scholarly journals Abstracts of the Joint Australasian HIV&AIDS and Sexual Health Conferences held 16–20 November 2020 (virtual)

Sexual Health ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. iii
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Health ◽  
Health Conferences ◽  
Hiv Aids

19. Navigating Sexual Health within a Desexualized Body: HIV/AIDS & Disability

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Health ◽  
Hiv Transmission ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sexual Health Education ◽  
And Gender ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Sexual Health Knowledge ◽  
Hiv Aids

  This research explores commonly overlooked intersections of disability and HIV/AIDS, theorizing that institutional desexualization of disabled students in educational settings is correlated with higher rates of HIV transmission later in life. Working primarily within the fields of disability studies, HIV/AIDS studies, and gender studies, this project targets the gap in research on disability and HIV/AIDS, understanding disabled individuals as being at a heightened risk for HIV transmission yet simultaneously being less likely to receive sexual health education than non-disabled peers, as seen in emerging research by Nora Grace (2003; 2004). This research theorizes a relationship between institutional desexualization and HIV transmission later in life. Specifically, this relationship may exist in the following pattern, beginning with early and continued desexualization of disabled individuals leading to social assumptions of universal asexuality, thus potentially causing a lack of sexual health resources and education due to this assumed sexual inactivity. A lack of sexual health resources may influence higher rates of engagement in high-risk sexual activity due to this lack of sexual health knowledge among disabled individuals, which could thus account for higher rates of HIV transmission within disabled populations. In establishing disabled individuals as at heightened risk for HIV and disrupting the desexualization of disability, I provide recommendations for future research and policy pathways in the aim of further exploring the intersections of HIV/AIDS and disability in order to reduce the rates of HIV transmission within disabled population.

scholarly journals Assessing the Impacts of HIV/AIDS Programmes on Sexual Health among the Youths of Obiyebe Community in Ogba/Ebgema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State

2022 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-12
Author(s):  
Udo Orukwowu ◽  
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Boma Iweriso George ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Health ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Frequency Table ◽  
Prevention Programmes ◽  
Rivers State ◽  
Descriptive Survey ◽  
Hiv Aids

This study assessed the impacts of HIV/AIDS programmes on sexual health among youths of Obiyebe community in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGA of Rivers State. The purpose of the study was to identify HIV/AIDS programmes on sexual health, to assess the knowledge of HIV/AIDS programmes on sexual health among the youths and to examine the impacts of HIV/AIDS programmes on sexual health among youths. The study adopted a descriptive survey study design with a sample size of 83 participants which are selected through a simple random sampling technique. A structured questionnaire was used as the instrument for data collection, while a frequency table and simple percentage were used as the instrument for data analysis. The findings of the study revealed that HIV/AIDS programmes on sexual health are; HIV/AIDS testing programmes, HIV/AIDS treatment programmes, HIV/AIDS prevention programmes, and United Nations Programmes on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Another finding of the study showed that sexuality, condoms, sexual anatomy and sex, and adolescence sexual features and puberty are the knowledge of sexual health among the youths that enhance their good sexual health and prevention of HIV/AIDS. Again the study revealed that the impacts of HIV/AIDS programmes on the sexual health of the youths were that their understanding of sexuality is increased, they understand the importance of using condoms if sexually active, there is a reduction in unwanted teenage pregnancies, they are informed of their normal sexual features development, puberty, reproductive anatomy and physiology, they are informed of the option to delay sexual activity until they are ready (matured), and there is a reduction of new HIV/AIDS/ other STI infections. The study made some recommendations and suggestions.

Sexual Health Policies around the World

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-240
Author(s):  
Ravindra Kumar Vemula
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Health ◽  
Prevalence Rate ◽  
Hiv And Aids ◽  
Health Policies ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The World ◽  
Hiv Aids

Policy makers in India have been concerned about the high rates of STDs and the spread of HIV and AIDS. A major perception was that HIV/AIDS is a ‘foreign disease’, ironically its prevalence rate is much higher in India as compared to other countries. This article discusses approaches to sexual health in select countries that do substantially better on sexual health. This review indicates that the lessons may help a country like India to do better in providing for the sexual health of its citizens.

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