Essays about: "HIV AIDS IN AFRICA"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 74 essays containing the words HIV AIDS IN AFRICA.

  1. 21. The ZAZI campaign´s Facebook page : A field study of the use of Facebook in the ZAZI campaign in South Africa

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi

    Author : Svedström Alexandra; [2014]
    Keywords : Health campaign; Facebook; Internet; social media; South Africa; focus groups; ZAZI campaign; uses and gratification; self-­efficacy; HIV;

    Abstract : Titel: The ZAZI campaign’s Facebook page- A field study of the use of Facebook in the ZAZI campaign Level: Bachelor thesis, C-level Area: Media and Communication Studies Author: Alexandra Svedström, V14MKand Supervisor: Associate professor Eva Åsén Ekstrand, Department of Media and Communication Studies Date: The field study will be conducted during March - May in 2014 Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the motives and attitudes of a group of South African women and men (aged between 20 to 30 years) have towards responding to the questions set on the ZAZI campaign’s Facebook page that may involve private and sensitive information. It also seeks to examine whether the questions that ZAZI campaign sets are consistent with the informant’s attitudes and motives. READ MORE

  3. 22. Lesbian Life in Malawi : an Intersectional Study of Repressive and Constructive Power

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Emma Eleonorasdotter; [2014]
    Keywords : Post colonial; Queer; Intersectionality; LGBT; Africa; Lesbian; Malawi; ethnology; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis identifies a set of power relations that complicates Western aid to African gay movements. It is a cultural analysis focusing on lesbians living in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, aiming to explore the tensions between discourses of power in play, from a post colonial and intersectional perspective. READ MORE

  4. 23. Exporting Sexual and Reproductive Values - A study on the existence of U.S. SRHR politics in international AIDS relief and prevention aid in Africa

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies; Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Jennifer Hagy; [2014]
    Keywords : Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights SRHR ; United States President´s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief PEPFAR ; United States Agency for International Development USAID ; HIV AIDS; women and international development; sexuality; motherhood; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the ideologies and moral values regarding sexuality and gender within the United States national realm of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR); and furthermore what how these ideologies and morals are translated into development policy. Through the method interrogative insertion, I have explored in the U.S. READ MORE

  5. 24. Resistent tuberkulos : en zoonos bortom kontroll?

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health

    Author : Ulrika Nordling; [2014]
    Keywords : Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Mycobacterium bovis; tuberkulos; läkemedelsresistens; zoonos; tuberculosis; drug resistance; zoonosis;

    Abstract : Omkring en tredjedel av världens befolkning tros vara bärare av tuberkulosbakterier och under 2012 beräknas 1,3 miljoner människor ha mist livet i sviterna av sjukdomen. Det gör tuberkulos till den infektionssjukdom som, näst efter AIDS, orsakar flest dödsfall bland människor. READ MORE

  6. 25. The impact of orphanhood and HIV/AIDS on school enrolment - Evidence from Zambia

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

    Author : Fanny Olsson; Maria Strandberg; [2013-06-20]
    Keywords : education; HIV AIDS; orphans; Zambia;

    Abstract : HIV/AIDS has made a great number of children orphans in sub-Saharan Africa where Zambia is one of the worst hit countries. The impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has become an issue of not only health, but of cross-sectional importance affecting other major corner stones in society such as education. READ MORE