Trapped in the prison of the proximate: structural HIV/AIDS prevention in southern Africa

O'Laughlin, Bridget

doi:10.1080/03056244.2015.1064368

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“…More generally, they set out to categorically prove that the claim of external validity for RCT‐estimated impacts is necessarily invalid and that the resulting policy recommendations are groundless. O'Laughlin () comes to a similar conclusion with respect to HIV in southern Africa.…”

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All that Glitters is not Gold. The Political Economy of Randomized Evaluations in Development

Bédécarrats¹,

Guérin²,

Roubaud³

2017

Development and Change

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Randomized control trials (RCTs) have a narrow scope, restricted to basic intervention schemes. Experimental designs also display specific biases and political uses when implemented in the real world. Despite these limitations, the method has been advertised as the gold standard to evaluate development policies. This article adopts a political economy approach to explore this paradox. It argues that the success of RCTs is driven mainly by a new scientific business model based on a mix of simplicity and mathematical rigour, media and donor appeal, and academic and financial returns. This in turn meets current interests and preferences in the academic world and the donor community.

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Section: Critiques Of the Method: From Theory To Implementationmentioning

confidence: 68%

All that Glitters is not Gold. The Political Economy of Randomized Evaluations in Development

Bédécarrats¹,

Guérin²,

Roubaud³

2017

Development and Change

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“…A modo de conclusión, es necesario hacer intervenciones breves, por un lado, para poder evaluar los efectos de la intervención en todos los usuarios; por otro, para capacitar al personal de la comunidad para que sean ellos quienes trabajen constantemente en la prevención del VIH con la población (O'Laughlin, 2015); y también, considerar los contextos que se asocien con la conducta sexual de los jóvenes en conflicto con la ley para tener intervenciones eficaces y con efectos a largo plazo. Asimismo, se requiere seguir replicando este programa de intervención para evaluar su efectividad, y adicionalmente, evaluar a los adolescentes una vez que egresen de la comunidad para analizar su conducta sexual.…”

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Evaluación de un programa de intervención para promover la salud sexual en adolescentes mexicanos en conflicto con la ley.

Medina

Negrete

Montijo

2016

Acta. Colomb. Psicol.

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ResumenEl propósito de la presente investigación fue evaluar la efectividad de un programa de intervención para promover la salud sexual de adolescentes que se encuentran en conflicto con la ley. Se trabajó con 118 adolescentes pertenecientes a una comunidad de diagnóstico. Se utilizó un diseño cuasiexperimental con un grupo de intervención y uno control, conformado por tres fases: preevaluación, intervención y postevaluación. La intervención consistió en cinco sesiones de dos horas cada una, y estuvo conformada por los elementos que responden al modelo ecológico en sus tres niveles: microsistema (conocimientos, creencias, actitudes, intención y autoeficacia para usar condón, autoestima, comunicación con pareja, estilos de negociación para usar condón, entre otras); mesosistema (apoyo, supervisión y comunicación con padre y madre, entre otras), y macrosistema (estereotipos de género). Se realizó un análisis de medidas repetidas. Los resultados mostraron cambios entre el grupo control y el experimental, a favor de este último en todas las variables del modelo, excepto en comunicación con la pareja y autoestima. Los hallazgos se discuten en términos de la importancia de diseñar programas con base en el modelo ecológico dirigidos a población que se encuentran en un ambiente privado de la libertad. Palabras clave: modelo ecológico, adolescentes, uso de condón, intervención, VIH/Sida. EVALUATION OF AN INTERVENTION PROGRAM TO PROMOTE SEXUAL HEALTH AMONG MEXICAN ADOLESCENTS IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW AbstractThe purpose of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention program to promote sexual health of adolescents in conflict with the law. The study was carried out with 118 adolescents belonging to a diagnosis community. A quasi-experimental design was used with an intervention group and one control group, consisting of three phases: preevaluation, intervention and post-evaluation. The intervention, which consisted of five sessions of two hours each one, comprised the elements that respond to the ecological model in its three levels: micro-system (knowledge, believes, attitudes, intentions and self-efficacy to use condoms, self-esteem, communication with partner, negotiating styles, etc.); meso-system (support, supervision and communication with parent, etc.) and macro-system (gender stereotypes). An analysis of repeated measures was performed. Results showed changes between control and experimental groups, in favor of the latter in all the variables of the model, except for partner communication and self-esteem. The findings are discussed in terms of the importance of designing programs based on the ecological model aimed at people who are deprived of freedom.

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“…Davis on the United States, 1983;Reddock on Trinidad and Tobago, 1994). In Southern Africa, the racial features of the labour migration regime 'produced affliction' facilitating the spread of multiple diseases including HIV/AIDS (O'Laughlin, 2013(O'Laughlin, , 2015.…”

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Social reproduction and pandemic neoliberalism: Planetary crises and the reorganisation of life, work and death

Mezzadri

2022

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This article portrays the COVID-19 pandemic as a planetary crisis of capitalist life and analyses it through the feminist political economy lens of social reproduction. Celebrating the plurality and distinctiveness of social reproduction theorisations, the article deploys three approaches to map the contours of the present conjuncture; namely Social Reproduction Theory, Early Social Reproduction Analyses and Raced Social Reproduction approaches. These provide key complementary insights over the planetary crisis and reorganisation of life, work and death triggered by the pandemic. Through the compounded insights of social reproduction theorisations, the article argues that the pandemic does not represent a crisis of neoliberalism. Rather, it represents its outcome, and deepening of its logics, an argument which is substantiated by exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the reproductive architecture of neoliberal capitalism; on the world of work; and on racialised processes manufacturing different kinds of surplus subjects. In conclusion, the article discusses the political implications of this social reproduction-centred reading of the pandemic for a progressive post-pandemic politics to move beyond pandemic neoliberalism.

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Trapped in the prison of the proximate: structural HIV/AIDS prevention in southern Africa

Cited by 11 publications

References 65 publications

All that Glitters is not Gold. The Political Economy of Randomized Evaluations in Development

All that Glitters is not Gold. The Political Economy of Randomized Evaluations in Development

Evaluación de un programa de intervención para promover la salud sexual en adolescentes mexicanos en conflicto con la ley.

Social reproduction and pandemic neoliberalism: Planetary crises and the reorganisation of life, work and death

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