C J Colvin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 21355 |
|---|---|
| NOME | C J Colvin |
| PRENOMES | C J |
| SOBRENOME | Colvin |
| ASSINATURA | COLVIN C J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8930-7863 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 61 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 167 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
‘Accept the fact that we get older’
Pregnancy rates among adolescents and young people in South Africa remain high despite the widespread availability of sexual and reproductive health information and contraception being free of charge. Knowledge gaps, misconceptions, and insufficient attention to youth voices are critical barriers to informed decision-making. Support for adolescents and young people is often negatively framed, focusing on sexual abstinence before marriage. This pa…
Peer support groups as a participatory development principle
This paper reimagines peer support groups by centring a community’s worldviews. We engage with Iliso Lamakhosikazi, a women’s peer support group in South Africa, through an eight-week qualitative study embedded within nearly a decade of collaborative research. This study, using participatory observations, interviews, and focus groups, reveals how Iliso Lamakhosikazi reimagines peer support groups in terms of sociality, focus, and operational stru…
Applying GRADE-Cerqual to Interpretive Review Findings
GRADE-CERQual (Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) was developed to support the use of evidence from qualitative reviews within policy- and decision-making. To date, the approach has been applied predominantly to aggregative synthesis methodologies and descriptive review findings. GRADE-CERQual guidance recommends the approach be tested on more diverse review methodologies and outputs to support its evolution. This pa…
Traditional and biomedical health practices of adolescent boys and young men living with perinatally-acquired HIV in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa
Men are less vulnerable to HIV acquisition than women, but have poorer HIV-related health outcomes. They access HIV services less, and are more likely to die on antiretroviral therapy. The adolescent epidemic presents further challenges, and AIDS-related illness is the leading cause of death among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. We explored the health practices of adolescent boys and young men (aged 13-22) living with perinatally-acquired HIV …
Moving on in uncertain times
Using health information for community activism
The access to, use, and exchange of health information is crucial when strengthening public health services and improving access to care. However, many health system stakeholders, including community groups are perpetually excluded from accessing and using health information. This is problematic as community groups, themselves end-users of care, are well-positioned to keep the health system accountable, provide feedback on the quality of services…
Cyclical Engagement in HIV Care
Contraceptive trajectories postpartum
Understanding global health policy engagements with qualitative research
Empowerment in pregnancy
Blood and Blood
Adolescents living with perinatally acquired HIV are among the first generation in South Africa to grow up with anti-retroviral therapy and democratic freedoms. In this article, we explore the biosocial lives of adolescent boys and young men living with HIV in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. We conducted qualitative research with 36 adolescent boys and young men in 2016-2018, including life history narratives, semi-structured interview…
Barriers to care
South Africa is burdened by twin epidemics of HIV and tuberculosis (TB) in which men are less likely than their female counterparts to engage with prevention, treatment and care. In some Cape Flats communities in Cape Town, South Africa, the challenge to men is compounded by high levels of gang violence. This study investigates the role of gang violence as a barrier to men's entry and retention in the HIV/TB care cascade. Data for this study drew…
Embodiment, agency, unmet need
Globally, high rates of unintended pregnancy occur despite widespread distribution of modern contraceptive methods, reflecting the complexity of individual contraceptive use. The concept of unmet need provides a framework for addressing the gap between women's desire to prevent pregnancy and the ability of health services to meet women's contraceptive needs. Through in-depth interviews in Khayelitsha, South Africa, we examine 14 young women's exp…
Organisational Culture and Mask-Wearing Practices for Tuberculosis Infection Prevention and Control among Health Care Workers in Primary Care Facilities in the Western Cape, South Africa
Background : Although many healthcare workers (HCWs) are aware of the protective role that mask-wearing has in reducing transmission of tuberculosis (TB) and other airborne diseases, studies on infection prevention and control (IPC) for TB in South Africa indicate that mask-wearing is often poorly implemented. Mask-wearing practices are influenced by aspects of the environment and organisational culture within which HCWs work. Methods : We draw o…
Patient Transfers and Their Impact on Gaps in Clinical Care
Always interested, always in motion
In this issue of Critical Public Health, we publish a paper from Savona et al. (2021) that documents some of the ways government and commercial actors in the UK have mobilized the discourse of ‘com
If you are found taking medicine, you will be called names and considered less of a man
This paper explores how HIV-positive abakhwetha (young male initiates) undergoing ulwaluko (traditional Xhosa initiation and circumcision) engage with HIV-related biomedical care and treatment. Health-focused life history narratives (n = 36), semi-structured interviews (n = 32) and analysis of health facility files (n = 41) with adolescent boys and young men (ages 13–24) living with HIV, and semi-structured interviews with traditional and biomedi…
