Ethel Venables
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 148027 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ethel Venables |
| PRENOMES | Ethel |
| SOBRENOME | Venables |
| ASSINATURA | VENABLES E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6647-380X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1960 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Understanding the political economy of reforming global health initiatives – insights from global and country levels
INTRODUCTION: Since 2000, the number and role of global health initiatives (GHIs) has been growing, with these platforms playing an increasingly important role in pooling and disbursing funds dedicated to specific global health priorities. While recognising their important contribution, there has also been a growth in concerns about distortions and inefficiencies linked to the GHIs and attempts to improve their alignment with country health syste…
Slipping through the cracks
Advanced HIV causes substantial mortality in sub-Saharan Africa despite widespread antiretroviral therapy coverage. This paper explores pathways of care amongst hospitalised patients with advanced HIV in rural Kenya and urban Democratic Republic of the Congo, with a view to understanding their care-seeking trajectories and poor health outcomes. Thirty in-depth interviews were conducted with hospitalised patients with advanced HIV who had previous…
I try the one that they say is good.” - factors influencing choice of health care provider and pathways to diabetes care for Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Syrian refugees with diabetes in Lebanon face considerable challenges in navigating the health care system due to their vulnerable status and limited knowledge of the host country systems. To ensure access to care for diabetes, efforts need to be made to support patients' orientation in the Lebanese health system
I don’t know when he will be back”
Changing life circumstances, changes in relationships and a lack of participation by CAG members altered the CAG dynamic, which sometimes affected adherence. Some CAGs responded to challenges by intensifying peer support, including to those diagnosed with virological failure. To ensure flexible implementation and modification of CAGs to the inevitable changes in life circumstances of its members, feedback mechanisms should be implemented between …
It’s a secret between us”
Child disclosure is a complex process for care-givers, health-care workers and the children themselves. Care-givers may require additional psycho-social support to manage disclosure. Involving multiple care-givers in the care of HIV positive children could offer additional support for disclosure
Perceptions and Health-Seeking Behaviour for Mental Illness Among Syrian Refugees and Lebanese Community Members in Wadi Khaled, North Lebanon
This is a qualitative exploration of the perceptions of mental health (MH) and their influence on health-seeking behaviour among Syrian refugees and the Lebanese population in Wadi Khaled, a rural area of Lebanon bordering Syria. Eight focus group discussions and eight key informant interviews were conducted with male and female Syrian refugees and Lebanese community members from March to April 2018. MH illness was associated with stigma, shame a…
“With every passing day I feel like a candle, melting little by little.” experiences of long-term displacement amongst Syrian refugees in Shatila, Lebanon
In island containment
Functional support networks are urgently required to overcome the consequences of restrictive policies which force people into containment and remove their support systems. Actors who are involved in providing social support, including MSF, are strongly encouraged to engage in activities that work towards building and strengthening peer support networks and creating a sense of community
Behind the Scenes of South Africa’s Asylum Procedure
Despite the difficulties experienced by asylum-seekers in South Africa, little research has explored long-term asylum applicants. This exploratory qualitative study describes how protracted asylum procedures and associated conditions are experienced by Congolese asylum-seekers in Tshwane, South Africa. Eighteen asylum-seekers and eight key informants participated in the study. All asylum-seekers had arrived in South Africa between 2003 and 2013, …
I feel like I am less than other people
During 2015 and 2016, an unprecedented flow of approximately 800,000 migrants coming from Turkey towards Western Europe crossed the Balkans. Male migrants are perceived as being less vulnerable compared to other migrants and they are not given priority in service and support provision. This qualitative study examines the self-perceived vulnerabilities of male migrants travelling alone along the Balkan route to Europe. Twenty-four individual in-de…
Using surrogate vaccines to assess feasibility and acceptability of future HIV vaccine trials in men
Recruitment and retention of men into vaccine trials is feasible and acceptable in our setting. Findings from this surrogate vaccine trial show a high willingness to participate in future HIV vaccine trials. While access to potentially effective vaccines is important, quality health services are an equally compelling incentive for enrolment
