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Churches, mosques, and condoms: understanding successful HIV and AIDS interventions by faith-based organisations

01/02/2011

14 pages long

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There are an estimated 33 million people living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) worldwide. While national education campaigns have been successful in providing a broad platform of awareness of HIV and AIDS, within some countries faith-based organisations (FBOs) have assumed an important role in educating and supporting local communities to reduce HIV transmission. This […]

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Service delivery on the cheap? Community-based workers in development interventions

01/02/2011

17 pages long

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Within current neo-liberal approaches to development, models of community-driven development assume that community-based workers (CBWs) are key actors in improved and accessible service delivery. We argue that use of CBWs is under-theorised and seems to be based largely on untested assumptions about community participation and responsibility. Drawing on case studies on potable-water management and home-based […]

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Why is development work so straight? Heteronormativity in the international development industry

01/02/2011

10 pages long

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Why is development work so straight? Heteronormativity in the international development industry

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International development work has both reinforced and challenged inequalities related to sexuality and gender. The concept of heteronormativity is a promising frame for understanding these dynamics. This article starts with a description of the history of the concept and an exploration of its possible applications. It goes on to consider heteronormativity in development work, in […]

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Fat eggs’: gender and fertility as important factors in HIV/AIDS prevention in Botswana

11/11/2010

9 pages long

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Fat eggs’: gender and fertility as important factors in HIV/AIDS prevention in Botswana

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This article examines the response in Botswana to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and some overlooked but key cultural factors that inhibit effective policy implementation. Specifically, this article highlights the importance of gender and fertility as they intersect with ideas of food, fat and social aspects of health in Botswana culture. Using ethnographic methods to understand the […]

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Widowed Mama-Grannies buffering HIV/AIDS-affected households in a city slum of Kampala, Uganda

01/11/2009

13 pages long

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Widowed Mama-Grannies buffering HIV/AIDS-affected households in a city slum of Kampala, Uganda

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This article explores the experiences, challenges and coping strategies of urban elderly residents in Kasubi-Kawaala, a slum on the margins of Kampala city, Uganda. The city is mainly stereotyped as a space for able-bodied individuals able to hustle, innovatively compete for limited resources, and accrue themselves benefits. It is widely assumed that old age causes […]

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Civil Society and UNITAID: An introduction

13/10/2009

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8 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Access to medicines is a major challenge for people in developing countries. With the right medicines, diseases such as HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria are treatable. Yet for millions of poor people, affordable medicines remain out of reach. UNITAID was established in 2006 as a new public health financing mechanism and a South-North […]

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Probiotics in Tanzania: a multi-partner development project

01/09/2009

11 pages long

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This article critically examines an HIV/AIDS development and research project in Mwanza, Tanzania. A group of women produce a type of probiotic yoghurt that has provided evidence of lowering the incidence of HIV infection. The yoghurt is consumed by the women, their family members, and local citizens living with HIV/AIDS; surplus is sold within the […]

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Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

01/07/2009

10 pages long

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Caring for people with HIV: state policies and their dependence on women’s unpaid work

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This article explores the issue of women providing unpaid care for family members living with HIV in South Africa and Zimbabwe. State policies rely on women providing home-based care, in the context of failing health systems. This has the effect of impoverishing women, and reinforcing gender stereotypes. Recommendations will be given on how to make […]

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Sexual-health communication across and within cultures: the Clown Project, Guatemala

01/06/2009

13 pages long

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The synergies created through the careful application of both organic and symbolic communication demonstrably reach those most vulnerable to the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS. The Clown Project uses labour-intensive face-to-face street theatre and dialogue, participatory workshops, and symbolic communication such as print-based materials. Some lessons learned in selected communities in Guatemala and […]

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Mobile phones and community development: a contact zone between media and citizenship

01/06/2009

13 pages long

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Mobile phones have already been used widely around the world for activism, social and economic development, and new cultural and communicative forms. Despite this widespread use of mobile phones, they remain a relatively un-theorised and un-discussed phenomenon in community and citizen’s media. This paper considers how mobile phones have been taken up by citizens to […]

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