Fostering a healthy public for men and HIV
This paper examines the recently formed Movement for Change and Social Justice (MCSJ) in the township of Gugulethu, in Cape Town, South Africa. MCSJ is a health and social justice movement that has an unusual trajectory—guided by the political principles and strategies of South Africa AIDS activism, inspired but also frustrated by the contemporary progressive public health activism, and catalysed by a university research partnership at the Univer…
It has become everybody’s business and nobody’s business’
South Africa is increasingly offering screening, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB), and especially drug-resistant TB, at the primary care level. Nosocomial transmission of TB within primary health facilities is a growing concern in South Africa, and globally. We explore here how TB infection prevention and control (IPC) policies, historically focused on hospitals, are being implemented within primary care facilities. We spoke to 15 pol…
Building an implementation science of activism
In this issue of Critical Public Health, we publish a paper from Bodini et al. (2020) reflecting on some of the methodological challenges of conducting research on ‘activism in action’. The paper’s
Applying GRADE-Cerqual to qualitative evidence synthesis findings
The GRADE-CERQual ('Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research') approach provides guidance for assessing how much confidence to place in findings from systematic reviews of qualitative research (or qualitative evidence syntheses). The approach has been developed to support the use of findings from qualitative evidence syntheses in decision-making, including guideline development and policy formulation. Confidence in the evid…
What will it really take to end the HIV epidemic
International audience
Experiences of HIV-positive postpartum women and health workers involved with community-based antiretroviral therapy adherence clubs in Cape Town, South Africa
Number NCT02417675 clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/record/NCT02417675 (retrospective reg.)
The problem or the solution? Early fertility and parenthood in the transition to adulthood in Khayelitsha, South Africa
In South Africa, early fertility and teenage pregnancy have become a central focus of both political and public health concern. In this article, we explore the ways that young men and women have used their fertility and performance of parenthood to navigate the transition from childhood to adulthood. For these young people, the persistent inequities related to income poverty, inadequate education, lack of employment opportunities and a high burde…
Tuberculosis patients and resilience
The promises and limitations of gender-transformative health programming with men
Since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, researchers and practitioners have engaged in a series of efforts to shift health programming with men from being gender-neutral to being more gender-sensitive and gender-transformative. Efforts in this latter category have been increasingly utilised, particularly in the last decade, and attempt to transform gender relations to be more equitable in the name of improved health …
Men's Perceptions of Women's Rights and Changing Gender Relations in South Africa
Emerging out of increased attention to gender equality within violence and HIV prevention efforts in South African society has been an intensified focus on masculinities. Garnering a deeper understanding of how men respond to shifting gender relations and rights on the ground is of urgent importance, particularly since social constructions of gender are implicated in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. As social scientists collaborating on a rights-based HIV …
Intimate partner violence among rural South African men
Nearly one-third of South African men report enacting intimate partner violence. Beyond the direct health consequences for women, intimate partner violence is also linked to varied risk behaviours among men who enact it, including alcohol abuse, risky sex, and poor healthcare uptake. Little is known about how to reduce violence perpetration among men. We conducted retrospective, in-depth interviews with men (n = 53) who participated in a rural So…
Ambivalent Narrations
Anthropologies In and Of Evidence Making In Global Health Research and Policy
Anthropologists are not generally known for being optimistic about the state and status of their discipline’s contribution to health research, policy, and practice. Contemporary debates around the
Self-management of medical abortion
Medical abortion is a method of pregnancy termination that by its nature enables more active involvement of women in the process of managing, and sometimes even administering the medications for, their abortions. This qualitative evidence synthesis reviewed the global evidence on experiences with, preferences for, and concerns about greater self-management of medical abortion with lesser health professional involvement. We focused on qualitative …
Purity and Planning
‘Transitional justice’ and ‘development’ largely have unfolded in the contemporary world as parallel sociopolitical projects, with little apparent intersection or cross-fertilization. The discourses and practices that frame these two projects appear to be quite different – in their scale, their tactics and strategies and their value systems. Yet, it would be surprising if this clean division of labour in the efforts to remake (certain parts of) t…
Extension agents or agents of change
