Beth Vale

Biographic Data

ID8937145
NAMEBeth Vale
GIVEN NAMESBeth
FAMILY NAMEVale
SIGNATUREVALE B
AFFILIATIONSPercept Collective, South Africa
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • The virus in the queues

    Open AccessBrenda Vales, Beth Vales et al.ARTICLEThesis Eleven2023

    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…

  • Power to participants: Methodological and ethical reflections from a decade of adolescent advisory groups in South Africa

    Lucie D Cluver, Jenny Doubt et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2021

    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…

  • Traditional Leaders in a Democracy: Resources, Respect and Resistance

    Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Dineo Skosana et al.BOOKTraditional Leaders in a Democracy2019

  • Pesky metrics: The challenges of measuring ART adherence among HIV-positive adolescents in South Africa

    Open AccessRebecca Hodes, Lucie D Cluver et al.ARTICLECritical Public Health2018

    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…

  • Bureaucracies of Blood and Belonging: Documents, HIV-positive Youth and the State in South Africa

    Open AccessBrenda Vales, Beth Vales et al.ARTICLEDevelopment and Change2017Cited by: 3References: 23

    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

    Open AccessBrenda Vales, Beth Vales et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology Quarterly2017Cited by: 2References: 44

    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: Adolescent Antiretroviral Treatment and the Making of Home in South Africa

    Brenda Vales, Beth Vales et al.ARTICLEMedical Anthropology2016Cited by: 3References: 31

    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

    Brenda Vales, Beth Vales et al.ARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2015Cited by: 1

    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…