. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in Western Kenya, this paper points to the strategy of community-based capital cash transfers (CCCT) as a particularly promising method of supporting orphans and carers. Qualitative data were obtained from 15 orphans and 26 caregivers in Bondo District, Kenya, beneficiaries…

  • It’s difficult to help when I am not sitting next to them’

    Nina Langer Primdahl, Anne Sofie Borsch et al.•ARTICLE•Vulnerable Children and Youth…•2020•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 9

    Teachers play a critical role in providing social and emotional support for newly arrived migrant and refugee learners. Such care ordinarily takes place in the classroom, raising questions about the impact of the 2020 COVID-19 school closures on their care work. In this article we analyze qualitative data from phone interviews with eight teachers in Danish preparatory classes, paying particular attention to the challenges they faced staying in co…

  • Small steps and small wins’ in young people’s everyday climate crisis activism

    Daniel Emdal Navne, Morten Skovdal•ARTICLE•Children s Geographies•2021•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 6

    This Viewpoint is primarily a personal account of 16-year-old Daniel’s experiences of his everyday climate crisis activisms. The article demonstrates Daniel’s disquiet with how things stand, and how this translates into everyday climate crisis activism and relational dilemmas that need to be carefully navigated. Guided by his ‘inner climate compass’, Daniel finds small and controllable ways to influence family, friends and his broader community, …

  • The socio-material self-care practices of children living with hemophilia or juvenile idiopathic arthritis in Denmark

    Open Access•C M Bagge-Petersen, Morten Skovdal et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2020•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 27

  • The emergence of an ethic of care in rural Kenyan schools? Perspectives of teachers and orphaned and vulnerable pupils

    Morten Skovdal, Ruth Evans•ARTICLE•Children s Geographies•2016•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 10

    In the context of HIV, there is considerable debate about the role of schools and teachers as potential sources of care and support for vulnerable children. This qualitative research examines ‘care’ as experienced and practiced by pupils and teachers in rural Western Kenya. In primary and secondary schools, interviews were conducted with 18 teachers and 57 orphaned and vulnerable pupils, alongside Photovoice. Drawing on thematic analysis and an ‘…

  • Household-based cash transfer targeting strategies in Zimbabwe

    Open Access•Laura Robertson, Phyllis Mushati et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2012•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 7

  • Building adherence-competent communities

    Open Access•Catherine Campbell, Morten Skovdal et al.•ARTICLE•Health & Place•2011•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 8

    Given relatively high levels of adherence to HIV treatment in Africa, we explore factors facilitating children's adherence, despite poverty, social disruption and limited health infrastructure. Using interviews with 25 nurses and 40 guardians in Zimbabwe, we develop our conceptualisation of an 'adherence competent community', showing how members of five networks (children, guardians, community members, health workers and NGOs) have taken advantag…

  • Using Identity and Recognition as a Framework to Understand and Promote the Resilience of Caregiving Children in Western Kenya

    Open Access•Morten Skovdal, E Andreouli•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Policy•2011•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 48

    Children around the world have been observed to assume caregiving responsibilities when a parent or other family members fall ill. Whilst the circumstances surrounding caregiving children in Anglophone countries have been looked at in detail, we know relatively little about how children in Africa experience young caregiving. This paper seeks to further our understanding of caregiving children in Africa by looking at how local constructions of chi…

  • Caring alone

    Open Access•Felix Häggström, Anne Sofie Borsch et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2020•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 39

  • Public Discourses of Ebola Contagion and Courtesy Stigma

    Open Access•Stephanie Gee, Morten Skovdal•ARTICLE•Qualitative Health Research•2018•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 42

    This article explores the homecoming experiences of international health care workers who responded to the 2014 to 2016 West African Ebola outbreak. Interviews with 11 frontline international medical staff were undertaken and data thematically analyzed. It was found that international health care workers faced an unforeseen risk of stigmatization upon their return home, related to others' fears of their infectious status. Media representations of…

  • In the midst of a ‘perfect storm’