From fear to resilience
Adolescents in Hillbrow commonly witnessed and had direct experience of many forms of violence in their environment, and these experiences differed markedly by gender. Interventions that build young peoples' social capital and resilience are essential for reducing violence-related trauma and long-term health and social consequences for adolescents in this community
Leaving no one behind’
To improve efforts to address HIV in urban informal settings, intervention designers must acknowledge and engage with the priorities set by the marginalised communities that live here, which may well encompass more pressing issues associated with daily survival
Atomic Bombs' in Monrovia, Liberia
Survivors of the Ebola virus have been widely profiled as the success stories of the outbreak, yet they still face challenges relating to their identity and reintegration. A survivor's body takes on new meanings after experiencing Ebola, and the label 'survivor' is as problematic as it is celebratory. Using data conducted during fieldwork in Monrovia, Liberia, this article discusses the complex identities of Ebola survivors. In Monrovia, most of …
Engaging Anthropology in an Ebola Outbreak
The articles in this special issue demonstrate, through ethnographic fieldwork and observations, how anthropologists and the methodological tools of their discipline became a means of understanding the Ebola outbreak in West Africa during 2014 and 2015. The examples, from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, show how anthropologists were involved in the Ebola outbreak at different points during the crisis and the contributions their work made. Discu…
Exploring Bodies in Southern and East Africa
Joost Fontein at the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Emilie Venables from the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute of the University of the Witwatersrand, and Professor Jo Vearey of the African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand. We would like to thank all workshop participants for their presentations, and all mentors and reviewers for their support with the writing process.Additional informationNotes on contribu…
Using HPV vaccination for promotion of an adolescent package of care
There is generally support for the delivery of adolescent preventive health services. Despite national priorities to address adolescent health needs, our data suggest that national policies might not always be appropriate for vastly different local situations. While decisions about interventions to include have traditionally been made at country level, our results suggest that local context needs to be taken account of. We suggest low resource st…
The study has taught me to be supportive of her’
Recognising that women often have little control over most HIV-prevention methods, including condoms, researchers have made efforts to develop new bio-technological interventions, such as microbicides, that could allow women greater autonomy in HIV-prevention decision making. In many situations, women are unable to negotiate condom use with their partners, meaning that they could be better protected through the use of an effective microbicide. Th…
Senegalese Women and the Cyber Café
In this article, I show how young women in the Senegalese town of Ziguinchor are using Internet technologies as a way to communicate with European men in the hope of forming relationships that may lead to transnational migration. Rather than assessing the degree to which women are successful in their aspirations, I consider how online communication enables them to assert their agency and imagine a better future for themselves
Apprentices out of Their Time. A Follow-up Study
If you give me some sexing, I might talk to you
This paper examines some of the difficulties that I encountered during my doctoral fieldwork on aspirations of migration amongst young men and women in Senegal. I discuss how my fieldwork with the beach-boys of the Casamance often led to compromising situations that I had not experienced in other areas of my research. Using one interview in particular, I describe the discomfort and guilt I often felt during my fieldwork, and show how I felt torn …
The Young Worker at College
Proposed Affinities in British-American Perspectives of Adolescence
New insights into learning processes and into the unconscious springs of behavior make inescapable a recognition of the need to educate for responsibility. Young people need to learn to understand and to share the responsibilities of adult living-not suddenly at 21, but gradually throughout the years of growing up. Reading statistics backwards is recommended, as is recognition of the potential law breaker within human beings. A solemn meritocracy…
Changes in Intelligence Test Scores of Engineering Apprentices Between the First and Third Years of Attendance at College
S ummary . A group of part‐time day release engineering students in three local technical colleges were given a verbal and a non‐verbal intelligence test early in their first year, and half way through their third year. Statistically significant gains were made on the verbal test at all levels of initial score. Students who had no failures in the previous two examinations showed greater gains than those who had failed at least once. Gains also va…
