The Intersection of Human Capital, Gender and Hiv/AIDS in the African Context

ISBN-13: 9783631540688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 114 str.

Ingelore Welpe;Philip Owino

Opis

The HIV/AIDS pandemic is subject of numerous medical, health and socio-political publications which predominately focus on poverty related issues. Sexuality norms and traditional African gender roles remain tabooed. HIV/AIDS is spreading unhampered along the gender route, erasing Africa s most valuable resource young women and young men. Rewarding this silence is the unaffordable loss of human capital which is needed by the sub-Saharan African region for sustainable development. The authors experienced in perennial scientific studies and community projects examine the consequences of the lethal combination of culture, patriarchy, gender norms and the spread of HIV/AIDS. This book challenges the dogma of cultural and gender norms in the HIV/AIDS context in order to advance public debate."

Spis treści

Contents : Ingelore Welpe: Volume Introduction - Britta Thege: Aspects of the Gender Dimension of HIV/AIDS in Kenya - Shirley Henderson/Kerstin Kolbe: HIV/AIDS - Intervention Responses and the Ignored Circular Forces of Gender and African Culture - Lucy Maina/Fuchaka Waswa: Evolving Pornographic Culture and its Implications on the Spread of HIV/AIDS among the Youth in Kenya - Evaline S. Mudhune/Philip O. Owino: Capacity Building and the Importance of HIV/AIDS for Universities in Africa - Abebe Haile Gabriel: African Universities' Response to HIV/AIDS in the Global AIDS Initiative Countries: A Synthesis of Country Reports.

O autorze

The Editors: Ingelore Welpe is a psychologist, anthropologist and author. She is a professor in the Department of Social Work and Health at the University of Applied Sciences Kiel. Her areas of specialisation include: growth and maturity of adolescent girls, women in politics, science and culture, women in business, gender and health and gender and economy.
Philip Owino is Director of the HIV/AIDS Control Unit (ACU) and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences at Kenyatta University, Nairobi. His research areas are microbiology/pathology, food production and poverty alleviation, and HIV/AIDS education and policy implementation in the community & universities. He is doing international consultancy work in HIV/AIDS capacity building. In 2005 the author was Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Women's Research and Gender Studies of the University of Applied Sciences Kiel.