Representations of HIV/AIDS management in South African newspapers

Campbell, Catherine; Gibbs, Andrew

doi:10.2989/ajar.2008.7.2.5.522

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“…The lack of community support from public sector agencies is consistent with a wider tendency -in the South African public sphere -to devalue the importance of involving communities in responding to HIV/AIDS (despite the country's formal pro-community policy rhetoric), and to emphasise technical solutions for HIV/AIDS management (Campbell and Gibbs, 2008b). We are aware that our decision to end this case study with three possible interpretations does not point to clear and easy conclusions about the role of community participation in achieving the Millennium Development Goals.…”

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Frustrated Potential, False Promise or Complicated Possibilities? Empowerment and Participation Amongst Female Health Volunteers in South Africa

Campbell

Gibbs

Nair

et al. 2009

Journal of Health Management

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We present a longitudinal case study of lay women's participation in a Project seeking to facilitate home-based care of people dying of AIDS in a rural community in South Africa, drawing on four sets of interviews conducted with volunteers over a five-year period. We link participation in the Project to three dimensions of women's agency: their knowledge and skills, their confidence and their personal experiences of efficacy. We show that whilst the experience of participation enhanced each of these dimensions of volunteers' agency at various stages of the Project, the empowerment that did take place appeared to be limited to women's project-related roles, rather than generalising to other areas of their lives beyond the Project. The Project had limited impact on women's ability to negotiate condom use with husbands, to assert themselves in relation to male Project leaders, and to become more involved in wider community decision-making and leadership. We discuss three possible interpretations of our findings (i) that greater empowerment might have occurred had the Project run for a longer time period; (ii) that whilst such projects play a vital role in providing services, the more general 'empowerment via participation' agenda is a false promise in highly

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Frustrated Potential, False Promise or Complicated Possibilities? Empowerment and Participation Amongst Female Health Volunteers in South Africa

Campbell

Gibbs

Nair

et al. 2009

Journal of Health Management

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“…HIV/AIDS remains one of the many challenges facing South Africa today (Campbell and Gibbs 2008; articles in The Mercury [The stigma that can kill 2008] and The Witness [Changing habits: The President and HIV prevention 2010:10] and it presents a unique challenge to education and schools (Coombe 2002). McLean and Hiles (2005) and Sawers and Stillwaggon (2010) state that no deadly disease spreads as rapidly or has had such a huge impact on schooling as HIV/AIDS.…”

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Problems in Managing Educators with HIV/AIDS in South African Schools

Steyn

2012

Journal of Human Ecology

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HIV/AIDS poses a severe threat to the quality of schooling in South Africa. School principals may play a key role in managing educators with (Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS). This article reports on part of the investigation done for a Master's dissertation. Its research aim was to identify the needs and challenges which school principals face in managing educators with HIV/AID S. The purpose of this article was to identify strategies for the management of educators infected with HIV/AIDS in schools. In order to obtain a better understanding of the problem, a qualitative research strategy, in particular an interpretative approach, was selected as the most appropriate research design. Data collection was done by means of individual interviews with school principals and focus group interviews with teachers, while the data analysis was done using Colaizzi's approach. The findings reveal that there are certain measures which could be a pplied to manage educators with HIV/AIDS. The article concludes by making recommendations for principals, the Department of Education and teachers.

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“…Campbell & Gibbs, 2008;Gibbs, 2010). While these researchers are clear in arguing that their studies focus on the representations of HIV&AIDS amongst elite decision-makers, very little research focuses on where HIV&AIDS is lived and experienced.…”

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“…In South Africa, numerous studies point to the engagement of the South African public with the media as a source of information and entertainment, especially in relation to HIV&AIDS (Campbell & Gibbs, 2008;Parker & Kelly, 200 1). Newspapers, in particular, are seen to be important in agenda setting and shaping dominant views of important issues (Gibbs, 2010;Jacobs & Johnson, 2007), as well as providing a range of alternative voices in the public sphere in South Africa (Parker & Kelly, 2001).…”

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Narratives of Masculinity in the Daily Sun: Implications for HIV Risk and Prevention

Gibbs

Jobson

2011

South African Journal of Psychology

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Dominant and hegemonic masculinities typically place women and men at risk of contracting HIV through reinforcing gender inequalities. Challenging these masculinities is increasingly seen as a precondition fortackling HIV&AIDS. Narratives of masculinity are the symbolic tools, which men draw upon to construct their social identities. Understanding the composition of these narratives of masculinity is central for understanding how narratives of masculinity may, or may not, shape HIV-related health behaviours. The media is a central space in which narratives of masculinity are produced and reproduced. We analyse five days' worth of the newspaper, the Daily Sun, in December 2008 to identify the different narratives of masculinity that circulate in the newspaper. Through thematic analysis we identify three different global-narratives: (i) Masculinity and work, (ii) Masculinity, violence and crime, and (iii) Masculinity and HIV. We explore each of these narratives and suggest how they may create contexts in which certain HIV-related health behaviours are more or less likely. We suggest that despite the variation in the narratives of masculinity circulating in the Dai/y Sun these narratives are limited and typically undermine HIV-related health behaviours by either sustaining a masculine ideal that is unachievable, emphasising a narrative of a disempowered masculinity, or by providing limited masculine narratives around HIV&AIDS. We emphasise how this undermines HIV prevention and suggest possible approaches to challenging these narratives.

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Representations of HIV/AIDS management in South African newspapers

Cited by 16 publications

References 31 publications

Frustrated Potential, False Promise or Complicated Possibilities? Empowerment and Participation Amongst Female Health Volunteers in South Africa

Frustrated Potential, False Promise or Complicated Possibilities? Empowerment and Participation Amongst Female Health Volunteers in South Africa

Problems in Managing Educators with HIV/AIDS in South African Schools

Narratives of Masculinity in the Daily Sun: Implications for HIV Risk and Prevention

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