AIDS in Uganda: the human-rights dimension

Cohen, Jonathan; Schleifer, Rebecca; Tate, Tony

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(05)66716-5

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“…Others argue that political structures, rather than the specific content of the HIV prevention message, were responsible for its success (e.g., Parkhurst and Lush 2004). Still others argue that abstinence messages are not fully responsible for the decline and suggest that such campaigns may even distort life-saving prevention information and exclude certain people (such as victims of sexual violence) from prevention efforts (e.g., Cohen et al 2005).…”

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confidence: 99%

Defining HIV Risk and Determining Responsibility in Postsocialist Poland

Owczarzak

2009

Med Anthropol Q

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Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research on HIV prevention programs in Poland, I explore the consequences of the shift from models of HIV prevention that emphasize “risk groups” and AIDS blame, to models that focus on “risky behaviors” and universal risk. The centrality of choice making and individual risk management in these models suggests objective risk assessment free from moralizing arguments. The Polish national prevention strategy shifted to focus on choice making, address all risk groups, and include concrete prevention strategies. This shift created a backlash that resulted in the reassertion of moral arguments about risk and risk groups that positioned those most vulnerable to HIV outside the purview of prevention efforts. AIDS organizations working with marginalized, “morally problematic” populations used the label “at risk” to legitimize claims to resources. They enacted a model of risk reduction in which the relevant actor is the individual buffeted by social forces, and behavior change, and therefore HIV risk reduction, is a long process because of myriad forms of vulnerability clients face. Despite efforts to reconceptualize risk, organizations positioned the individual as the locus of HIV prevention interventions, rather than attempting to address the social context that shapes risk.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Defining HIV Risk and Determining Responsibility in Postsocialist Poland

Owczarzak

2009

Med Anthropol Q

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“…At one of the rallies in Uganda, participants were told that 'using a condom with an infected person is like using a parachute which only opens 75% of the time meaning the a condom has pores that can allow in HIV and its use should therefore be discouraged) (Cohen, 2005). The same observation was noted by (Slattery, 2002).…”

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confidence: 91%

Knowledge, Attitude and Beliefs of the Patients about Condom use as Seen in Mulago Referral Hospital, Uganda, between 2008-2011

Ojiambo

Othieno

Okwi

2017

Journal of Social Sciences

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“…Of course, no country can remain on high alert indefinitely, and without constant reinforcement the determination to avoid premarital and extramarital sex probably erodes with time. Yet journalists, scientists, and activists tend to blame insufficient condom use and/or availability, US government support for abstinence during the Bush presidency, or not enough money for ARVs as the cause of Uganda's fall from the global model for AIDS prevention (Cohen, Schleifer, and Tate 2005;Kinsman 2010;York 2011). Few analysts or commentators have pointed to growing trends in multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships, changes in Uganda's AIDS prevention policy, or behavioral disinhibition from availability of ARVs as possible causes.…”

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confidence: 99%