Add to ORKGThe fight against AIDS in Africa is often presented as a fight against "cultural barriers" that are seen as promoting the spread of the HIV virus. This attitude is based on a long history of Western prejudices about sexuality in Africa, which focus on its exotic aspects only (polygamy, adultery, wife-exchange, circumcision, dry sex, levirate, sexual pollution, sexual cleansing, various beliefs and taboos, etc.). The article argues that those cultural aspects are a wrong target of AIDS prevention programs because they are not incompatible with a safer behavior, and because their eradication would not ensure the protection of people. To fight against them might alienate the people whose cooperation is necessary if one wants to prevent the spr...
Trends in the incidence of HIV/AIDS infection among women in Sub-Saharan Africa suggest this populat...
Thirty-five years has gone by since the first diagnosis of HIV in Zimbabwe. Causes and reasons for t...
Early in the study of HIV/AIDS, culture was invoked to explain differences in the disease patterns b...
Southern African countries have the highest HIV infection rates in the world. In most of the countri...
Culture plays a significant role in people’s lives in Zambia and in Africa as a whole. Consequently,...
In an attempt to adequately respond to and redress the velocity of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, many count...
Background: The failure to stem HIV in sub-Saharan Africa and the unique epidemiological modes of in...
support Culture plays a vital role in determining the level of health of the individual, the family ...
This article rebuts conventional claims that AIDS in Africa is a microbial problem to be controlled ...
ArticlePoverty, cultural belief and refusal to use condoms are some of the factors that contribute t...
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2015.Although HIV and AIDS has become a common phenomenon in Z...
African governments accepted the reality of HIV-AIDS as a matter of convenience and not out of convi...
This article aims to examine the subtle links that exist between cultural practices and beliefs and ...
This article aims to examine the subtle links that exist between cultural practices and beliefs and ...
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are not foreign to African cultures. Like other nationalities, ...
Trends in the incidence of HIV/AIDS infection among women in Sub-Saharan Africa suggest this populat...
Thirty-five years has gone by since the first diagnosis of HIV in Zimbabwe. Causes and reasons for t...
Early in the study of HIV/AIDS, culture was invoked to explain differences in the disease patterns b...
Southern African countries have the highest HIV infection rates in the world. In most of the countri...
Culture plays a significant role in people’s lives in Zambia and in Africa as a whole. Consequently,...
In an attempt to adequately respond to and redress the velocity of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, many count...
Background: The failure to stem HIV in sub-Saharan Africa and the unique epidemiological modes of in...
support Culture plays a vital role in determining the level of health of the individual, the family ...
This article rebuts conventional claims that AIDS in Africa is a microbial problem to be controlled ...
ArticlePoverty, cultural belief and refusal to use condoms are some of the factors that contribute t...
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2015.Although HIV and AIDS has become a common phenomenon in Z...
African governments accepted the reality of HIV-AIDS as a matter of convenience and not out of convi...
This article aims to examine the subtle links that exist between cultural practices and beliefs and ...
This article aims to examine the subtle links that exist between cultural practices and beliefs and ...
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are not foreign to African cultures. Like other nationalities, ...
Trends in the incidence of HIV/AIDS infection among women in Sub-Saharan Africa suggest this populat...
Thirty-five years has gone by since the first diagnosis of HIV in Zimbabwe. Causes and reasons for t...
Early in the study of HIV/AIDS, culture was invoked to explain differences in the disease patterns b...