The United States Africa Command: Enhancing American security or fostering African development?

Isike, Christopher; Okeke-Uzodike, Ufo; Gilbert, Lysias Dodd

doi:10.1080/10246029.2008.9627457

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“…Research is needed to determine if similar strategies effectively improve the uptake of HIV testing among women and, particularly, among young women. In closing, the exploration of gender differences related to HIV prevention and treatment should be considered within ongoing conversations about the importance of modifying African patriarchies to address the HIV epidemic in Africa (31).…”

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Gender Differences in Psychosocial Predictors of Sexual Activity and HIV Testing Among Youth in Kenya

Chenneville¹,

Drake²

2021

Front. Reprod. Health

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Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) carries a disproportionate burden of HIV in the world relative to its population. Youth are at particular risk. Understanding HIV risk factors, as well as factors affecting HIV testing among SSA youth, is important given that HIV testing, linkage to care, and viral suppression are part of the global strategy to end HIV. Because young women face disparate sexual and reproductive health outcomes, exploring gender differences related to HIV risk, and testing is vital. Using existing program evaluation data from a larger project, the purpose of this study was to explore gender differences related to sexual activity and HIV testing among youth in SSA. Participant data from 581 youth ages 13–24 in Kenya was analyzed using descriptive statistics, analysis of covariance, and binomial logistic regression. Findings revealed that young men were more likely to report sexual activity than young women. Age was a predictor of sexual activity for all youth. However, among psychosocial variables, depression predicted sexual activity for young women while stress predicted sexual activity for young men. Although there were no gender differences in HIV testing after controlling for demographic and psychosocial variables, there were some differences between young women and young men with regard to predictors of HIV testing. Age and full-time self-employment predicted HIV testing among young women, while part-time self-employment, education, and substance abuse risk predicted HIV testing among young men. Findings suggest a need for gender and youth friendly strategies for addressing the HIV treatment cascade and care continuum.

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Gender Differences in Psychosocial Predictors of Sexual Activity and HIV Testing Among Youth in Kenya

Chenneville¹,

Drake²

2021

Front. Reprod. Health

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“…The emergence of increased non-traditional security threats in the aftermath of the Cold War and amidst globalisation led to increased levels of poverty, corruption, insurgencies and weak governance and leadership [58].…”

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SADC and ECOWAS’S peace and security architecture preparedness and the COVID-19 pandemic

Joseph

2022

Eureka: SH

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic remains a global security threat, as the result of the emerging and exacerbated security challenges that have impacted on the national security policies of various regional economic communities (RECs). This study analyses SADC and ECOWAS’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic under their respective existing peace and security structures and explores if both RECs, SADC and ECOWAS have been efficient. This article discusses the Southern African and West African security setting, how its security architecture emerged and whether it has been successful in overcoming the security ramification in the region under the Covid-19 pandemic. Coincidentally, both SADC and ECOWAS have been confronted with existing and emerging human security threats, such as increased poverty, inequality, and the spread of diseases, such as Covid-19. The Covid-19 pandemic, a non-traditional security threat, has exposed how RECs, such as SADC and ECOWAS, respond to non-traditional and emerging security threats, suggesting for the transcendence of their security architecture that caters equally for non-military and emerging human security threats, alike military threats. This article explores the regional security experiences, challenges, and responses of both the SADC and ECOWAS under the Covid-19 pandemic.

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“…This is because the gender worldview that underpinned and defined masculinities in the pre-colonial era was one that saw women as spiritual and earthly leaders with awesome abilities and sacred powers to produce economically and reproduce existentially. According to Isike and Uzodike (2008), this kind of worldview and the attitudes that flow from it would have driven men's responses to be more caring and responsible than they are presently if pre-colonial societies had encountered the HIV and AIDS epidemic. "Men would have taken responsibility not only by avoiding reckless sexual behaviour, but also by providing emotional support and care for women and children infected and dying from the epidemic" (Isike and Uzodike, 2008: 12).…”

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“…Before then, "this non-confirmatory form of patriarchy, the modern patriarchy, had taken firm root in European ideation system" (Williams;1997:238). This inspired the myth of the rational man/emotional woman and the ideas of pacification that justified slavery and the rape and subsequent colonisation of Africa (Campbell, 2003;McLintock, 1995;Saul, 1992 care to female victims of the virus, through male irresponsibility of keeping multiple sexual partners, through husbands beating up wives who dare to negotiate sex and condom usage, and through the phenomenon of rape in marriage, post-colonial Africa men exacerbate women's vulnerability to HIV and AIDS (Isike and Uzodike, 2008).…”

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Marginalising women in politics: Recent trends in KwaZulu-Natal

Isike

Uzodike

2011

Development Southern Africa

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The United States Africa Command: Enhancing American security or fostering African development?

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Gender Differences in Psychosocial Predictors of Sexual Activity and HIV Testing Among Youth in Kenya

Gender Differences in Psychosocial Predictors of Sexual Activity and HIV Testing Among Youth in Kenya

SADC and ECOWAS’S peace and security architecture preparedness and the COVID-19 pandemic

Marginalising women in politics: Recent trends in KwaZulu-Natal

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