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HIV/AIDS Education in Butare-ville Secondary Schools (Rwanda): Analyzing Pedagogic Discourse Using a Bernsteinian Framework
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Wayne Hugo --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Vedaste Nyilimana --- Kigali Institute of Education, RwandaThis article presents three case studies of how HIV/AIDS education is being organized and taught in Rwanda. It analyses what teachers were doing in 2005 through classroom teaching to safeguard young people from HIV/AIDS. A pedagogic framework is introduced and... -
Rape and Trauma: A Case Study of a Journey of Recovery
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Maria Papaikonomou --- University of South Africa,This case study presents the results of a counselling intervention with a rape survivor. The woman was twenty-nine years old at the time of the violation. The objective of this study was to explore the dynamics which the woman engaged... -
Media ownership and news framing: an analysis of HIV/AIDS coverage by Ugandan press
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: James Kiwanuka-Tondo --- Department of Communication, United States KellyF Albada --- Department of Communication, United States Fay Cobb Payton --- Department of Communication, United StatesApplying framing theory, the present research analyzes trends in Ugandan news coverage and the prominent issue frames for HIV/AIDS-related stories. In order to determine the influence of other factors, such as media ownership and journalist origin, nearly 800 articles, from... -
Cardiovascular risk assessment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: DJ Blom --- Division of Lipidology, Department of Medicine, South AfricaCardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of mortality in the Westernised world. Lifestyle changes and drug therapy can reduce cardiovascular risk. Many interventions such as lipid-lowering therapy reduce relative risk to the same extent irrespective of baseline risk, but the... -
Encouraging normative smoking behaviour
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Matilde Tchinda Tsayem --- International Service Management, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Elena Cavagnaro --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Research Group in Service Studies, Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The NetherlandsWhy do people smoke in non-smoking areas? What interventions could be used to make a change in observed smoking behaviour? This research builds on Lindenberg and Steg’s goal-framing theory to identify the motivations of norm-breaching behaviour and to suggest intervention... -
Encouraging normative smoking behaviour
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Matilde Tchinda Tsayem --- International Service Management, The Netherlands Elena Cavagnaro --- Academy of International Hospitality Research, Research Group in Service Studies, The NetherlandsWhy do people smoke in non-smoking areas? What interventions could be used to make a change in observed smoking behaviour? This research builds on Lindenberg and Steg's goal-framing theory to identify the motivations of norm-breaching behaviour and to suggest intervention... -
A simplified approach to estimate the sustainable lifestyle level for retirement planning
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Elze-Mari Roux --- , South Africa Johann de Villiers --- , South AfricaIn this article we offer a simplified version of the alternative retirement planning model we originally proposed (De Villiers & Roux, 2019). Our method focuses on determining the sustainable lifestyle level (SLL) that an individual can currently afford while still... -
Fire as friend or foe: the role of scientists in balancing media coverage of fires in National Parks
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Izak PJ Smit --- , South Africa Marina Joubert --- , South Africa Kyle Smith --- , South Africa Nicola van Wilgen --- , South Africa Tercia Strydom --- , South Africa Johan Baard --- , South Africa Marna Herbst --- , South AfricaFire can destroy infrastructure and livelihoods, and claim lives. Yet, fire is inevitable and plays several vital ecological roles that have shaped ecosystems over millennia. Planned fires also serve human needs. Critical media content analysis of 390 media reports (print,... -
War metaphors as names for medical concepts in Sesotho newspaper HIV and AIDS communication
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Ntšoeu Seepheephe --- National University of Lesotho, LesothoThe study examines the behaviour and the ideological functions of war metaphors that are used in Sesotho newspaper communication on HIV and AIDS. Using the dynamic systems approach towards metaphor, I explore the use of these metaphors in three major...