The Dual Feminisation of HIV/AIDS

Harman, Sophie

doi:10.1080/14747731.2010.493023

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“…The case of young women points to a second benefit of conditional cash transfers: they have positive outcomes for women who are disproportionately infected and affected by HIV/AIDS (Harman, 2011). For some, cash transfers are effective means of promoting self-esteem and empowerment (Vincent and Cull, 2009).…”

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“…Moreover, promoting behaviour change through cash incentives for women specifically positions women as economic objects malleable to financial pressure, thus reinforcing gendered dependencies on resources external to women's labour. This is particularly relevant to HIV/AIDS, which is increasingly feminised in terms of the disproportionate number of women both infected and affected by the disease, as women bear the brunt of care for family and neighbours within local communities as well (Harman, 2011). The introduction of conditional cash transfers as a key tool in the response to HIV/AIDS will most likely embed this burden of care and responsibility of responding to the disease at a local level, and further stereotypes of men as not responding or somehow not committed to the response to the epidemic.…”

Section: Problems and Perceptions Of Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Governing Health Risk by Buying Behaviour

Harman

2011

Political Studies

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This paper considers the role of conditional cash transfers as a mechanism of governing health risk by buying behaviour change in sexual practice. Conditional cash transfers have come to be identified as a potential solution to the problem of HIV prevention, and as such look likely to be applied throughout countries with high prevalence rates in sub-Saharan Africa. The paper considers the implications of two pilot studies in Tanzania and Malawi for governing the risk of HIV infection. It outlines the problem of behaviour change and individual rationality, the potential of conditional cash transfers as a relatively inexpensive programme with high outcomes, and some of limitations and implications of these initiatives for individual bodies, rationality and global health governance. The paper makes the argument that conditional cash transfers should be met with caution and that governing health risk by buying behaviour represents the intersection of biopolitical control with neoliberal forms of economic incentive through financial gain. The balancing of long term health needs with short term financial gain induces will to change behaviour: the problem being the sustainability of such change in the absence of financial gain and the long term consequences of constructing behaviour.

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Governing Health Risk by Buying Behaviour

Harman

2011

Political Studies

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“…Moreover, evidence from similar studies revealed that on average two person-years of labour are lost by the time of death in an AIDS-affected household in Africa [15,16]. Literature has also shown that HIV/AIDS pandemics are commonly found among productive age groups [17,18]. These studies noted that resulting effect of this is loss of agricultural labour not only from the people who die, but also from caregivers who have to give up working in the fields in order to take care of the sick.…”

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Empirical Analysis of Interactions of Agricultural Sector and HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Africa

Apata¹

2013

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This study examines long run economic cost of HIV/AIDS on agriculture. Twenty-two African Countries were identified through purposive sampling. The sampling procedure helped to identify 1420 affected households. However, 1300 observations were found suitable for the subsequent analysis. Data were subjected to descriptive statistics and Overlapping Generation (OLG) model. The causes of high prevalence rates are the issue of poverty, fertility, myth and migration among others. Factors responsible for the classification of high HIV/AIDS prevalence rates were the patterns of spread of infectious disease that are closely associated with patterns of human mobility. For lower HIV/AIDS prevalence rate factors were low values of procreation and high values placed on morals. A positive correlation between HIV prevalence and GDP per capita was found. The study found out that there is a curvilinear relationship between the course of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and agricultural/economic growth in terms of human capita development.

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“…Harman and Squire, for example, claim that women who live with HIV are restricted by how media and popular culture present this group [12,13]. The fact that men's sexuality is prioritized in relation to women's sexuality, in a society characterized by patriarchal structures, makes the sexual rights of women dependent on how men's sexuality is expressed [12,14]. Rubin describes how the development of a normative system regarding sexuality has its starting point in contexts to do with sex and gender where men symbolize desire and women symbolize purity [15].…”

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