Promoting Abstinence Being Faithful And Condom Use With Young Africans

Author : Mary Louisa Plummer
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739168452
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promoting Abstinence, Being Faithful, and Condom Use with Young Africans written by Mary Louisa Plummer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promotion of the low risk “ABC” behaviors—Abstinence, Being faithful, and Condom use—has had only limited success in Africa. This book draws on a large qualitative study affiliated with an adolescent intervention trial to examine how ABC promotion can be improved. It evaluates the MEMA kwa Vijana sexual health program, which was implemented in 62 primary schools and 18 health facilities in rural Tanzania, scrutinizing its teacher-led curriculum, peer education, youth-friendly health services, youth condom distribution, and community mobilization components. The book examines how implementing such a low-cost, large-scale program involved many compromises, including those between national policies and international “best practice” recommendations, between the most desirable intervention design and one that was affordable and sustainable at a large scale, between optimal teaching methods and real-world teaching capacity, between ideal curriculum content and what was acceptable to the local community, and between adults’ values and youths’ realities. The program’s impact is evaluated by triangulating findings from three person-years of participant observation, in-depth interviews, survey interviews, and biomedical tests. The book also provides in-depth case studies to examine the motivations and strategies of extraordinary young people who practiced ABC behaviors. It outlines broad principles for ABC promotion, including: acknowledging existing youth sexual relationships; promoting each low risk behavior in complexity and depth; working with preexisting, culturally compelling motivations; and intervening at individual, interpersonal, community, and structural levels. Many recommendations for the promotion of specific ABC behaviors are discussed, such as reducing pressures and incentives for girls to have sex; targeting male risk-perception and self-preservation; promoting alternative forms of masculinity than sexual conquest; strengthening premarital and marital relationships; tailoring fidelity programs for hidden couples, couples planning to marry, and monogamous and polygynous married partners; and addressing pleasure, trust, pregnancy prevention, and fertility protection in condom promotion. The book concludes with additional recommendations specific to school programs, and a review of promising complementary interventions for out-of-school youth, women, men, couples, and parents.

Author : Mary Louisa Plummer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789987082476
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promoting Abstinence, Being Faithful, and Condom Use with Young Africans written by Mary Louisa Plummer and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Louisa Plummer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739168444
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promoting Abstinence, Being Faithful, and Condom Use with Young Africans written by Mary Louisa Plummer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promotion of the low risk "ABC" behaviors--Abstinence, Being faithful, and Condom use--has had only limited success in Africa. This book draws on a large qualitative study affiliated with an adolescent intervention trial to examine how ABC promotion can be improved. It evaluates the MEMA kwa Vijana sexual health program, which was implemented in 62 primary schools and 18 health facilities in rural Tanzania, scrutinizing its teacher-led curriculum, peer education, youth-friendly health services, youth condom distribution, and community mobilization components. The book examines how implementing such a low-cost, large-scale program involved many compromises, including those between national policies and international "best practice" recommendations, between the most desirable intervention design and one that was affordable and sustainable at a large scale, between optimal teaching methods and real-world teaching capacity, between ideal curriculum content and what was acceptable to the local community, and between adults' values and youths' realities. The program's impact is evaluated by triangulating findings from three person-years of participant observation, in-depth interviews, survey interviews, and biomedical tests. The book also provides in-depth case studies to examine the motivations and strategies of extraordinary young people who practiced ABC behaviors. It outlines broad principles for ABC promotion, including: acknowledging existing youth sexual relationships; promoting each low risk behavior in complexity and depth; working with preexisting, culturally compelling motivations; and intervening at individual, interpersonal, community, and structural levels. Many recommendations for the promotion of specific ABC behaviors are discussed, such as reducing pressures and incentives for girls to have sex; targeting male risk-perception and self-preservation; promoting alternative forms of masculinity than sexual conquest; strengthening premarital and marital relationships; tailoring fidelity programs for hidden couples, couples planning to marry, and monogamous and polygynous married partners; and addressing pleasure, trust, pregnancy prevention, and fertility protection in condom promotion. The book concludes with additional recommendations specific to school programs, and a review of promising complementary interventions for out-of-school youth, women, men, couples, and parents.

Author : Jenny Hsu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Does Education Encourage the ABCs: Abstain, be Faithful and Condomize? written by Jenny Hsu and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV/AIDS infections continue to increase, especially among youth in sub-Saharan Africa. South Africa's national HIV/AIDS prevention strategy targets youth to encourage behavior change, particularly through the school system. This motivates the question of this analysis: "Does education affect risky sexual behavior among youth?" The Cape Area Panel Study surveyed 4800 Cape Town youth ages 14-22 from 2002-2006 and included questions regarding their sexual behavior and attitudes. Risky sexual behavior is measured through condom usage, number of sexual partners and age of first sexual intercourse. This study finds education is only significant in increasing age of first sex and promoting condom usage, although by very small magnitudes. Education had no effect on the number of sexual partners. Magisterial districts and being African were found to be statistically significant in behavior change in condom usage and have large magnitudes. Given these results, the South African government can consider the importance of targeting HIV/AIDS prevention information to specific districts and population groups.

