Ambiguities of 'Culture' and the Antiretroviral Rollout in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3664073 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam Ashforth (Institute for Advanced Study), Nicoli Nattra (0000-0002-8422-5631, University of Cape Town) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 285-303 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0253-3952 • E-ISSN: 1940-7874 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02533950508628716 |
| OpenAlex | W2008261306 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper reflects on two contrasting cultural strategies for supporting the rollout of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART): The Treatment Action Campaign's Treatment Literacy Programme which seeks to educate people into a conventional scientific understanding of HIV disease and treatment; and a Department of Health Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) video which harnesses putative ‘indigenous knowledge’ relating to illness and healing. It points out that the latter strategy risks connecting with fears regarding the ‘African science’ of witchcraft. This can serve to confuse, rather than clarify, ambiguities concerning the notion of ‘cure’. Science education is challenging, but has the potential to empower patients to manage their illness effectively
Antiretroviral therapy · Antiretroviral treatment · Family medicine · Indigenous · Literacy · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine
If It’s Not Working, Why Would They Be Testing It?”
Gender and leadership for health literacy to combat the epidemic rise of noncommunicable diseases
Rural mothers' beliefs and practices about diagnosis, treatment, and management of children health problems
Dismissals for Social Media Hate Speech in South Africa
Beautifully dangerous or dangerously beautiful
They (ARVs) are my life, without them I’m nothing”—experiences of patients attending a HIV/Aids clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa
‘My biggest fear was that people would reject me once they knew my status…’
Aids, religious enthusiasm and spiritual insecurity in Africa
Cultural obstacles to the rollout of antiretrovirals
Harmonizing religion and health
Narratives of HIV disclosure and masculinity in a South African village
Older Female Caregivers and HIV/Aids-Related Secondary Stigma in Rural South Africa
They are looking just the same
Why do People Disclose their HIV Status? Qualitative Evidence from a Group of Activist Women in Khayelitsha
The Quest for Healing in South Africa's Age of Aids
Negotiations of Blame and Care among HIV-positive Mothers and Daughters in South Africa's Eastern Cape
HIV in (and out of) the clinic
Treatment Literacy, Therapeutic Efficacy, and Antiretroviral Drugs
Body and mind in Zulu medicine
Reaction to conquest
Zulu Thought-Patterns and Symbolism
Magical Interpretations, Material Realities
Understanding and Addressing Aids-Related Stigma
The African Bantu traditional practice of medicine
The Healer-Prophet in Afro-Christian Churches
Missing Each Other
A Gift without Shortcomings
HIV Illness Meanings and Collaborative Healing Strategies in South Africa
Muthi, Medicine and Witchcraft
Reflections on Spiritual Insecurity in a Modern African City (Soweto)
Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa
From "Rights" to "Ritual
Purity, pollution and the invisible snake in Southern Africa
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |