Creating Futures: lessons from the development of a livelihood-strengthening curriculum for young people in eThekwini's informal settlements

Sex Education ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 543-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Misselhorn ◽  
Mildred Mushinga ◽  
Nwabisa Jama Shai ◽  
Laura Washington
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Informal Settlements

“Remedies” and Remedies

2020 ◽  
pp. 110-139
Author(s):  
Julie Hardwick
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Potential Risk ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Partners ◽  
Occasional Occurrence ◽  
Women’S Reproductive Health ◽  
Women's Reproductive Health ◽  
Induce Abortion

Young people sought to resolve the challenge of untimely pregnancies in various ways. Male and female partners were involved with efforts to terminate the pregnancies—in effect, to induce abortion. Women’s reproductive health was potentially endangered both by the morbity of pregnancies and childbirth in pre-modern societies and by the potential risk of the “remedies” associated with attempting to end a pregnancy. A host of clergy, legal specialists, and friends and neighbors sought to support young couples in other ways by mediating informal settlements with the goal of ensuring safe deliveries and the welfare of the babies. In all of these efforts, working communities saw out-of-wedlock pregnancy as an inevitable if hopefully occasional occurrence to be managed pragmatically to secure the futures of all involved.

scholarly journals Framing Contraceptive Use Motivations Among Adolescents and Young Adults Living in Informal Settlements in Kira Municipality, Wakiso District, Uganda

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chama Mulubwa ◽  
Margarate Nzala Munakampe ◽  
Hilda Namakula ◽  
Alison Hernandez ◽  
Tonny Ssekamatte ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Contraceptive Use ◽  
Informal Settlement ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Unintended Pregnancies ◽  
Modern Contraceptives

Introduction: The use of contraceptives among adolescents and young adults is one of the most cost-effective strategies to address many sexual and reproductive health (SRH) challenges, including unintended pregnancies, early marriages, and sexually transmitted infections. Despite a high burden of SRH challenges, uptake and unmet needs of modern contraceptives remain low in Uganda, especially among adolescents and young adults in informal settlement settings. This study aimed to explore the motivations of adolescents and young people to use modern contraceptives (or not).Methods: We analysed qualitative data from eight focus group discussions with 88 adolescents and young people aged 18–24 years residing in informal settlements of urban communities in Kira Municipality of Wakiso district, Uganda.Results: Motivations for use (or not) of modern contraceptives were framed by two interrelated constructs, sources of information on contraception and the unacceptable use of contraceptives among adolescents widespread in the community. These two, in turn, formed the scope of knowledge upon which adolescents and young people based their decision on whether or not to access and use modern contraceptives.Conclusion: To be more effective, sexual and reproductive health programs and interventions that aim to motivate the use of modern contraceptives among adolescents and young people in informal settings should be more comprehensive and focused on alleviating individual, health systems, social, religious factors that reinforce negative health-seeking behaviours towards contraceptive use. In addition, there is a need to support adolescents and young people with socio-economic empowering strategies that equip them with sufficient resources to choose contraceptives of their choice.

RELIGION, RELIGIOSITY AND PREMARITAL SEXUAL ATTITUDES OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS OF NAIROBI, KENYA

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHEN OBENG GYIMAH ◽  
IVY KODZI ◽  
JACQUES EMINA ◽  
NICHOLAS COFIE ◽  
ALEX EZEH
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Control Function ◽  
Sexual Attitudes ◽  
Reference Group ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Adolescent Sexuality ◽  
Premarital Sex ◽  
Theoretical Base ◽  
Premarital Sexual ◽  
High Level

SummaryAlthough attitudes to premarital sex may be influenced by several factors, the importance of religion to that discourse cannot be underestimated. By providing standards to judge and guide behaviour, religion provides a social control function such that religious persons are expected to act in ways that conform to certain norms. This study investigated the interconnectedness of several dimensions of religion and premarital sexual attitudes among young people in the informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya. Using reference group as the theoretical base, it was found that those affiliated with Pentecostal/Evangelical faiths had more conservative attitudes towards premarital sex than those of other Christian faiths. Additionally, while a high level of religiosity was found to associate with more conservative views on premarital sex, the effect was more pronounced among Pentecostal groups. The findings are discussed in relation to programmes on adolescent sexuality.

Developing theory-based risk-reduction interventions for HIV-positive young people with haemophilia

Haemophilia ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Schultz ◽  
R. B. Butler ◽  
L. Mckernan ◽  
R. Boelsen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Hiv Positive

Young People, Comics and Reading

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Cedeira Serantes
Keyword(s):  
Young People

Deaf Young People and their Families

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Gregory ◽  
Juliet Bishop ◽  
Lesley Sheldon
Keyword(s):  
Young People

Social representations of human rights violations: Further evidence

2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Clémence ◽  
Thierry Devos ◽  
Willem Doise
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Questionnaire Study ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
High Tolerance ◽  
Individual Actions

Social representations of human rights violations were investigated in a questionnaire study conducted in five countries (Costa Rica, France, Italy, Romania, and Switzerland) (N = 1239 young people). We were able to show that respondents organize their understanding of human rights violations in similar ways across nations. At the same time, systematic variations characterized opinions about human rights violations, and the structure of these variations was similar across national contexts. Differences in definitions of human rights violations were identified by a cluster analysis. A broader definition was related to critical attitudes toward governmental and institutional abuses of power, whereas a more restricted definition was rooted in a fatalistic conception of social reality, approval of social regulations, and greater tolerance for institutional infringements of privacy. An atypical definition was anchored either in a strong rejection of social regulations or in a strong condemnation of immoral individual actions linked with a high tolerance for governmental interference. These findings support the idea that contrasting definitions of human rights coexist and that these definitions are underpinned by a set of beliefs regarding the relationships between individuals and institutions.

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