Unpaid HIV/AIDS Care in Southern Africa: Forms, Context, and Implications

Akintola, Olagoke

doi:10.1080/13545700802263004

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“…This gender imbalance reflects the ways in which caregiving is as deeply ingrained as a women's activity in rural South Africa as it is in the Global North and other parts of the Global South (Folbre, 1994;Baylies, 2002b;Himmelweit, 2007, Conrad & Doss, 2008Akintola, 2008). 5 Their ages ranged from 22 to 80 years, with 14 carers being youths (i.e.…”

Section: Fieldwork In the South African Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contentious Care: Foster Care Grants and the Caregiver–Orphan Relationship in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa

Hearle¹,

Ruwanpura²

2009

Oxford Development Studies

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It is widely recognized that HIV/AIDS has devastating but also uneven effects on afflicted communities. While much research has rightly focused on the impact of HIV/AIDS on families, communities and countries, less attention has been paid to foster carers' experiences and to the network of care. Based on qualitative fieldwork carried out over a 3-month period in KwaZuluNatal Province, South Africa, this study analyses the experiences of those caring for orphans who receive a state-funded Foster Care Grant. Conversations with caregivers suggest the contentious nature of care; this is worth exploring further, as it can cast light on how such macro-level interventions are shifting what it means to be an orphan at the community level. The main reason for bringing these issues to the fore is to make development interventions better informed and therefore better able to address those factors giving rise to the challenges faced by caregivers.

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Section: Fieldwork In the South African Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contentious Care: Foster Care Grants and the Caregiver–Orphan Relationship in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa

Hearle¹,

Ruwanpura²

2009

Oxford Development Studies

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“…A handful of anthropologists and sociologists have recently gathered information about the lives' of community volunteers upon whose labour so many HIV/AIDS programmes in sub-Saharan Africa depend. 8 The work of these scholars has gone some way towards dispelling the myth of the volunteer spirit by talking with volunteers and recording their discontent: unemployment (or landlessness in rural areas), lack of remuneration, low social status, inability to meet household needs 9 and, in the case of home-based care, being unable to help patients who receive drugs but are not able to afford adequate food. 10 Even with occasional remuneration in kind, training and per diems, these volunteers lack the certainty of remuneration that comes with regular wage payments.…”

Section: The Myth Of the Selfless Volunteermentioning

confidence: 99%

Examining health-care volunteerism in a food- and financially-insecure world

Maes

2010

Bull. World Health Organ.

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“…Children's wellbeing in such contexts thus depends on both immediate family resources and capabilities and extended kin networks. Grandmothers and aunts, in particular, but also grandfathers and uncles, often contribute extensively to children's many needs (Akintola 2004(Akintola , 2008Schatz and Seeley 2015). At the same time young people, perhaps particularly girls, contribute to their households and provide care to older persons (Evans 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%