Women at Risk

AIDS in Africa is a gender, development and rights issue involving power and differential access to resources. The risk situations for women in stressed development contexts of war, destabilisation and displacement, and the many contexts of transactional sex, are poorly understood by policy makers and the medical community. The dominant epidemiological paradigm has focused on female 'prostitutes' in a number of African cities. The limitations of this approach are discussed, as are the different contextualised meanings of sexual exchange. The importance of women's experience of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV and their perceptions of risk are stressed, as is the need for non-judgmental services linked to primary and comprehensive health care, and for sensitive, qualitative research. It is argued that all women who engage in unprotected penetrative sex are at risk. Most health promotion messages, however, construct an image of women as prostitutes ('Avoid prostitutes') or seek to mobilise women as carers and educators of families and communities

Environmental health · Poison control · Population · Qualitative research · Sociology · Transactional sex · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues

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  Open Access•Priscilla A Akwara, Nyovani Janet Madise et al.•Journal of Biosocial Science•2003

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• Understanding fatalism in HIV/Aids protection

  Anna Meyer-Weitz•African Journal of AIDS Research•2005

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• Discourses on women's (hetero)sexuality and desire in a South African local context

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• HIV/Aids in eastern and Southern Africa

  Open Access•Anne V Akeroyd•Review of African Political Economy•1994

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• Resisting the binarism of victim and agent

  Open Access•T Shefer•Global Public Health•2015

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• Women who sell sex in a Ugandan trading town

  Open Access•Marjolein Gysels, Robert Pool et al.•Social Science & Medicine•2002

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• Gender dimensions of Aids in Zambia

  R Abrahamsen•Journal of Gender Studies•1997

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• Thank God I Said No to Aids

  Open Access•Gill Seidel•Discourse & Society•1990

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• Women, work and ideology in Nigeria

  Open Access•Renee Pittin, Renée Ilene Pittin•Review of African Political Economy•1991

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• Aids in Uganda as a Gender Issue

  Mere Nakateregga Kisekka•Women & Therapy•1990

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• Is the Asian Family Planning Program Model Suited to Africa

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• Women and Aids

  Open Access•Beth E Schneider, Beth Schneider•Futures•1989

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• The competing discourses of HIV/Aids in sub-Saharan Africa

  Open Access•Gill Seidel•Social Science & Medicine•1993

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• Women and aids in developing countries

  Open Access•Maria De Bruyn•Social Science & Medicine•1992

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• The use of herbal and other agents to enhance sexual experience

  Open Access•Agnes O Runganga, Agnes Runganga et al.•Social Science & Medicine•1992

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• African women and Aids

  Open Access•Priscilla R Ulin•Social Science & Medicine•1992

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• Migrant Labor and Sexually Transmitted Disease

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• Aids

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