Global public health discourse and practice around community health workers (CHWs) often invoke two distinct ideal types: the CHW as an "extension agent" of biomedical health services, bringing health services into community and household settings, and the CHW as a progressive "agent of change," working with communities to mobilize socially and politically around health inequities and identify and tackle the social determinants of health. In this…
Contraceptive trajectories postpartum
Social Contexts and Building Social Capital for Collective Action
Social capital is increasingly conceptualised in academic and policy literature as a panacea for a range of health and development issues, particularly in the context of HIV. In this paper, we conceptualise social capital as an umbrella concept capturing processes including networks, norms, trust and relationships that open up opportunities for participation and collective action that allow communities to address issues of common concern. We spec…
Mistaking Africa
Understanding global health policy engagements with qualitative research
The problem or the solution? Early fertility and parenthood in the transition to adulthood in Khayelitsha, South Africa
In South Africa, early fertility and teenage pregnancy have become a central focus of both political and public health concern. In this article, we explore the ways that young men and women have used their fertility and performance of parenthood to navigate the transition from childhood to adulthood. For these young people, the persistent inequities related to income poverty, inadequate education, lack of employment opportunities and a high burde…
South African Medical Anthropology in the Wake of HIV
Lost in Translation
Despite efforts to use culturally appropriate, understandable terms for sexual behavior in HIV prevention trials, the way in which participants interpret questions is underinvestigated and not well understood. We present findings from qualitative interviews with 88 women in South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe who had previously participated in an HIV prevention trial. Findings suggested that participants may have misinterpreted questions pertainin…
Conceptualizations of Heterosexual Anal Sex and HIV Risk in Five East African Communities
Heterosexual anal sex is underresearched and little understood, particularly in the African context. Existing prevalence data indicate that heterosexual anal sex is a widespread practice, yet little is known about the way in which it is conceptualized and understood. Describing findings from qualitative research conducted in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, we shed light on conceptualizations of heterosexual anal sex and its relation to human immunod…
Civil society and reconciliation in Southern Africa
This article presents some of the key findings of the Southern African Reconciliation Project (SARP). The SARP was a collaborative research project involving five Southern African NGOs in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It examined how the concept of reconciliation was understood in political and community contexts in Southern Africa and investigated the ways in which national government policies and civil-society partici…
The Cape Town boyfriend and the Joburg boyfriend
In South Africa, young people's "multiple" or "concurrent" partnerships have been increasingly prominent in public health discourses - as drivers of HIV transmission. Multiple partnerships are typically framed in moralising, negative terms and depicted primarily as male-driven, within a broader framework of women's vulnerability and use of sex for survival and material gain. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with adolescents and young adults in Kha…
Trafficking trauma
This article begins with a brief look at Khulumani Support Group, a support group for victims of apartheid-era human rights abuses. After apartheid, after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), these victims were still busy producing the stuff of dramatic public and personal memories. Though there were a range of actors involved in soliciting, promoting, circulating and consuming these stories of trauma, it is the global brokers of trauma…
Africans on Stage
Plato’s Dialectical Ethics
Mistaking Africa
Africans on Stage
The Quest for Fruition through Ngoma
Van Dijk, Rijk, Ria Reis, and Marja Spierenburg, eds. 2000. The Quest For Fruition Through Ngoma: The Political Aspects Of Healing In Southern Africa. Oxford: James Currey. 172 pp. $44.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper)
The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
Revolutionary Storytelling without the Revolution
La narration d'histoires sur l'apartheid est devenu un enjeu multidimensionnel dans la nouvelle Republique d'Afrique du Sud. L'A. commente brievement deux ouvrages recents - N. Yousaf, 2001 ; A. O'Brien, 2001 - qui mettent au centre de leur interrogation la synergie entre le politique et la culture expressive en Afrique du Sud. Comment l'action politique sud-africaine peut-elle conserver une conscience revolutionnaire sans la revolution ? Tel est…
Introduction
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Ambivalent Narrations
Trafficking trauma
This article begins with a brief look at Khulumani Support Group, a support group for victims of apartheid-era human rights abuses. After apartheid, after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), these victims were still busy producing the stuff of dramatic public and personal memories. Though there were a range of actors involved in soliciting, promoting, circulating and consuming these stories of trauma, it is the global brokers of trauma…
Violence and National Identity
Civil society and reconciliation in Southern Africa
This article presents some of the key findings of the Southern African Reconciliation Project (SARP). The SARP was a collaborative research project involving five Southern African NGOs in Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It examined how the concept of reconciliation was understood in political and community contexts in Southern Africa and investigated the ways in which national government policies and civil-society partici…
