Marion Stevens
Biographic Data
| ID | 3877646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marion Stevens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marion |
| FAMILY NAME | Stevens |
| SIGNATURE | STEVENS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5199-6694 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Understanding the Relationship Between Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Status Disclosure Across Health Care Settings in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Scoping Review
HIV status disclosure is an ethical obligation and, in some jurisdictions, a legal requirement that supports treatment adherence. In Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA), where intimate partner violence (IPV) is prevalent, disclosure may have harmful consequences. The objective of this scoping review was to map the relationship between IPV and HIV disclosure across health care settings in ESA. Following PRISMA-ScR guidelines, peer-reviewed English-l…
The Intimacy of Held Solidarity: A Joint Memoir of Activism
This work reflects the slow intimacy of solidarity over time. We uncover some of what we know and have known with examples from anti-apartheid activism and the women's health movement in South Africa. Solidarity is an expression of knowing trust. Knowing that you are often on each other's side and leaning towards justice, demanding a relationship of knowing in instances of vulnerability. Being held in solidarity is a gesture of engaging in a shar…
Diffractive swimming: Learning though a Robben Island crossing SPECIAL Issue
This is an experimental piece following 30 years of implementation work in sexual and reproductive justice. In 2021, I started my PhD and wild water swimming. While separate initiatives, my time in the sea enabled deep, slow, focused diffractive process in which my thoughts, connections, obstacles, engagements, relationships, memories, and writing flowed with the human embodiment of ocean watery swimming. After my proposal was finalised, I ventur…
Contester le genre et la colonialité: Une analyse des mobilisations conservatrices en Afrique du Sud, au Kenya et au Ghana
Au cours de la dernière décennie, a émergé un mouvement hétéroclite œuvrant à réduire les progrès réalisés en matière de santé, de droits sexuels et reproductifs et d'égalité des sexes dans les pays africains. Composé en partie d'organisations occidentales ultraconservatrices ayant des liens transnationaux étroits, il conçoit des campagnes, désigne des portes-paroles locaux, met en place des bureaux satellites, et fournit financements et formatio…
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Where is the progress since Beijing
Twenty-five years since the Fourth World Conference on Women, as a result of feminist organising and activism, there has been substantial law reform and transformation in South Africa. Yet, as for many countries in southern Africa, we have yet to see full implementation and universal access to services for girls and women. This article in offering reflections from the past 25 years, notes how the new democratic government set about replacing the …
Sexual and reproductive health and rights and mHealth in policy and practice in South Africa
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) offers enormous opportunity and innovation to improve public health and health systems.This paper explores the intersections between mHealth and sexual and reproductive health and rights in both policy and practice. It is a qualitative study, informed by policy review and key informant interviews. Three case studies provide evidence of what is happening on the ground in relation to ICTs and reproduc…
Maternal Mortality – HIV and unsafe abortion – a silent epidemic
From HIV prevention to reproductive health choices: HIV/Aids treatment guidelines for women of reproductive age
In South Africa, the private sector has responded to the HIV epidemic by providing treatment in the form of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). The private sector has paved the way for policy and treatment regimens, while the public sector has reviewed health-systems capacity and the political will to provide treatment. The paradigm of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) has led the way as a clear evidenced-based m…
Needlestick injuries in an era of HIV: Technical and personal aspects
Hospitals are workplaces in which HIV has double significance. Needlestick accidents link patients, healthcare workers and cleaning staff through the risk of occupational exposure to HIV. Additionally, concern over needlestick injuries may embody HIV stigma, discrimination and fear. This paper draws on qualitative research from a one-year case study at a large, private South African healthcare company that runs a number of hospitals across the co…
Understanding the response of large South African companies to HIV/Aids
This paper provides a framework analysing the response of South African companies to HIV/AIDS. Drawing on three case studies of companies, each with over 20,000 South African-based employees, we identify six 'drivers' that influence corporate behaviour regarding HIV/AIDS: legal requirements, voluntary regulation, business costs, social pressures, visibility of the disease, and individuals within companies. We suggest that costs calculations, whil…
Commentary
"Commentary." Reproductive Health Matters, 5(9), pp. 119–120
Putting Sexual Rights on Our Agenda
MARION STEVENS reports on an intersectoral reproductive rights conference which will bring a national action plan together to tackle poor teenage sexual reproductive health, violence and HIV and AIDS
Healthwatch: Focus on Abortion
Developing women's health policy in South Africa from the grassroots
The Women's Health Conference in South Africa in December 1994 aimed to identify women's health needs and translate them into policy proposals. The process was inclusive and bottom up and cut across barriers of race, class and ideology. Prior to the conference, policy groups developed draftproposals on major areas of women's health, while provincial networking got input from the grassroots. The conference gave women space to talk about their expe…
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Where is the progress since Beijing
Twenty-five years since the Fourth World Conference on Women, as a result of feminist organising and activism, there has been substantial law reform and transformation in South Africa. Yet, as for many countries in southern Africa, we have yet to see full implementation and universal access to services for girls and women. This article in offering reflections from the past 25 years, notes how the new democratic government set about replacing the …
Contester le genre et la colonialité: Une analyse des mobilisations conservatrices en Afrique du Sud, au Kenya et au Ghana
Au cours de la dernière décennie, a émergé un mouvement hétéroclite œuvrant à réduire les progrès réalisés en matière de santé, de droits sexuels et reproductifs et d'égalité des sexes dans les pays africains. Composé en partie d'organisations occidentales ultraconservatrices ayant des liens transnationaux étroits, il conçoit des campagnes, désigne des portes-paroles locaux, met en place des bureaux satellites, et fournit financements et formatio…