    Open Access•Elise Denis-Ramirez, Katrine Holmegaard Sørensen et al.•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2017•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 25

  • Re-thinking children׳s agency in extreme hardship

    Open Access•Catherine Campbell, Louise Andersen et al.•ARTICLE•Health & Place•2014•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 15

    We compare two analyses of the same 'draw-and-write' exercises in which 128 Zimbabwean children represented their HIV-affected peers. The first, informed by the 'New Social Studies of Childhood', easily identified examples of independent reflection and action by children. The second, informed by Sen's understandings of agency, drew attention to the negative consequences of many of the choices available to children, and the contextual limits on ou…

  • Factors shaping the HIV-competence of two primary schools in rural Zimbabwe

    Open Access•Catherine Campbell, Louise Andersen et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2014•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 7

    We present multi-method case studies of two Zimbabwean primary schools - one rural and one small-town. The rural school scored higher than the small-town school on measures of child well-being and school attendance by HIV-affected children. The small-town school had superior facilities, more teachers with higher morale, more specialist HIV/AIDS activities, and an explicit religious ethos. The relatively impoverished rural school was located in a …

  • The Social Determinants of Health as they relate to children and youth growing up with HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open Access•Morten Skovdal, Sara Belton•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2014•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 34

  • Community-based capital cash transfer to support orphans in Western Kenya

    Morten Skovdal, Winnie Mwasiaji et al.•ARTICLE•Vulnerable Children and Youth…•2008•Citada por: 8•Referencias: 6

    Various types of ‘cash transfer’ are currently receiving much attention as a way of helping orphans and vulnerable children in Africa. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in Western Kenya, this paper points to the strategy of community-based capital cash transfers (CCCT) as a particularly promising method of supporting orphans and carers. Qualitative data were obtained from 15 orphans and 26 caregivers in Bondo District, Kenya, beneficiaries…

  • "I washed and fed my mother before going to school"

    Open Access•Morten Skovdal, Vincent O Ogutu et al.•ARTICLE•Globalization and Health•2009

    With improved accessibility to life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy, the treatment and care requirements of people living with HIV and AIDS resembles that of more established chronic diseases. As an increasing number of people living with HIV and AIDS in Kenya have access to ART, the primary caregivers of poor resource settings, often children, face the challenge of meeting the requirements of rigid ART adherence schedules and frequent relapses…

  • Young carers as social actors

    Open Access•Morten Skovdal, Vincent O Ogutu et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2009•Citada por: 46•Referencias: 31

  • Children caring for their “caregivers”

    Morten Skovdal•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2010

    Reflecting dominant understandings of childhood, many researchers describe orphans as an emotional and financial cost to the households in which they live. This has created a representation of orphans as a burden, not only to their fostering household, but also to society. This article seeks to challenge this representation by exploring children's contributions to their fostering households. Drawing on research from Bondo District in Kenya, this …

  • Livelihoods, care and the familial relations of orphans in eastern Africa

    T Abebe, Morten Skovdal•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2010

    Although the impact of AIDS-induced mortality and morbidity is well-researched, few studies explore the interaction and reciprocity of care between children and their households. Drawing on participatory research methods (interviews, focus groups, photo-essays, story writing and observations), we bring together the findings of two qualitative studies from rural communities in Ethiopia and Kenya involving 94 orphans and their households. We argue …

  • Community relations and child-led microfinance

    Morten Skovdal•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2010

    Rampant levels of AIDS and poverty have made many children in sub-Saharan Africa the primary caregivers of their ageing or ailing guardians. This paper reports on a social action fund initiative that brought caregiving children together to set-up and run income generating activities as a group with the aim of strengthening their coping capabilities. To further our understanding of child-led microfinance activities, this paper explores how intra-c…

  • Orphan competent communities

    Morten Skovdal, Catherine Campbell•ARTICLE•Vulnerable Children and Youth…•2010•Citada por: 9•Referencias: 22