Author : Christine Cynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Super Girl written by Christine Cynn and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Super Girl [Super Go]" campaign was first implemented in Côte d'Ivoire in 2009 with funding from the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and USAID. The campaign urges PEPFAR's preferred solution to the prevention of HIV: the ABCső, or abstinence, being faithful, and condom usage. In 2004, George W. Bush's proposed PEPFAR legislation was signed into law, with a goal that 20% of total funding be allocated for prevention in targeted countries including Côte d'Ivoire. In 2006, the legislation specified one-third of all prevention funding be spent on abstinence-until-marriage programs. Between 2004 to 2013, PEPFAR directed $1.4 billion of funding in sub-Saharan Africa on programming promoting abstinence until marriage. Even after 2008, when stipulations requiring focus on AB rather than C of the ABCs were loosened, PEPFAR continued to channel millions to abstinence campaigns. My paper will center on "Super Girl" TV spots and a photo novella that advise girls and young women to instigate necessary changes in their sexual behavior and to forge companionate heterosexual relationships in the name of a future, a "Life" that is "built together." This future is figured as monogamous, modern, and "empowered,"ő the alternative as shameful and risky threat to individual and communal security and health. Existing scholarship has critiqued HIV prevention approaches focusing on individual self-discipline. Here, I shift to analyze how the "Super Girl" campaign dovetails with ongoing political and economic crises in Côte d'Ivoire. During a period of intense contentions over voting rights and presidential candidacy in the country, the "Super Girl" media reinforces exclusionary conceptions of reproductive legitimacy as central to life, health, future, and belonging.

Author : Stephen Bell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317549449
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monitoring and Evaluation in Health and Social Development written by Stephen Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New approaches are needed to monitor and evaluate health and social development. Existing strategies tend to require expensive, time-consuming analytical procedures. The growing emphasis on results-based programming has resulted in evaluation being conducted in order to demonstrate accountability and success, rather than how change takes place, what works and why. The tendency to monitor and evaluate using log frames and their variants closes policy makers’ and practitioners’ eyes to the sometimes unanticipated means by which change takes place. Two recent developments hold the potential to transcend these difficulties and to lead to important changes in the way in which the effects of health and social development programming are understood. First, there is growing interest in ways of monitoring programmes and assessing impact that are more grounded in the realities of practice than many of the ‘results-based’ methods currently utilised. Second, there are calls for the greater use of interpretive and ethnographic methods in programme design, monitoring and evaluation. Responding to these concerns, this book illustrates the potential of interpretative methods to aid understanding and make a difference in real people’s lives. Through a focus on individual and community perspectives, and locally-grounded explanations, the methods explored in this book offer a potentially richer way of assessing the relationships between intent, action and change in health and social development in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.

Author : Nigel Rapport
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131766082X
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts written by Nigel Rapport and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social and Cultural Anthropology: the Key Concepts is an easy to use A-Z guide to the central concepts that students are likely to encounter in this field. Now fully updated, this third edition includes entries on: Material Culture Environment Human Rights Hybridity Alterity Cosmopolitanism Ethnography Applied Anthropology Gender Cybernetics With full cross-referencing and revised further reading to point students towards the latest writings in Social and Cultural Anthropology, this is a superb reference resource for anyone studying or teaching in this area.

Author : Paul Makocho
Publisher : diplom.de
ISBN 13 : 3954897121
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Developing Effective Policies for HIV/AIDS Education practice in Sub Saharan Africa: The Case of Urban Schools of Malawi: A synergy of pupils needs, policies and practice written by Paul Makocho and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV/AIDS has been named the Sub Saharan disease. In countries that have achieved significant declines in HIV prevalence, young people have registered the biggest behavioural changes. It means they hold the keys not only to our understanding of the epidemic, but more importantly, to the efforts required to stem the tide of infections. However, the majority of young people are ignorant of how to prevent transmission, have low compliance to condom use, which is in some cases accentuated by misconceptions about HIV/AIDS transmission and have insufficient knowledge regarding transmission and avoidance behaviours. As such, consensus on feasible preventive interventions target young people, particularly those in schools. It is on this premise that the book unlocks the key pillars in effective HIV/AIDS education policies and practices.The study has drawn upon the experiences of selected Urban Schools in Malawi to explore the needs of young people in classroom, the extent to which the classroom practices respond to the needs, and the factors influencing these using questionnaires, interviews, lesson observations, and document analysis. Malawi typically represents most Sub Saharan African countries in terms of challenges faced by education systems. Given the similar cultural settings of the people of Sub Saharan Africa, the findings and recommendations of the study generalises to the education systems of Sub Saharan Africa to a greater extent. The book shows the need for open discussion climates on HIV/AIDS issues despite a conservative cultural and religious adult world that is not open. It has also identified a need for explicit and accurate knowledge on HIV/AIDS issues, opportunities to acquire behavioural skills for HIV prevention, and involvement of external speakers in classroom HIV/AIDS education.Current classroom practice does not address the pupils‘ needs adequately. Factors influencing this can be linked to lack of policies responsive to culture and religion, ineffective and inadequate teaching policy guidelines, and lack of a policy prioritising HIV/AIDS education. The findings suggest that in future, effective HIV/AIDS Education needs to be informed by the pupils’ needs. To address these needs, support from the wider society and related policies, coupled with appropriate management and classroom practice will be required. The book is therefore an indispensable tool for education systems in Sub Saharan Africa. It provides an effective model for [...]

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309090180
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preventing and Mitigating AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-03-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to affect all facets of life throughout the subcontinent. Deaths related to AIDS have driven down the life expectancy rate of residents in Zambia, Kenya, and Uganda with far-reaching implications. This book details the current state of the AIDS epidemic in Africa and what is known about the behaviors that contribute to the transmission of the HIV infection. It lays out what research is needed and what is necessary to design more effective prevention programs.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: