Sunanda Ray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sunanda Ray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sunanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Ray |
| SIGNATURE | RAY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Botswana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7214-1596 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Hearing the voices of midwives through reflective writing journals
Women attending public and private sector health facilities in Africa have reported abuse and neglect during childbirth, which carries a risk of poor health outcomes. We explored from the midwives’ perspective the influence of an educational intervention in changing the attitudes, behaviour and practices of a group of midwives in Zimbabwe, using transformative learning theory as the conceptual framework. The twelve-week educational intervention m…
Acceptability and feasibility of inter-related activities to improve agency among African district health managers
District health managers (DHMs) lead and manage Ministry of Health programmes and system performance. We report on the acceptability and feasibility of inter-related activities to increase the agency of DHMs in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda using a cross-sectional rapid appraisal with 372 DHMs employing structured questionnaires. We found differences and similarities between the countries, in particular, who becomes a DHM. The opportuni…
Family Physician Perceptions of Climate Change, Migration, Health, and Healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa
Although family physicians (FPs) are community-oriented primary care generalists and should be the entry point for the population's interaction with the health system, they are underrepresented in research on the climate change, migration, and health(care) nexus (hereafter referred to as the nexus). Similarly, FPs can provide valuable insights into building capacity through integrating health-determining sectors for climate-resilient and migratio…
Integration of HIV care into maternal health services
BACKGROUND: The failure to reduce preventable maternal deaths represents a violation of women's right to life, health, non-discrimination and equality. Maternal deaths result from weaknesses in health systems: inadequate financing of services, poor information systems, inefficient logistics management and most important, the lack of investment in the most valuable resource, the human resource of health workers. Inadequate senior leadership, poor …
Activism
Partnerships between civil society groups campaigning for reproductive and human rights, health professionals and others could contribute more to the strengthening of health systems needed to bring about declines in maternal deaths in Africa. The success of the HIV treatment literacy model developed by the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa provides useful lessons for activism on maternal mortality, especially the combination of a right-to…
Innovation to improve health care provision and health systems in sub-Saharan Africa – Promoting agency in mid-level workers and district managers
Initiatives to address the human resource crisis in African health systems have included expanded training of mid-level workers (MLWs). Currently, MLWs are the backbone of many health systems in Africa but they are often de-motivated and they often operate in circumstances in which providing high quality care is challenging. Therefore, assuming that introducing additional people will materially change health system performance is unrealistic. We …
Sexual Health for People Living with HIV
Sexual health is defined in terms of well-being, but is challenged by the social, cultural and economic realities faced by women and men with HIV. A sexual rights approach puts women and men with HIV in charge of their sexual health. Accurate, accessible information to make informed choices and safe, pleasurable sexual relationships possible is best delivered through peer education and health professionals trained in empathetic approaches to sens…
The HIV epidemic in Zimbabwe—The penalty of silence
This paper traces the rise of the HIV pandemic in Zimbabwe and also traces the history of official silence about it. The paper argues that women are a particularly vulnerable group, but are often the most deprived of treatment. The spread of the disease within the Zimbabwean diaspora is also described and it is pointed out how British asylum procedures can discourage bearers of the disease from seeking medical opinion and help. The medical profes…
Expanding Access to Antiretroviral Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa
We describe a number of pitfalls that may occur with the push to rapidly expand access to antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa. These include undesirable opportunity costs, the fragmentation of health systems, worsening health care inequities, and poor and unsustained treatment outcomes. On the other hand, AIDS “treatment activism” provides an opportunity to catalyze comprehensive health systems development and reduce health care inequiti…
We Miss You All. Noerine Kaleeba
Mrs. Noerine Kaleeba found out in 1986 that her husband Chris was dying from AIDS. Chris fought his way back from the depths of his illness in 1986 but nonetheless succumbed to a painful death in January 1987. Mrs. Kaleeba subsequently organized The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) in Uganda where she serves as its Director. TASO is the 1st organized community response to the AIDS epidemic in Uganda. Comprised of a group of volunteers organized i…
