|
| |
|
| |
 |
|
HIV-positive and Bringing Sexy Back 27-11-07
People tend to think that contracting HIV can spell the end of their sex lives, but HIV-positive Africans of all ages are now being urged to reclaim their sexuality and live healthy, normal lives. "I got this [HIV] through sex, so [I thought] my sexuality was gone and I felt I needed to stop dressing attractively and wait to die," Florence Anam , 28, an information officer at the Kenya Network of Women with AIDS, told IRIN/PlusNews. Full article »
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Regaining Control: realising women's rights to control their own sexuality, well-being and reproductive health in Africa 29-09-06
These commitments provide a comprehensive package for addressing the challenges of maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS, violence and disease. However, the urgent action needed to address what African Governments have described as a “continental state of emergency” can only be achieved by ensuring firm policy and programme linkages between Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS and Gender Based Violence. Full article » |
| |
|
| |
 |
|
Sexuality,
African religio-cultural traditions and modernity:
expanding the lens 04-03-06
This essay takes
a critical look at the normative as well as
counter normative alternatives to sexuality
both in Africa and in other cultures as they
relate to gender concepts and practices that
address the problem of inequality and state
patriarchy. Full
article » |
| |
|
| |
Engendering
sexuality: human rights issues in reproductive
and sexual health 26-07-06
Until quite recently
most Africans, especially in the sub Saharan
region, considered reproductive and sexual rights
as issues for discussion only by 'queers' and
liberal feminist groups. Full
article » |
| |
|
| |
 |
|
Gender
and the political economy of sex tourism in
Kenya's coastal resorts 17-06-06
This paper discusses
gender and the political economy of sex tourism
on the Kenyan coast, its health and socioeconomic
impact, and the government's policy on sex work. Full
article » |
| |
|
| |
 |
|
Muslims’ perspectives on key reproductive and sexual
health issues 29-03-06
Reproductive health
strategies are built around a core belief that
women as full, thinking, feeling personalities,
shaped by the particular social, economic, and
cultural conditions in which each of them lives,
are central to their own reproduction.
Full
article » |
| |
|
| |
 |
|
Contradictions
in constructions of African masculinities
15-03-06
Rather than the
yearned for comforts, the advent of a democratic
dispensation in South Africa has thrown up many
uncomfortable questions. Focusing on the sex/sexuality/gender
of African males is a deliberate move of disturbing
the taken-for-granted nature of African-ness,
and of such objects as ' African culture', 'African
masculinity', 'African womanhood' and 'African
sexuality'.
Full
article » |
| |
|
| |
 |
|
Silence, AIDS and
sexual culture in Africa 02-03-06
There is a mystery
at the heart of the AIDS epidemic in Africa that
scholars have explored but have been unable to
explain. The mystery has to do with the denial
that has consistently characterised the AIDS pandemic
in Africa. The silence has to do with that much
used and abused, dearly beloved sacred cow called
culture. Full
article » |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Sexuality: you must
start with yourself 20-02-06
Sexuality:
a very loaded word. Seemingly, a very personal
matter, yet, in many ways it defines and dictates
much of what goes on in society. Thinking about
sexuality inevitably starts from the subjective
before it moves to the objective, so to understand
how and why we all deal with sexuality we must
start with ourselves.
Full
article » |
| |
|
| |
 |
|
Research and capacity-building
for the promotion of sexual health and well-being
in the West Africa region 04-05-05
Despite
three decades of capacity building, there is still
little research on the health problems of the
poor. This is even more acute regarding sexual
health of people in West Africa. Research is essential
in improving the status of sexual health in any
community. Full
article » |
| |
|
| |
 |
|
Sex work and the politics
of researching gender and culture 17-05-05
Sex
work, a critical subject in advancing knowledge
on gender and work, has a troubled position in
the African academy. In 2000, at the center for
Basic Research in Uganda, we sat as a scientific
committee to select abstracts submitted by 160
prospective researchers in the Eastern and Southern
African region on the subject of gender and work.
There was not one single abstract on sex work.
So I asked the committee, "What about sex
work?" Full
article » |
| |
|
| |
 |
|
Demography, sexuality
and sexual behavior research in Nigeria 04-06-05
When HIV was first reported
in1967, there was very little concern that the
disease will spread to Nigeria. Nevertheless,
there have been apprehensions about the incidence
and prevalence of sexually transmitted disease
long before the advent of HIV/AIDS. Full
article » |
| |
|
| |
 |
|
When culture harms
the girls - the globalisation of female genital
mutilation 25-06-05
Among
communities that practise FGM, the procedure is
a highly valued ritual, whose purpose is to mark
the transition from childhood to womanhood. In
these traditional societies, FGM represents part
of the rites of passage or initiation ceremonies
intended to impart the skills and information
a woman will need to fulfil her duties as a wife
and mother. Full
article » |
|
|
|
 |
|
Decisions regarding
harmful practices and the role of husbands 11-07-05
This paper examines the
role of husbands in decisions related to some
of the harmful practices that influence the reproductive
health and quality of life of women in Egypt.
The paper focuses on two main practices, the female
genital cutting and the traditional hand defloration
at the time of wedding. Full
article » |
| |
|
