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Sex, disease and stigma in South Africa: historical perspectives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Peter Delius Clive GlaserThis paper attempts to analyse historically why stigma and denial around HIV/AIDS is so powerful in South Africa, so powerful that ailing family members can be shunned and evicted. For many observers, the answer lies simply in its being a... -
Breaching cultural silence: enhancing resilience among Ugandan orphans
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Marguerite Daniel Hellen Malinga Apila Rune Bjørgo Gro Therese LieCultural silence is frequently the outcome of deep-seated taboos regarding adults talking to children about sex and death. This paper examines the impact of cultural silence on the resilience of children orphaned by AIDS in Uganda. Cultural silence is often... -
Just jokes! Icebreakers, innuendo, teasing and talking: The role of humour in HIV/AIDS peer education among university students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Silvie Cooper --- Department of Sociology, South Africa David Dickinson --- Department of Sociology, South AfricaPeer conversation provides an important platform for people to explore and disseminate sexual health knowledge. Humour forms part of conversations held between peers including those where sexual health and sexual decisions are discussed. The central argument of this article links... -
Ethics and the law relating to post-birth rituals
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: D Knapp van Bogaert --- Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, Faculty of Health, GA Ogunbanjo --- Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Faculty of Health Sciences,Placental rituals and other birth-by rituals are common in various societies. They often include culturally determined behavioural sequences which operate as anxiety-releasing mechanisms. They also serve to offer a spiritual means of “control” over the future health and welfare of... -
Navigating taboos: A Gricean examination of communicating men’s reproductive health challenges in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Melvin Ouma --- Rhodes University, South AfricaEffective communication between doctors and patients is a crucial aspect of medicine. This article uses Grice’s cooperative principles as a framework to explore doctor-patient communication in a male reproductive health clinic. This qualitative study was done in Kenya at a...