AIDS Stigma, Sexual Moralities and the Policing of Women and Youth in South Africa

Campbell, Catherine; Nair, Yugi; Maimane, Sbongile

doi:10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400285

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“…Elsewhere we have written of the HIVAN team's unsuccessful attempts to engage Entabeni women in discussion about the possibility of challenging male domination in their personal lives (Campbell, Nair and Maimane, 2006). In all our Entabeni research, gender inequalities repeatedly emerged as key drivers of the epidemic, with community members strongly endorsing these findings in research dissemination exercises.…”

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Building contexts that support effective community responses to HIV/AIDS: a South African case study

Campbell

Nair

Maimane

2007

American J of Comm Psychol

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In this paper we discuss our conceptualisation of a 'health-enabling social environment', and some of the strategies we are currently using to build social contexts most likely to support effective HIV/AIDS management in southern Africa. In developing these ideas, we draw on our on-going collaboration with residents of Entabeni, a remote rural community in South Africa where 43% of pregnant women are HIV positive. The aim of this collaboration is to facilitate contextual changes that will enable more effective community-led HIV/AIDS management in an isolated area where people have little or no access to formal health or welfare support, and where HIV/AIDS is heavily stigmatised. We give an account of the three phases of collaboration to date. These include research; the dissemination of findings and community consultation about the way forward; preliminary project activities (skills training for volunteer health workers; partnership building and a youth rally) as a way of illustrating what we believe are six key strategies for facilitating the development of 'HIV-competent' communities: building knowledge and basic skills; creating social spaces for dialogue and critical thinking; promoting a sense of local ownership of the problem and incentives for action; emphasising community strengths and resources; mobilising existing formal and informal local networks; and building partnerships between marginalized communities and more powerful outside actors and agencies, locally, nationally and internationally. We discuss some of the triumphs and trials of this work, concluding with a discussion of the need to set realistic goals when working at the community level in highly conservative patriarchal communities to tackle problems which may be shaped by economic and political processes over which local people have little control.

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Building contexts that support effective community responses to HIV/AIDS: a South African case study

Campbell

Nair

Maimane

2007

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…Research on gender and AIDS stigma in Africa has largely focused on the discrimination experienced by women and its effects on HIV testing, access to care, and social support (Campbell, Nair, and Maimane 2006; Mukasa et al 2001). Such studies are of vital importance but they do not fully illuminate African men’s experiences of stigma or adequately conceptualise how stigma is tied to gender relations.…”

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Masculinity and the persistence of AIDS stigma

Wyrod

2011

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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With the expansion of access to HIV testing and antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa, questions have emerged if stigma remains a useful concept for understanding the effects of AIDS. There is, however, a paucity of research on how HIV-positive Africans-especially African men -experience living with AIDS. This paper addresses this gap and draws on findings from ethnographic fieldwork in 2004 and 2009 with a support group for HIV-positive men in Kampala, Uganda. The paper demonstrates that stigma is central to how men in this context coped with HIV and AIDS, and it provides a conceptual framework that links men's experiences of AIDS stigma to conceptions of masculinity. In so doing, findings highlight both the possibilities and challenges of involving African men more fully in HIV prevention.

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“…This in turn, facilitated the policing of their sexuality. Campbell, Nair, and Maimane (2006) describe a similar phenomenon in South Africa, where the social construction of sexual morality perpetuates the social exclusion and policing of women and young people who challenge traditional patriarchal norms.…”

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‘People insult her as a sexy woman’: sexuality, stigma and vulnerability among widowed and divorced women in Oromiya, Ethiopia

Newton-Levinson

Winskell

Abdela³

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Culture, Health & Sexuality

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Widowed and divorced women, sometimes referred to as 'female heads of household', are one of the most impoverished and marginalised groups in the world. Widowed and divorced women are often overlooked in the literature or are seen primarily as economically or socially marginalised beings; their sexuality is rarely addressed. In an effort to understand the experiences and challenges faced by such women, we conducted and analysed four focus-group discussions, seven in-depth interviews and four interactive activities with 32 widowed and divorced women and with 25 other community members in Oromiya, Ethiopia. Findings indicate that women experienced high levels of community stigma in relation to their sexuality. Participants' fear of community stigma, and the actions they took to avert it, further served to marginalise them within their community and had negative impact on their economic, social and health support systems and, ultimately, on their overall well-being. Future interventions need to acknowledge sexual stigma as a driving force in the many challenges these women face. Further programmatic work is needed to reduce stigma related to widowed and divorced women's sexuality and to decrease their vulnerability to rape.

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AIDS Stigma, Sexual Moralities and the Policing of Women and Youth in South Africa

Cited by 31 publications

References 9 publications

Building contexts that support effective community responses to HIV/AIDS: a South African case study

Building contexts that support effective community responses to HIV/AIDS: a South African case study

Masculinity and the persistence of AIDS stigma

‘People insult her as a sexy woman’: sexuality, stigma and vulnerability among widowed and divorced women in Oromiya, Ethiopia

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