Alcohol Use and High-Risk Sexual Behavior Among Adolescents and Young Adults in Harare, Zimbabwe
Constraints Faced by Sex Workers in Use of Female and Male Condoms for Safer Sex in Urban Zimbabwe
Disclosure of HIV status and human rights
(2000). Disclosure of HIV status and human rights: The duties and responsibilities of couples, medical professionals, family members and the state. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 8, Reproductive rights, human rights and ethics, pp. 158-159
AZT therapy should now be evaluated for six months post-partum
AZT therapy should now be evaluated for six months post-partum." Reproductive Health Matters, 6(11), pp. 142–143
Sexual behaviour and risk assessment of HIV seroconvertors among urban male factory workers in Zimbabwe
Local voices
For more effective prevention strategies against heterosexual transmission of HIV to be developed in Africa, it is essential to look at lay beliefs and attitudes towards sex, as well as negotiation strategies and gender relations between sexual partners. Anyreduction in practices which enhance women's vulnerability will require the willingness ofmen. The study described here was a pilot study among male factory workers in Harare, to examine their…
Acceptability of the female condom in Zimbabwe
An acceptability study of the female condom was carried out in Zimbabwe among sex workers (89), urban women attending a family planning clinic in Harare (84), and rural women (23). Their main reason for trying this new method was as protection from sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Over 50 per cent of the women in all three groups said that they and their partners liked the condom very much and preferred it to the male condom. Less …
Antibody Politic
Expanding Access to Antiretroviral Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa
We describe a number of pitfalls that may occur with the push to rapidly expand access to antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa. These include undesirable opportunity costs, the fragmentation of health systems, worsening health care inequities, and poor and unsustained treatment outcomes. On the other hand, AIDS “treatment activism” provides an opportunity to catalyze comprehensive health systems development and reduce health care inequiti…
Sexual behaviour and risk assessment of HIV seroconvertors among urban male factory workers in Zimbabwe
Activism
Partnerships between civil society groups campaigning for reproductive and human rights, health professionals and others could contribute more to the strengthening of health systems needed to bring about declines in maternal deaths in Africa. The success of the HIV treatment literacy model developed by the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa provides useful lessons for activism on maternal mortality, especially the combination of a right-to…
Sexual Health for People Living with HIV
Sexual health is defined in terms of well-being, but is challenged by the social, cultural and economic realities faced by women and men with HIV. A sexual rights approach puts women and men with HIV in charge of their sexual health. Accurate, accessible information to make informed choices and safe, pleasurable sexual relationships possible is best delivered through peer education and health professionals trained in empathetic approaches to sens…
Local voices
For more effective prevention strategies against heterosexual transmission of HIV to be developed in Africa, it is essential to look at lay beliefs and attitudes towards sex, as well as negotiation strategies and gender relations between sexual partners. Anyreduction in practices which enhance women's vulnerability will require the willingness ofmen. The study described here was a pilot study among male factory workers in Harare, to examine their…
Antibody Politic
Acceptability of the female condom in Zimbabwe
An acceptability study of the female condom was carried out in Zimbabwe among sex workers (89), urban women attending a family planning clinic in Harare (84), and rural women (23). Their main reason for trying this new method was as protection from sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Over 50 per cent of the women in all three groups said that they and their partners liked the condom very much and preferred it to the male condom. Less …
Local voices
For more effective prevention strategies against heterosexual transmission of HIV to be developed in Africa, it is essential to look at lay beliefs and attitudes towards sex, as well as negotiation strategies and gender relations between sexual partners. Anyreduction in practices which enhance women's vulnerability will require the willingness ofmen. The study described here was a pilot study among male factory workers in Harare, to examine their…
AZT therapy should now be evaluated for six months post-partum
AZT therapy should now be evaluated for six months post-partum." Reproductive Health Matters, 6(11), pp. 142–143
Sexual behaviour and risk assessment of HIV seroconvertors among urban male factory workers in Zimbabwe
Disclosure of HIV status and human rights
(2000). Disclosure of HIV status and human rights: The duties and responsibilities of couples, medical professionals, family members and the state. Reproductive Health Matters: Vol. 8, Reproductive rights, human rights and ethics, pp. 158-159
Constraints Faced by Sex Workers in Use of Female and Male Condoms for Safer Sex in Urban Zimbabwe