    Vulnerable children in Africa have traditionally been absorbed and supported by their communities. However, in the context of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and poverty, communities are increasingly stretched, compromising the quality of care available to children affected by AIDS. This calls for an understanding of the processes that best facilitate the capacity of communities to provide good quality care and support. In the interest…

  • Exploring children's stigmatisation of Aids-affected children in Zimbabwe through drawings and stories

    Open Access•Catherine Campbell, Morten Skovdal et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2010•Citada por: 21•Referencias: 32

  • Challenges faced by elderly guardians in sustaining the adherence to antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected children in Zimbabwe

    Morten Skovdal, Catherine Campbell et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2011

    Grandparents throughout sub-Saharan Africa have shown immense courage and fortitude in providing care and support for AIDS-affected children. However, growing old comes with a number of challenges which can compromise the quality of care and support they are able to provide, particularly for children infected by HIV and enrolled on antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes. For ART to be effective, and for infected children not to develop drug-resi…

  • Building adherence-competent communities

    Open Access•Catherine Campbell, Morten Skovdal et al.•ARTICLE•Health & Place•2011•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 8

    Given relatively high levels of adherence to HIV treatment in Africa, we explore factors facilitating children's adherence, despite poverty, social disruption and limited health infrastructure. Using interviews with 25 nurses and 40 guardians in Zimbabwe, we develop our conceptualisation of an 'adherence competent community', showing how members of five networks (children, guardians, community members, health workers and NGOs) have taken advantag…

  • Agency, resilience and coping

    Open Access•Robyn Elizabeth Winsor, Morten Skovdal•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2011•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 6

    Despite an increase in goat donation programmes geared at orphaned and vulnerable children in sub‐Saharan Africa, the social psychological effects of goat ownership on the lives of these children have yet to be investigated. To shed light on the ways in which goat ownership affects children's psychosocial well‐being, this paper presents a case study of a goat donation programme in Western Kenya, paying particular attention to children's interacti…

  • Building orphan competent communities

    Open Access•Morten Skovdal, Winnie Mwasiaji et al.•ARTICLE•Health Policy and Planning•2011•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 14

    As a result of the increasing number of orphans in sub-Saharan Africa, numerous programmes have been initiated to facilitate the care and support of orphaned and vulnerable children. This paper reports on a community-based capital cash transfer initiative in Kenya and explores its role in building orphan competent and supportive communities through its participatory project cycle. Using a mixture of individual and group interviews, 300 orphaned c…

  • Examining the trajectories of children providing care for adults in rural Kenya

    Open Access•Morten Skovdal•ARTICLE•Children and Youth Services Review•2011•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 15

  • Picturing the Coping Strategies of Caregiving Children in Western Kenya

    Morten Skovdal•ARTICLE•American Journal of Public Health•2011•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 7

    providing invaluable nursing and palliative care. In many cases, they also play a key role in sustaining their households. 3,4 To think of ways to support this group of children, staff from a local nongovernmental organization (WVP [World Voices Positive] Kenya) in Western Kenya made use of Photovoice, a participatory methodology that encourages people to reflect and develop perspectives on their life challenges through producing and reflecting o…

  • Masculinity as a barrier to men's use of HIV services in Zimbabwe

    Open Access•Morten Skovdal, Catherine Campbell et al.•ARTICLE•Globalization and Health•2011•Citada por: 31•Referencias: 5

    A growing number of studies highlight men's disinclination to make use of HIV services. This suggests there are factors that prevent men from engaging with health services and an urgent need to unpack the forms of sociality that determine men's acceptance or rejection of HIV services.Drawing on the perspectives of 53 antiretroviral drug users and 25 healthcare providers, we examine qualitatively how local constructions of masculinity in rural Zim…

  • Social Capital and Women's Reduced Vulnerability to HIV Infection in Rural Zimbabwe

    Open Access•Sarah Gregson, Simon Gregson et al.•ARTICLE•Population and Development Review•2011•Citada por: 14•Referencias: 42