Placement Problems Among Engineering Apprentices in Part‐time Technical College Courses
S ummary . It is generally believed that the high failure rates in part‐time technical college classes are due to lack of ability. Scores on two intelligence and two attainment tests obtained by 678 engineering students in four technical colleges gave a multiple R of 0·51 with success in the first year examination of the Ordinary National Certificate. In the trade examinations, the figure was 0·61. Curves of least misfits gave ‘cut‐off’ scores fo…
I feel like I am less than other people
During 2015 and 2016, an unprecedented flow of approximately 800,000 migrants coming from Turkey towards Western Europe crossed the Balkans. Male migrants are perceived as being less vulnerable compared to other migrants and they are not given priority in service and support provision. This qualitative study examines the self-perceived vulnerabilities of male migrants travelling alone along the Balkan route to Europe. Twenty-four individual in-de…
Engaging Anthropology in an Ebola Outbreak
The articles in this special issue demonstrate, through ethnographic fieldwork and observations, how anthropologists and the methodological tools of their discipline became a means of understanding the Ebola outbreak in West Africa during 2014 and 2015. The examples, from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, show how anthropologists were involved in the Ebola outbreak at different points during the crisis and the contributions their work made. Discu…
Behind the Scenes of South Africa’s Asylum Procedure
Despite the difficulties experienced by asylum-seekers in South Africa, little research has explored long-term asylum applicants. This exploratory qualitative study describes how protracted asylum procedures and associated conditions are experienced by Congolese asylum-seekers in Tshwane, South Africa. Eighteen asylum-seekers and eight key informants participated in the study. All asylum-seekers had arrived in South Africa between 2003 and 2013, …
Senegalese Women and the Cyber Café
In this article, I show how young women in the Senegalese town of Ziguinchor are using Internet technologies as a way to communicate with European men in the hope of forming relationships that may lead to transnational migration. Rather than assessing the degree to which women are successful in their aspirations, I consider how online communication enables them to assert their agency and imagine a better future for themselves
Atomic Bombs' in Monrovia, Liberia
Survivors of the Ebola virus have been widely profiled as the success stories of the outbreak, yet they still face challenges relating to their identity and reintegration. A survivor's body takes on new meanings after experiencing Ebola, and the label 'survivor' is as problematic as it is celebratory. Using data conducted during fieldwork in Monrovia, Liberia, this article discusses the complex identities of Ebola survivors. In Monrovia, most of …
If you give me some sexing, I might talk to you
This paper examines some of the difficulties that I encountered during my doctoral fieldwork on aspirations of migration amongst young men and women in Senegal. I discuss how my fieldwork with the beach-boys of the Casamance often led to compromising situations that I had not experienced in other areas of my research. Using one interview in particular, I describe the discomfort and guilt I often felt during my fieldwork, and show how I felt torn …
Perceptions and Health-Seeking Behaviour for Mental Illness Among Syrian Refugees and Lebanese Community Members in Wadi Khaled, North Lebanon
This is a qualitative exploration of the perceptions of mental health (MH) and their influence on health-seeking behaviour among Syrian refugees and the Lebanese population in Wadi Khaled, a rural area of Lebanon bordering Syria. Eight focus group discussions and eight key informant interviews were conducted with male and female Syrian refugees and Lebanese community members from March to April 2018. MH illness was associated with stigma, shame a…
Exploring Bodies in Southern and East Africa
Joost Fontein at the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Emilie Venables from the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute of the University of the Witwatersrand, and Professor Jo Vearey of the African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand. We would like to thank all workshop participants for their presentations, and all mentors and reviewers for their support with the writing process.Additional informationNotes on contribu…
Placement Problems Among Engineering Apprentices in Part‐time Technical College Courses
S ummary . Three groups of part‐time day release students taking first year Ordinary National Certificate Classes in engineering were given a verbal and non‐verbal intelligence test (N> 1000). On the verbal test the mean score was only slightly above that for the population as a whole, but on the non‐verbal test 89 per cent. were at or above the fiftieth percentile with 27 per cent. in the top 10 per cent. of the population. Recent attempts to im…
