SEXUALITY OF 16- TO 17- YEAR-OLD SOUTH AFRICANS IN THE CONTEXT OF HIV/AIDS

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer ◽  
Supa Pengpid
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Aids Prevention ◽  
Old South ◽  
South Africans ◽  
First Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Hiv Aids

The aim of this study was to better understand the sexuality of youth in the context of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Participants (400 male and 400 female 16- and 17- year-olds) 400 were from rural and 400 from urban areas, and almost all were of African descent. Results indicate that two-thirds of the girls and more than half of the boys had had sexual intercourse and had petted. Almost half of the boys (44.3%) and 24% of the girls took less than a week to have sexual intercourse in their current steady relationship. Only 40% of the girls and 57% of the boys had used a condom during their first sexual intercourse; HIV-AIDS prevention efforts should be linked to research on sexuality to advance effectiveness.

Perceived Risks of HIV/AIDS and First Sexual Intercourse among Youth in Cape Town, South Africa

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Y. Tenkorang ◽  
Fernando Rajulton ◽  
Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Perceived Risks ◽  
First Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals Sexual Behavior and HIV / AIDS Prevention in Male Sexual Men (MSM) in Denpasar City

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Luh Gede Pradnyawati ◽  
Ni Made Hegard Sukmawati
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Sexual Partner ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Aids Prevention ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Group Sex ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Hiv Aids

HIV / AIDS cases among MSM (male sex men) in Indonesia from year to year have increased significantly. Meanwhile, Bali is a province with many HIV / AIDS cases, where Denpasar is the city with the highest number of MSM. There has never been a report on sexual behavior and HIV / AIDS prevention among MSM in Denpasar. Therefore, the researchers wanted to explore the problems of sexual behavior and its prevention in MSM in Denpasar. Purpose: This study aims to obtain a vision of sexual behavior and HIV / AIDS prevention among MSM groups in Denpasar City. This study used a qualitative design with a phenomenological approach to digging deeper into sexual behavior and HIV / AIDS prevention among MSM in Denpasar City. The selection of informants in this study was taken using convenience sampling technique and conducted in-depth interviews with 10 MSM who were productive and communicative in Denpasar. After collecting data in the field, the data will be analyzed thematically. In sexual intercourse behavior, most of the MSM prioritized variations and sensations during sexual intercourse to get sexual satisfaction, such as having group sex, using arousal-enhancing drugs, and violence engaging during sexual intercourse. Some of the informants only had one permanent sexual partner. However, there are still MSM who have more than one sexual partner and receive payment for sexual intercourse. Informants use condoms in sexual intercourse and with the PrEP method to avoid HIV / AIDS. It is necessary to conduct education and counseling on sexual orientation for the community, especially for adolescents looking for identity, educating MSM to reduce high-risk behavior during sexual intercourse. Keywords: Sexual behavior, MSM, prevention, HIV / AIDS, Denpasar

scholarly journals Strengthening Urban Resilience: Five emerging lessons

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Silva
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Urban Settings ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Almost All

Strengthening urban resilience is key to achieving Oxfam's vision of a world without poverty. Urbanization has become a major challenge for almost all countries around the globe. Cities and city inhabitants are facing additional and amplified challenges as a result of rapid urbanization, a changing climate and rising inequality in urban areas. The COVID-19 crisis has further highlighted the importance of strengthening inclusive urban resilience to acute shocks and chronic stresses. Oxfam's Resilience Knowledge Hub conducted the Urban Resilience Learning Exchange (URLE) project with pilot programmes in Jordan, Pakistan, Nepal, South Africa, Kenya and Bangladesh to develop a better understanding of what it takes to build resilience in urban settings. This paper summarizes the learning from the pilots and looks at how Oxfam can further strengthen its urban resilience programming.

scholarly journals Mobilizing for Global AIDS Treatment

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (Special-Issue) ◽  
pp. 29-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Ann Richey
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Aids Prevention ◽  
International Relations Theory ◽  
Global Communication ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
Language Class ◽  
The North ◽  
Funding Programs ◽  
Hiv Aids

Abstract Global communication about HIV/AIDS requires the creation of new communities that can bridge distances and distinctions of nationality, language, class, race, gendered-identities and other forms of local identification on a disease that is associated with the realm usually understood as private (sexuality). Global AIDS, characterized as ‘the disease of our time’, is responsible for spawning an entire industry devoted to the prevention, detection, treatment, and potential cure of HIV/AIDS. In terms of scale, this industry works primarily cross-nationally, with donors from the North funding programs for AIDS prevention and care in the South. Anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs), typically produced as generics by manufacturers in India or South Africa and purchased by aid funding, are central to global AIDS programs. Yet, mobilizing for global AIDS treatment embodies the logic of marketing, in which Africans with AIDS are sold as lives to be saved. This article will draw from international relations theory, sociology and anthropology to offer an interdisciplinary perspective on mobilizing communication globally.

scholarly journals Black living standards in South Africa before democracy: New evidence from height

2018 ◽  
Vol 114 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bokang Mpeta ◽  
Johan Fourie ◽  
Kris Inwood
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Black Population ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Alternative Measure ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Black And White

Very little income or wage data were systematically recorded about the living standards of South Africa’s black majority during much of the 20th century. We used four data sets to provide an alternative measure of living standards – namely stature – to document, for the first time, living standards of black South Africans over the course of the 20th century. We found evidence to suggest that living standards in the first three decades of the century were particularly poor, perhaps because of the increasingly repressive labour policies in urban areas and famine and land expropriation that weighed especially heavily on the Basotho. The decade following South Africa’s departure from the gold standard, a higher international gold price and the demand for manufactured goods from South Africa as a consequence of World War II seem to have benefitted both black and white South Africans. The data also allowed us to disaggregate by ethnicity within the black population group, revealing levels of inequality within race groups that have been neglected in the literature. Finally, we compared black and white living standards, and revealed the large and widening levels of inequality that characterised 20th-century South Africa.

scholarly journals Young people's conception of HIV/AIDS and the use of condoms in sexual intercourse

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Aparecida de ALMEIDA ◽  
Jordana de Almeida NOGUEIRA ◽  
Maria Patrícia Lopes GOLDFARB ◽  
Fábia Lunguinho BATISTA ◽  
Anne Jaquelyne Roque BARRÊTO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Aids Prevention ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Preventive Method ◽  
Prevention Methods ◽  
Preventive Methods ◽  
The City ◽  
Hiv Aids

The aim of this study was to gather knowledge regarding the conception of young people as for HIV/AIDS and the use of condoms in sexual intercourse. Survey conducted in May, 2012, at a public school in the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba, with eleven young people of both sexes. The chosen technique of investigation was a semi-structured interview. Empirical data were organized according to categorical content analysis, the following categories emerging: "AIDS: what young people think", "AIDS prevention methods" and one subcategory "Trust in the partner as a method for HIV/AIDS prevention". As observed, there is knowledge of condom use as a preventive method against HIV/AIDS; trust in the partner and faithfulness were also cited as preventive methods in both sexes. It is suggested that, when investing in national and regional proposals, not only social inequalities are to be considered, but especially the local realities of different young people in different national scenarios.

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