The (Im)possibility of Child Sexual Rights in South African Children's Account of HIV/AIDS

Bhana, Deevia

doi:10.1111/j.1759-5436.2006.tb00304.x

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“…Therefore, female respondents' gendered socialization is purportedly designed to nurture sexual distancing from unrelated males, contain their sexual impulses, minimize sexual learning/conduct opportunities, and be reticent about their sexuality (Bhana 2006). Concurrently corroborating and contesting feminine socialization to avoid sex, and their de facto engagement in it, female respondents observe that:…”

Section: The Purpose Of Gender Socializationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Gender and Sexual Risk-Taking Among Selected Nigerian University Students

Okonkwo

2010

Sexuality & Culture

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This paper explores Nigerian undergraduate students' perspectives of gender influence on sexual risk-taking. Participants were recruited from several peer networks with snowballing because female students initially refused to participate in a long interview about their risk-prone sexual conducts with a male investigator. Analytically, essentialist notions of gender, such as hegemonic masculinity or passive femininity, were interrogated against the backdrop that they determine women's vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unwanted pregnancies in heterosexual relationships. There were tensions and contradictions between respondents' narrative self-presentations as knowledgeable, purposeful, and active social agents capable of elective sexual choice, and as agents whose sexualities are concurrently constrained and enabled by a cohort of interdependent societal structures, including gender, whose unitary influence on sexual risk-taking they consider weak. All respondents concede that their purposive and active pursuit of premarital heterosexual relationships, especially their maintenance with unprotected sex, is a stronger determinant of their vulnerabilities to STIs and unwanted pregnancies than the gender structure alone. Unequivocally, findings challenge essentialist notions of feminine sexual passivity and exclusive masculine sexual privilege, within premarital heterosexual relationships. Consequently, the author calls for the re-examination of gender structure on patterned behavior based on specified social interactions, such as premarital heterosexuality.

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Section: The Purpose Of Gender Socializationmentioning

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Gender and Sexual Risk-Taking Among Selected Nigerian University Students

Okonkwo

2010

Sexuality & Culture

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“…Some programs now aim to build life skills, including negotiation and communication with partners, self-efficacy, and to empower young people to resist peer pressure and to understand their right to information and services to protect their sexual health. 20,21,22 One of the major obstacles that such programs face is inadequate understanding about what adolescents already know, how accurate, practical and adequate is their knowledge, where they get the information from and what are the best ways of reaching adolescents, some of whom are not in school. This study contributes to filling some of these knowledge gaps by providing nationally-representative evidence from four countries on the sexual behaviors and related information needs of very young adolescents aged 12-14, a group about which very little is known.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…20 Various stakeholders (particularly religions leaders) have argued that teaching adolescents about sex and reproductive health would encourage them to indulge in sexual activities. And yet, despite the sensitivity of the issue, there is increasing consensus and acknowledgement that it is important to institute effective sex education programs to equip young people with information as well as skills to help them make informed and responsible decisions on sexual and reproductive health matters.…”

Section: Sources Of Information On Sexual and Reproductive Mattersmentioning

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Sexual Behavior, Knowledge and Information Sources of Very Young Adolescents in Four Sub-Saharan African Countries

Bankole

Biddlecom

Guiella

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African Journal of Reproductive Health

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Adolescents are a key target group for HIV and pregnancy prevention efforts, yet very little is known about the youngest adolescents: those under age 15. New survey data from 12-14 year olds in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi and Uganda are used to describe their sexual activity, knowledge about HIV, STIs and pregnancy prevention, and sources of sexual and reproductive health information, including sex education in schools. Results show that very young adolescents are already beginning to be sexually active and many believe their close friends are sexually active. They have high levels of awareness but little in-depth knowledge about pregnancy and HIV prevention. Multiple information sources are used and preferred by very young adolescents. Given their needs for HIV, STI and pregnancy prevention information that is specific and practical and considering that the large majority are attending school in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, school-based sex education is a particularly promising avenue for reaching adolescents under age 15.

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“…The impetus of such research in this field has been a conviction that better understanding of children's views about HIV/AIDS is needed to ensure the development of appropriate and effective strategies for HIV prevention and the promotion of children's health. Empirical research examining the meanings that younger children ascribe to HIV/ AIDS in South Africa is very small however (Bhana, 2006;Peltzer & Promtussananon, 2003), and this too can contribute to the literature and increase our knowledge in developing appropriate tools for intervention in the lives of younger children.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Other work in the project has described how black African children give meaning to the disease (Bhana, 2006). The study is located in the city of Durban and comprises about three million residents with just over 68.3% black African, 19.9% Asians or Indians, 8.98% white and 2.89% coloured (Statistics South Africa, 2003).…”

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confidence: 99%