HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: Geographical perspectives

Aase, Asbjørn; Agyei‐Mensah, Samuel

doi:10.1080/00291950510020484

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“…Earlier findings have been published in a previous special issue of this journal in 2005 (Vol. 59, Issue 1) (see also Aase & Agyei-Mensah 2005;Agyei-Mensah 2006;Awumbila 2006;Yankson 2007;Lund & Agyei-Mensah 2008;Owusu 2008).…”

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confidence: 95%

New faces of poverty in Ghana

Lund¹,

Agyei‐Mensah²,

Jørgensen³

2008

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography

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New faces of poverty in Ghana

Lund¹,

Agyei‐Mensah²,

Jørgensen³

2008

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“…Socio-cultural and other structural differences have been identified to explain variations in HIV prevalence in other parts of Africa (Craddock 2000;Kirumira & Kwiringira 2003;Aase & Agyei-Mensah 2005;Mayer 2005). An analysis of the spatial spread and impact of HIV/AIDS has revealed that specific geographical spaces and social relationships provide a theoretical explanation of HIV risk at the local level (Aase & Agyei-Mensah 2005;Mayer 2005). This suggests that HIV risk is mediated by a complex interplay of the biological and social structural realities of a particular place.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…This calls for an understanding of the social contexts in which sex and risky sexual practices are defined, and how the changing medical breakthroughs related to HIV/AIDS may affect risk-filled sexual practices and risk management. Recent evidence shows that structural arrangements may explain the geographical pattern of HIV/AIDS spread in Africa (Aase & Agyei-Mensah 2005;Mayer 2005).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As the epidemic is rapidly shifting to rural areas, coupled with the recent introduction of antiretroviral medication in the country, it is important to examine the changing dynamics in local conceptions of HIV risk. Furthermore, studies of the social geography of HIV/AIDS in Africa have mostly focused on the larger (macro) geographical entities (Craddock 2000;Aase & Agyei-Mensah 2005;Mayer 2005). We recognize that these studies offer compelling arguments about HIV/AIDS and associated risk factors at the macro (large places) level.…”

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Social geography of risk: The role of time, place and antiretroviral therapy in conceptions about the sexual risk of HIV in Kahe, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Ezekiel¹,

Talle²,

Mnyika³

et al. 2010

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“…The geographic perspective on the AIDS pandemic integrates knowledge from diverse academic disciplines into spatio-temporal aspects that characterize the disease pattern and trends (Kalipeni et al 2004;Aase 2005). Recently reported results have brought fresh insights into our space-time understanding of this epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.…”

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The gendered reconfiguration of low-income urban household space in response to AIDS: Perspectives from Botswana

Gwebu¹

2007

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The study focused on three main actors within low-income urban households in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. These were primary care givers, persons living with AIDS (PLWA) and AIDS orphans. The survey investigated the extent to which the traditional family system was coping with provisioning for its PLWA and AIDS orphans, the level to which the main actors reorganize household space in response to evolving demands, to cater for PLWA and AIDS needs, and the degree to which such spatial reorganization resonates with the gendered utilization of household space. Although the methodology of this case study was mainly participatory, it also relied on documented literature from archival sources and the Internet for its conceptual, theoretical and statistical information. The results suggest that the traditional family system is failing to cope with care provision for the PLWA and AIDS-orphaned children and that adjustments to their increasing presence within the households influence the gendered reconfiguring of household space. The traditional gendered utilization of space is thus being constantly negotiated in response to the requirements of HIV patients and those of HIV/AIDS-orphaned children. The proliferating female HIV/AIDS patient care giving and orphan children guardianship appear to be threatening the central and pivotal position of the father figure within the patriarchal household setting.

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HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: Geographical perspectives

Cited by 7 publications

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New faces of poverty in Ghana

New faces of poverty in Ghana

Social geography of risk: The role of time, place and antiretroviral therapy in conceptions about the sexual risk of HIV in Kahe, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

The gendered reconfiguration of low-income urban household space in response to AIDS: Perspectives from Botswana

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