Purity and Planning
‘Transitional justice’ and ‘development’ largely have unfolded in the contemporary world as parallel sociopolitical projects, with little apparent intersection or cross-fertilization. The discourses and practices that frame these two projects appear to be quite different – in their scale, their tactics and strategies and their value systems. Yet, it would be surprising if this clean division of labour in the efforts to remake (certain parts of) t…
Trafficking Trauma
This chapter describes a particular—and perhaps peculiar—cultural form that is only beginning to emerge as a form of intellectual property in need of "protection." It begins to imagine the work of storytelling as part of a larger network of relations of production and exchange. The chapter also describes a "global political economy of traumatic storytelling&s;&s; and explores the narrative work of victims as "traumatic storytelling. Traumatic sto…
Grounding ‘Responsibilisation Talk’
This paper investigates how the South African state has understood the relationship between HIV and poverty and how individuals and community-based organisations have responded to these state interventions. It considers the ways in which liberal forms of government frame people living with AIDS as a particular category of ‘deserving’ and ‘entrepreneurial’ citizens, and then re-frames them through a package of health and welfare interventions. Bas…
HIV/Aids, chronic diseases and globalisation
HIV/AIDS has always been one of the most thoroughly global of diseases. In the era of widely available anti-retroviral therapy (ART), it is also commonly recognised as a chronic disease that can be successfully managed on a long-term basis. This article examines the chronic character of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and highlights some of the changes we might expect to see at the global level as HIV is increasingly normalised as "just another chronic dis…
Think locally, act globally
The recently concluded 64th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organisation (WHO) raised a number of important questions about the future of global health governance. WHO Director, General M
Men's Perceptions of Women's Rights and Changing Gender Relations in South Africa
Emerging out of increased attention to gender equality within violence and HIV prevention efforts in South African society has been an intensified focus on masculinities. Garnering a deeper understanding of how men respond to shifting gender relations and rights on the ground is of urgent importance, particularly since social constructions of gender are implicated in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. As social scientists collaborating on a rights-based HIV …
It’s in our veins’
Khayelitsha, an economically marginal peri-urban settlement in Cape Town, is home to a number of 'flagship' public health interventions aimed at HIV/AIDS and TB. Alongside these high-profile, foreign donor-driven treatment and care programmes are a plethora of NGOs that provide a wide range of community-based carework. Some of these organisations are large, well funded and well connected globally, while others are run by a few unemployed women re…
Social Contexts and Building Social Capital for Collective Action
Social capital is increasingly conceptualised in academic and policy literature as a panacea for a range of health and development issues, particularly in the context of HIV. In this paper, we conceptualise social capital as an umbrella concept capturing processes including networks, norms, trust and relationships that open up opportunities for participation and collective action that allow communities to address issues of common concern. We spec…
Conceptualizations of Heterosexual Anal Sex and HIV Risk in Five East African Communities
Heterosexual anal sex is underresearched and little understood, particularly in the African context. Existing prevalence data indicate that heterosexual anal sex is a widespread practice, yet little is known about the way in which it is conceptualized and understood. Describing findings from qualitative research conducted in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, we shed light on conceptualizations of heterosexual anal sex and its relation to human immunod…
Intimate partner violence among rural South African men
Nearly one-third of South African men report enacting intimate partner violence. Beyond the direct health consequences for women, intimate partner violence is also linked to varied risk behaviours among men who enact it, including alcohol abuse, risky sex, and poor healthcare uptake. Little is known about how to reduce violence perpetration among men. We conducted retrospective, in-depth interviews with men (n = 53) who participated in a rural So…
Using Qualitative Evidence in Decision Making for Health and Social Interventions
Simon Lewin and colleagues present a methodology for increasing transparency and confidence in qualitative research synthesis.
Lessons learned
BACKGROUND: Adherence to traditional notions of masculinity has been identified as an important driver in the perpetuation of numerous health and social problems, including gender-based violence and HIV. With the largest generalized HIV epidemic in the world and high rates of violence against women, the need for gender-transformative work in South Africa is broadly accepted in activist circles and at the national and community level. Because of t…
Condoms, Lubricants and Rectal Cleansing
Sociology (42 obras) · Medicine (37 obras) · Political science (29 obras) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (21 obras) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (18 obras) · Nursing (18 obras) · Psychology (18 obras) · Law (17 obras) · Economic growth (15 obras) · Family medicine (15 obras)