    Social capital-especially through its "network" dimension (high levels of participation in local community groups)-is thought to be an important determinant of health in many contexts. We investigate its effect on HIV prevention, using prospective data from a general population cohort in eastern Zimbabwe spanning a period of extensive behavior change (1998-2003). Almost half of the initially uninfected women interviewed were members of at least o…

  • Using Identity and Recognition as a Framework to Understand and Promote the Resilience of Caregiving Children in Western Kenya

    Open Access•Morten Skovdal, E Andreouli•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Policy•2011•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 48

    Children around the world have been observed to assume caregiving responsibilities when a parent or other family members fall ill. Whilst the circumstances surrounding caregiving children in Anglophone countries have been looked at in detail, we know relatively little about how children in Africa experience young caregiving. This paper seeks to further our understanding of caregiving children in Africa by looking at how local constructions of chi…

  • Resilience through participation and coping-enabling social environments

    Morten Skovdal, Marguerite Daniel•ARTICLE•African Journal of AIDS Research•2012

    Many children and youths living in low-resource and high-HIV-prevalence communities in sub-Saharan Africa are presented with daily hardships that few of us can even imagine. It is therefore no surprise that most research reporting on the experiences of HIV-affected children in resource-poor settings focuses on their poor health and development outcomes, casting them as victims. However, there is a growing trend to draw on more strengths-based con…

  • Coping with hardship through friendship

    Open Access•Morten Skovdal, Vincent Ogutu•ARTICLE•African Journal of AIDS Research•2012

    Children living in households affected by HIV face numerous challenges as they take on significant household-sustaining and caregiving roles, often in conditions of poverty. To respond to their hardships, we must identify and understand the support systems they are already part of. For this reason, and to emphasise the agentic capabilities of children, this article explores how vulnerable children cope with hardship through peer social capital. T…

  • How disclosure and antiretroviral therapy help HIV-infected adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa cope with stigma

    Vivian Midtbø, Violeth Shirima et al.•ARTICLE•African Journal of AIDS Research•2012

    HIV-related stigma has a major impact on the health and psychosocial wellbeing of HIV-infected children and youths. While there is some debate about the extent to which improved access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) contributes to a reduction in HIV stigma, we know little about how adolescents who know their HIV status and who are enrolled in ART experience and cope with stigma. The aim of the research was to understand and identify the pathways…

  • Pathologising healthy children? A review of the literature exploring the mental health of HIV-affected children in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open Access•Morten Skovdal•ARTICLE•Transcultural Psychiatry•2012

    This article reviews the expanding body of literature that examines the mental health of HIV-affected children in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on primary research across disciplines and methodologies, the review examines the use of universalistic assumptions about childhood adversity and mental health in driving forward this body of research. Of the 31 articles identified for this review, 23 had a focus on the psychological distress experienced b…

  • Local pain, global prescriptions? Using scale to analyse the globalisation of the HIV/Aids response

    Open Access•Catherine Campbell, Flora Cornish et al.•ARTICLE•Health & Place•2012

  • Household-based cash transfer targeting strategies in Zimbabwe

    Open Access•Laura Robertson, Phyllis Mushati et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2012•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 7

  • Social capital and HIV Competent Communities

    Open Access•Catherine Campbell, Kerry Scott et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2013

    Community involvement is increasingly identified as a "critical enabler" of an effective HIV/AIDS response. We explore pathways between community participation and HIV prevention, treatment and impact mitigation in Zimbabwe, reviewing six qualitative studies in Manicaland. These find that community group membership is often (not always) associated with decreased HIV incidence, reduced stigma and improved access to some services, particularly amon…

  • Evidence for a contribution of the community response to HIV decline in eastern Zimbabwe

    Open Access•Sarah Gregson, Constance Nyamukapa et al.•ARTICLE•AIDS Care•2013

    Membership of indigenous local community groups was protective against HIV for women, but not for men, in eastern Zimbabwe during the period of greatest risk reduction (1999-2004). We use four rounds of data from a population cohort to investigate: (1) the effects of membership of multiple community groups during this period; (2) the effects of group membership in the following five years; and (3) the effects of characteristics of groups hypothes…

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