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Intimate partner violence among HIV positive pregnant women in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Gladys Matseke --- HIV/AIDS/STI and TB (HAST), Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Violeta J Rodriguez --- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, USA Karl Peltzer --- HIV/AIDS/STI and TB (HAST), Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Deborah Jones --- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, USAThe aim of the study was to determine the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) and associated factors among pregnant HIV-infected women in primary health care facilities in Nkangala and Gert Sibande districts, Mpumalanga, South Africa. Participants were 673 women... -
People living with HIV and AIDS in everyday conditions of township life in South Africa: between structural constraint and individual tactics
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Frédéric Le Marcis --- Department of Social Anthropology, University of Victor Segalen, Rehana Ebrahim-Vally --- University of the Witwatersrand,The HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa has negatively transformed the lives of many in townships and rural areas. People living with AIDS (PWAs) are the socially weakened, whose means of survival include migrating, enduring gender violence, and they are thus... -
Making and remaking life under threat: fenceline communities in eMalahleni, Mpumalanga
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Zaakiyah Rabbaney --- University of the Western Cape, South AfricaIn fenceline communities alongside coal extraction operations in South Africa, residents experience extreme environmental, social and economic conditions that can be traced to the country’s extractivist economy and race-based capitalist logic that created informal settlements in abandoned landscapes to which... -
A discursive engagement of evasions in police-suspect interactions in Ibadan, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Temidayo Akinrinlola --- McPherson University, Nigeria Temitope Michael Ajayi --- University of Ibadan, NigeriaThis study reports the discursive appeals embedded in the deployment of evasions in police-suspect interactions (PSIs) in Ibadan. Studies have marked investigating police officers (IPOs) as participants who overtly wield power during interrogation. This study argues that power is not...
