Communication, choice and freedom with reference to risk in aspects of communication on HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS Antenatal Consultations as Regulative Discourse: The Case of Malawi

“…The interaction of health practitioners and patients in Malawi has demonstrated that there is a potential for discussion and inclusion of local and experiential knowledge if the health professionals attend to some of the linguistic and discoursal features of their talk as presented in our analysis. As has been argued elsewhere, it is not information about prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS that people lack in Malawi and southern Africa more generally, but lack of compliance with that knowledge (Chasi & de Wet 2006;Penn et al 2011). Moreover, others have argued that health education is not the only necessary step to curb health problems and provide access to treatment (Montgomery et al 2006).…”