Alcohol Use and High-Risk Sexual Behavior Among Adolescents and Young Adults in Harare, Zimbabwe
We Miss You All. Noerine Kaleeba
Mrs. Noerine Kaleeba found out in 1986 that her husband Chris was dying from AIDS. Chris fought his way back from the depths of his illness in 1986 but nonetheless succumbed to a painful death in January 1987. Mrs. Kaleeba subsequently organized The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) in Uganda where she serves as its Director. TASO is the 1st organized community response to the AIDS epidemic in Uganda. Comprised of a group of volunteers organized i…
Expanding Access to Antiretroviral Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa
We describe a number of pitfalls that may occur with the push to rapidly expand access to antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa. These include undesirable opportunity costs, the fragmentation of health systems, worsening health care inequities, and poor and unsustained treatment outcomes. On the other hand, AIDS “treatment activism” provides an opportunity to catalyze comprehensive health systems development and reduce health care inequiti…
The HIV epidemic in Zimbabwe—The penalty of silence
This paper traces the rise of the HIV pandemic in Zimbabwe and also traces the history of official silence about it. The paper argues that women are a particularly vulnerable group, but are often the most deprived of treatment. The spread of the disease within the Zimbabwean diaspora is also described and it is pointed out how British asylum procedures can discourage bearers of the disease from seeking medical opinion and help. The medical profes…
Sexual Health for People Living with HIV
Sexual health is defined in terms of well-being, but is challenged by the social, cultural and economic realities faced by women and men with HIV. A sexual rights approach puts women and men with HIV in charge of their sexual health. Accurate, accessible information to make informed choices and safe, pleasurable sexual relationships possible is best delivered through peer education and health professionals trained in empathetic approaches to sens…
Innovation to improve health care provision and health systems in sub-Saharan Africa – Promoting agency in mid-level workers and district managers
Initiatives to address the human resource crisis in African health systems have included expanded training of mid-level workers (MLWs). Currently, MLWs are the backbone of many health systems in Africa but they are often de-motivated and they often operate in circumstances in which providing high quality care is challenging. Therefore, assuming that introducing additional people will materially change health system performance is unrealistic. We …
Activism
Partnerships between civil society groups campaigning for reproductive and human rights, health professionals and others could contribute more to the strengthening of health systems needed to bring about declines in maternal deaths in Africa. The success of the HIV treatment literacy model developed by the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa provides useful lessons for activism on maternal mortality, especially the combination of a right-to…
Integration of HIV care into maternal health services
BACKGROUND: The failure to reduce preventable maternal deaths represents a violation of women's right to life, health, non-discrimination and equality. Maternal deaths result from weaknesses in health systems: inadequate financing of services, poor information systems, inefficient logistics management and most important, the lack of investment in the most valuable resource, the human resource of health workers. Inadequate senior leadership, poor …
Acceptability and feasibility of inter-related activities to improve agency among African district health managers
District health managers (DHMs) lead and manage Ministry of Health programmes and system performance. We report on the acceptability and feasibility of inter-related activities to increase the agency of DHMs in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda using a cross-sectional rapid appraisal with 372 DHMs employing structured questionnaires. We found differences and similarities between the countries, in particular, who becomes a DHM. The opportuni…
Family Physician Perceptions of Climate Change, Migration, Health, and Healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa
Although family physicians (FPs) are community-oriented primary care generalists and should be the entry point for the population's interaction with the health system, they are underrepresented in research on the climate change, migration, and health(care) nexus (hereafter referred to as the nexus). Similarly, FPs can provide valuable insights into building capacity through integrating health-determining sectors for climate-resilient and migratio…
Hearing the voices of midwives through reflective writing journals
Women attending public and private sector health facilities in Africa have reported abuse and neglect during childbirth, which carries a risk of poor health outcomes. We explored from the midwives’ perspective the influence of an educational intervention in changing the attitudes, behaviour and practices of a group of midwives in Zimbabwe, using transformative learning theory as the conceptual framework. The twelve-week educational intervention m…
Medicine (17 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Family medicine (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (7 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works)