Developing women's health policy in South Africa from the grassroots
The Women's Health Conference in South Africa in December 1994 aimed to identify women's health needs and translate them into policy proposals. The process was inclusive and bottom up and cut across barriers of race, class and ideology. Prior to the conference, policy groups developed draftproposals on major areas of women's health, while provincial networking got input from the grassroots. The conference gave women space to talk about their expe…
The Intimacy of Held Solidarity: A Joint Memoir of Activism
This work reflects the slow intimacy of solidarity over time. We uncover some of what we know and have known with examples from anti-apartheid activism and the women's health movement in South Africa. Solidarity is an expression of knowing trust. Knowing that you are often on each other's side and leaning towards justice, demanding a relationship of knowing in instances of vulnerability. Being held in solidarity is a gesture of engaging in a shar…
Maternal Mortality – HIV and unsafe abortion – a silent epidemic
Healthwatch: Focus on Abortion
Developing women's health policy in South Africa from the grassroots
The Women's Health Conference in South Africa in December 1994 aimed to identify women's health needs and translate them into policy proposals. The process was inclusive and bottom up and cut across barriers of race, class and ideology. Prior to the conference, policy groups developed draftproposals on major areas of women's health, while provincial networking got input from the grassroots. The conference gave women space to talk about their expe…
Commentary
"Commentary." Reproductive Health Matters, 5(9), pp. 119–120
Putting Sexual Rights on Our Agenda
MARION STEVENS reports on an intersectoral reproductive rights conference which will bring a national action plan together to tackle poor teenage sexual reproductive health, violence and HIV and AIDS
Understanding the response of large South African companies to HIV/Aids
This paper provides a framework analysing the response of South African companies to HIV/AIDS. Drawing on three case studies of companies, each with over 20,000 South African-based employees, we identify six 'drivers' that influence corporate behaviour regarding HIV/AIDS: legal requirements, voluntary regulation, business costs, social pressures, visibility of the disease, and individuals within companies. We suggest that costs calculations, whil…
Needlestick injuries in an era of HIV: Technical and personal aspects
Hospitals are workplaces in which HIV has double significance. Needlestick accidents link patients, healthcare workers and cleaning staff through the risk of occupational exposure to HIV. Additionally, concern over needlestick injuries may embody HIV stigma, discrimination and fear. This paper draws on qualitative research from a one-year case study at a large, private South African healthcare company that runs a number of hospitals across the co…
From HIV prevention to reproductive health choices: HIV/Aids treatment guidelines for women of reproductive age
In South Africa, the private sector has responded to the HIV epidemic by providing treatment in the form of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). The private sector has paved the way for policy and treatment regimens, while the public sector has reviewed health-systems capacity and the political will to provide treatment. The paradigm of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) has led the way as a clear evidenced-based m…
Maternal Mortality – HIV and unsafe abortion – a silent epidemic
Sexual and reproductive health and rights and mHealth in policy and practice in South Africa
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) offers enormous opportunity and innovation to improve public health and health systems.This paper explores the intersections between mHealth and sexual and reproductive health and rights in both policy and practice. It is a qualitative study, informed by policy review and key informant interviews. Three case studies provide evidence of what is happening on the ground in relation to ICTs and reproduc…
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Where is the progress since Beijing
Twenty-five years since the Fourth World Conference on Women, as a result of feminist organising and activism, there has been substantial law reform and transformation in South Africa. Yet, as for many countries in southern Africa, we have yet to see full implementation and universal access to services for girls and women. This article in offering reflections from the past 25 years, notes how the new democratic government set about replacing the …
Diffractive swimming: Learning though a Robben Island crossing SPECIAL Issue
This is an experimental piece following 30 years of implementation work in sexual and reproductive justice. In 2021, I started my PhD and wild water swimming. While separate initiatives, my time in the sea enabled deep, slow, focused diffractive process in which my thoughts, connections, obstacles, engagements, relationships, memories, and writing flowed with the human embodiment of ocean watery swimming. After my proposal was finalised, I ventur…
Contester le genre et la colonialité: Une analyse des mobilisations conservatrices en Afrique du Sud, au Kenya et au Ghana
Au cours de la dernière décennie, a émergé un mouvement hétéroclite œuvrant à réduire les progrès réalisés en matière de santé, de droits sexuels et reproductifs et d'égalité des sexes dans les pays africains. Composé en partie d'organisations occidentales ultraconservatrices ayant des liens transnationaux étroits, il conçoit des campagnes, désigne des portes-paroles locaux, met en place des bureaux satellites, et fournit financements et formatio…
The Intimacy of Held Solidarity: A Joint Memoir of Activism
This work reflects the slow intimacy of solidarity over time. We uncover some of what we know and have known with examples from anti-apartheid activism and the women's health movement in South Africa. Solidarity is an expression of knowing trust. Knowing that you are often on each other's side and leaning towards justice, demanding a relationship of knowing in instances of vulnerability. Being held in solidarity is a gesture of engaging in a shar…
Understanding the Relationship Between Intimate Partner Violence and HIV Status Disclosure Across Health Care Settings in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Scoping Review
HIV status disclosure is an ethical obligation and, in some jurisdictions, a legal requirement that supports treatment adherence. In Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA), where intimate partner violence (IPV) is prevalent, disclosure may have harmful consequences. The objective of this scoping review was to map the relationship between IPV and HIV disclosure across health care settings in ESA. Following PRISMA-ScR guidelines, peer-reviewed English-l…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Population (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Reproductive health (4 works) · Abortion (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works)