Why HIV/AIDS prevention strategies fail in Botswana: considering discourses of sexuality

Autor:	Julia Preece, Peggy Gabo Ntseane
Rok vydání:	2005
Předmět:	Geography Planning and Development Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Ethnic group virus diseases Gender studies Human sexuality Development Criminology medicine.disease_cause medicine.disease Value systems Social relation law.invention Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Condom law Situated medicine Sociology
Zdroj:	Development Southern Africa. 22:347-363
ISSN:	1470-3637 0376-835X
DOI:	10.1080/14797580500252910
Popis:	A phenomenological study that was carried out among five ethnic groups of Botswana revealed the importance of taking into account culturally situated sexual realities when prevention policies for HIV/AIDS are considered and implemented. Furthermore the study threw light on the ineffectiveness of the current national HIV/AIDS prevention strategy of ‘Abstain, Be faithful, or use a Condom’ (ABC), a strategy that has been externally imposed on communities, without sufficiently engaging the behavioural practices and values of the communities themselves. This paper therefore advocates educational strategies for HIV/AIDS prevention that take into consideration localised social relations and value systems. Devising policies that engage with the discourses that are dominant in each ethnic group can make a difference in a country that has been hard-hit by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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