Fishing in dangerous waters: Ecology, gender and economy in HIV risk
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It is argued that the changing ecological environment of Lake Victoria, Africa's largest freshwater lake, mapping onto a gendered economy, shaped fisherfolk's sexual relationships and sexual mixing patterns in ways that were consequential for their HIV risk.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2011-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 106 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).read more
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Contribution of Fisheries and Aquaculture to Food Security and Poverty Reduction: Assessing the Current Evidence
Christophe Béné,Robert Arthur,Hannah Norbury,Edward H. Allison,Malcolm Beveridge,Simon R. Bush,Liam Campling,William Leschen,David C. Little,Dale Squires,Shakuntala H. Thilsted,Max Troell,Meryl J. Williams +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the existing evidence of how and to what extent capture fisheries and aquaculture contribute to improving nutrition, food security, and economic growth in developing and emergent countries.
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Revisiting the understanding of "transactional sex" in sub-Saharan Africa: A review and synthesis of the literature.
TL;DR: A historically-grounded, comprehensive literature review on the nature and motivations for women's participation in transactional sex in sub-Saharan Africa is contributed and it is suggested that there are three continua stretching across these paradigms: deprivation, agency, and instrumentality.
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Condom Semiotics: Meaning and Condom Use in Rural Malawi (Discoveries: New and Noteworthy Social Research)
Ido Tavory,Ann Swidler +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined the widespread resistance to condom use in sub-Saharan Africa by describing the major semiotic axes that organize how people talk about condoms and condom use, including the "sweetness" of sex, trust and love between sexual partners, and assessments of risk and danger.
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High HIV incidence and socio-behavioral risk patterns in fishing communities on the shores of Lake Victoria, Uganda.
Janet Seeley,Jessica Nakiyingi-Miiro,Anatoli Kamali,Juliet Mpendo,Gershim Asiki,Andrew Abaasa,Jan De Bont,Leslie Nielsen,Pontiano Kaleebu +8 more
TL;DR: These fishing communities experienced high HIV infection, which was mainly explained by high-risk behavior, and there is an urgent need to target HIV prevention and research efforts to this vulnerable and neglected group.
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Intersectionality and the Sociology of HIV/AIDS: Past, Present, and Future Research Directions
Abstract: This review focuses on three topics that have dominated the sociological literature on HIV/AIDS in the United States: (a) the demographics of the epidemic and the dynamics of structural-, neighborhood-, and individual-level risk; (b) the lived experiences of HIV-positive people; and (c) the collective response to HIV/AIDS through community-based services, political activism and social movements, and public policy. Sociologists have pursued inquiry in all of these areas and have often advanced the implicit and explicit use of approaches that reveal the epidemic's embedded power relations. Previous research and the dynamics of the epidemic suggest a fundamental argument: HIV/AIDS is an epidemic of intersectional inequality that is fueled by racial, gender, class, and sexual inequities at the macro-structural, meso-institutional, and micro-interpersonal levels. These inequalities significantly shape the likelihood of exposure to the virus; the realities of living with the infection; and medical, programmatic...
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