Changes in Intelligence Test Scores of Engineering Apprentices Between the First and Third Years of Attendance at College
S ummary . A group of part‐time day release engineering students in three local technical colleges were given a verbal and a non‐verbal intelligence test early in their first year, and half way through their third year. Statistically significant gains were made on the verbal test at all levels of initial score. Students who had no failures in the previous two examinations showed greater gains than those who had failed at least once. Gains also va…
Placement Problems Among Engineering Apprentices in Part‐time Technical College Courses
S ummary . It is generally believed that the high failure rates in part‐time technical college classes are due to lack of ability. Scores on two intelligence and two attainment tests obtained by 678 engineering students in four technical colleges gave a multiple R of 0·51 with success in the first year examination of the Ordinary National Certificate. In the trade examinations, the figure was 0·61. Curves of least misfits gave ‘cut‐off’ scores fo…
Proposed Affinities in British-American Perspectives of Adolescence
New insights into learning processes and into the unconscious springs of behavior make inescapable a recognition of the need to educate for responsibility. Young people need to learn to understand and to share the responsibilities of adult living-not suddenly at 21, but gradually throughout the years of growing up. Reading statistics backwards is recommended, as is recognition of the potential law breaker within human beings. A solemn meritocracy…
The Young Worker at College
If you give me some sexing, I might talk to you
This paper examines some of the difficulties that I encountered during my doctoral fieldwork on aspirations of migration amongst young men and women in Senegal. I discuss how my fieldwork with the beach-boys of the Casamance often led to compromising situations that I had not experienced in other areas of my research. Using one interview in particular, I describe the discomfort and guilt I often felt during my fieldwork, and show how I felt torn …
Apprentices out of Their Time. A Follow-up Study
Senegalese Women and the Cyber Café
In this article, I show how young women in the Senegalese town of Ziguinchor are using Internet technologies as a way to communicate with European men in the hope of forming relationships that may lead to transnational migration. Rather than assessing the degree to which women are successful in their aspirations, I consider how online communication enables them to assert their agency and imagine a better future for themselves
The study has taught me to be supportive of her’
Recognising that women often have little control over most HIV-prevention methods, including condoms, researchers have made efforts to develop new bio-technological interventions, such as microbicides, that could allow women greater autonomy in HIV-prevention decision making. In many situations, women are unable to negotiate condom use with their partners, meaning that they could be better protected through the use of an effective microbicide. Th…
Using HPV vaccination for promotion of an adolescent package of care
There is generally support for the delivery of adolescent preventive health services. Despite national priorities to address adolescent health needs, our data suggest that national policies might not always be appropriate for vastly different local situations. While decisions about interventions to include have traditionally been made at country level, our results suggest that local context needs to be taken account of. We suggest low resource st…
Exploring Bodies in Southern and East Africa
Joost Fontein at the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Emilie Venables from the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute of the University of the Witwatersrand, and Professor Jo Vearey of the African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand. We would like to thank all workshop participants for their presentations, and all mentors and reviewers for their support with the writing process.Additional informationNotes on contribu…
Using surrogate vaccines to assess feasibility and acceptability of future HIV vaccine trials in men
Recruitment and retention of men into vaccine trials is feasible and acceptable in our setting. Findings from this surrogate vaccine trial show a high willingness to participate in future HIV vaccine trials. While access to potentially effective vaccines is important, quality health services are an equally compelling incentive for enrolment
From fear to resilience
Adolescents in Hillbrow commonly witnessed and had direct experience of many forms of violence in their environment, and these experiences differed markedly by gender. Interventions that build young peoples' social capital and resilience are essential for reducing violence-related trauma and long-term health and social consequences for adolescents in this community
Leaving no one behind’
