3. Fear and Loathing in Papua New Guinea Sexual Health in a Nation under Siege

Hammar, Lawrence; Butt, Leslie; Evers, R.

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Section: In Treatment: Governmental Discipline or Intimations Of Care?mentioning

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“…Many of them were widowed or divorced and had moved in with parents or siblings, where they often felt the need to demonstrate that they were morally worthy of care. AIDS is associated with immorality, and it is sometimes assumed that an HIV-positive person must have lived in such a way-reckless, licentious, selfish-as to deserve having been infected (Eves 2008;Hammar 2008;Wardlow 2008;Kelly-Hanku et al 2014). In the pre-ART period there were cases of brutal cruelty and abandonment: people dying of AIDS-related illnesses were taken to the bush and abandoned, I was told, or sometimes left outside and tied to trees so they would not run away.…”

Section: In Treatment: Governmental Discipline or Intimations Of Care?mentioning

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“With AIDS I am happier than I have ever been before”

Wardlow

2018

Australian J of Anthropology

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In her 2016 article Sherry Ortner discusses what she calls the rise of ‘dark anthropology’: that is, ethnographic work that analyses situations of domination, dispossession, and violence. She, like Joel Robbins (), posits as a counterpoint the emergence of ‘anthropologies of the good,’ which emphasise care and ethics. In this paper I put these two anthropological projects into generative tension through an analysis of HIV‐positive women's lives in Papua New Guinea. In the first part of the paper I demonstrate the ways in which resource extraction has created vulnerabilities to HIV—in part through the coerced marriages of women to powerful landowners. In the second, I discuss ways in which the antiretroviral era has made possible unexpected forms of kindness towards HIV‐positive women. I end the paper with a discussion of what HIV‐positive women mean when they claim that they are happier now than in their pre‐diagnosis lives.

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Section: In Treatment: Governmental Discipline or Intimations Of Care?mentioning

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“With AIDS I am happier than I have ever been before”

Wardlow

2018

Australian J of Anthropology

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Gendered talk about sex, sexual relationships and HIV among young people in Papua New Guinea

Kelly

Worth

Akuani

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Culture, Health & Sexuality

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This paper presents findings from a qualitative study carried out in three secondary schools in Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Seventy-three Year 12 students took part in eight gender-specific focus group discussions (three female and five male). Irrespective of gender, respondents predominately understood sex as being for the sole purpose of reproduction within marriage. When discussing sex and sexual relationships, young men used explicit language and referred specifically to sexual organs and activities. Young women did not. Less concerned for privacy, young men talked in public spaces and in groups with same-sex peers about sex and sexual expression, whereas young women discussed such matters one-on-one and in private. These gender differences provide useful entry points for developing appropriate sex and HIV education programmes involving young people in PNG.

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Civic Insecurity: Law, Order and HIV in Papua New Guinea

Luker¹,

Dinnen

2010

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Beaten and shunned because she had AIDSA 27-year-old mother of three was beaten up, burned and left to die by her village people near Goroka town because she had AIDS.Joan (not her real name), from Ketarobo village, was picked up by staff from the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research two weeks ago after they were alerted by a friend of the women.The woman was taken to Goroka hospital where she died a week later.Phili Manove, a research officer with the IMR, was among four people who picked up Joan, including the IMR's HIV/AIDS sero-surveillance project coordinator Dr Lawrence Hammar and his wife. She said when Joan was found, she had fungus already growing in her mouth because she had not eaten for some time. Parts of her body were burnt and she had ulcers, obviously from beatings she had received from village men.She was left under a shelter the people had put up near a stream away from the village.'It was obvious that she had not eaten for days. She was extremely skinny and she was deteriorating because she had fungal growth in her mouth. Her house was burnt but she escaped being burnt,' she said.She said the people refused to give a bucket to Dr Hammar and his team when they asked for one to wash Joan before taking her to the hospital. After Joan was brought to the hospital, her father came and told them that Joan must not be brought back to her village.'When we took her to the hospital, the health workers were not helpful. Maybe because they thought that IMR was responsible. I don't know why but her sores were not treated although they gave her an injection. Maybe because she was deteriorating,' she said.The villagers, through Joan's sister, asked later to compensate the IMR staff for caring for Joan, but Dr Hammar's team refused and asked only that Joan be buried in her village. The request was granted and her body will be buried in the village today. Post-Courier Introduction VICkI LukERThis book explores the interaction between PNG's HIV and 'law and order' problems. We hope readers will take from it a richer appreciation of the potentially vicious spirals and virtuous circles that this interaction can create. Ultimately, we advance the cause of 'deep prevention' for these interlinked challenges, and the concept and goal of 'civic security' to embrace them both.Joan's story, reprinted here from Papua New Guinea's largest daily newspaper, begins this collection. She represents one face of PNG's now endemic HIV that is so often described as undergoing 'feminisation'. She died with AIDS and she died in violence and abuse. She thus conjoins aspects of HIV and 'law and order' that this collection treats together. Joan had been a member of her community, a citizen of PNG and metaphorically a citizen of the world. But, if the term 'citizenship' can be used in bo...

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3. Fear and Loathing in Papua New Guinea Sexual Health in a Nation under Siege

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“With AIDS I am happier than I have ever been before”

“With AIDS I am happier than I have ever been before”

Gendered talk about sex, sexual relationships and HIV among young people in Papua New Guinea

Civic Insecurity: Law, Order and HIV in Papua New Guinea

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