To improve efforts to address HIV in urban informal settings, intervention designers must acknowledge and engage with the priorities set by the marginalised communities that live here, which may well encompass more pressing issues associated with daily survival
Atomic Bombs' in Monrovia, Liberia
Survivors of the Ebola virus have been widely profiled as the success stories of the outbreak, yet they still face challenges relating to their identity and reintegration. A survivor's body takes on new meanings after experiencing Ebola, and the label 'survivor' is as problematic as it is celebratory. Using data conducted during fieldwork in Monrovia, Liberia, this article discusses the complex identities of Ebola survivors. In Monrovia, most of …
Engaging Anthropology in an Ebola Outbreak
The articles in this special issue demonstrate, through ethnographic fieldwork and observations, how anthropologists and the methodological tools of their discipline became a means of understanding the Ebola outbreak in West Africa during 2014 and 2015. The examples, from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, show how anthropologists were involved in the Ebola outbreak at different points during the crisis and the contributions their work made. Discu…
I feel like I am less than other people
During 2015 and 2016, an unprecedented flow of approximately 800,000 migrants coming from Turkey towards Western Europe crossed the Balkans. Male migrants are perceived as being less vulnerable compared to other migrants and they are not given priority in service and support provision. This qualitative study examines the self-perceived vulnerabilities of male migrants travelling alone along the Balkan route to Europe. Twenty-four individual in-de…
“With every passing day I feel like a candle, melting little by little.” experiences of long-term displacement amongst Syrian refugees in Shatila, Lebanon
In island containment
Functional support networks are urgently required to overcome the consequences of restrictive policies which force people into containment and remove their support systems. Actors who are involved in providing social support, including MSF, are strongly encouraged to engage in activities that work towards building and strengthening peer support networks and creating a sense of community
Behind the Scenes of South Africa’s Asylum Procedure
Despite the difficulties experienced by asylum-seekers in South Africa, little research has explored long-term asylum applicants. This exploratory qualitative study describes how protracted asylum procedures and associated conditions are experienced by Congolese asylum-seekers in Tshwane, South Africa. Eighteen asylum-seekers and eight key informants participated in the study. All asylum-seekers had arrived in South Africa between 2003 and 2013, …
Perceptions and Health-Seeking Behaviour for Mental Illness Among Syrian Refugees and Lebanese Community Members in Wadi Khaled, North Lebanon
This is a qualitative exploration of the perceptions of mental health (MH) and their influence on health-seeking behaviour among Syrian refugees and the Lebanese population in Wadi Khaled, a rural area of Lebanon bordering Syria. Eight focus group discussions and eight key informant interviews were conducted with male and female Syrian refugees and Lebanese community members from March to April 2018. MH illness was associated with stigma, shame a…
I try the one that they say is good.” - factors influencing choice of health care provider and pathways to diabetes care for Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Syrian refugees with diabetes in Lebanon face considerable challenges in navigating the health care system due to their vulnerable status and limited knowledge of the host country systems. To ensure access to care for diabetes, efforts need to be made to support patients' orientation in the Lebanese health system
I don’t know when he will be back”
Changing life circumstances, changes in relationships and a lack of participation by CAG members altered the CAG dynamic, which sometimes affected adherence. Some CAGs responded to challenges by intensifying peer support, including to those diagnosed with virological failure. To ensure flexible implementation and modification of CAGs to the inevitable changes in life circumstances of its members, feedback mechanisms should be implemented between …
It’s a secret between us”
Child disclosure is a complex process for care-givers, health-care workers and the children themselves. Care-givers may require additional psycho-social support to manage disclosure. Involving multiple care-givers in the care of HIV positive children could offer additional support for disclosure
Slipping through the cracks
Advanced HIV causes substantial mortality in sub-Saharan Africa despite widespread antiretroviral therapy coverage. This paper explores pathways of care amongst hospitalised patients with advanced HIV in rural Kenya and urban Democratic Republic of the Congo, with a view to understanding their care-seeking trajectories and poor health outcomes. Thirty in-depth interviews were conducted with hospitalised patients with advanced HIV who had previous…
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