The ABC Approach and the Feminization of HIV/AIDS in the Sub-Saharan Africa

Lynette Kvasny; Jing Chong

doi:10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch002

The ABC Approach and the Feminization of HIV/AIDS in the Sub-Saharan Africa

Lynette Kvasny
, Jing Chong

College of Information Sciences and Technology

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Abstract

Women, the dominant subjects of AIDS discourses, are placed at risk by common systems of oppression such as gender, race, class, and social and spatial location. Through the health campaigns which are disseminated and reproduced through television, radio, newspapers, and more recently the internet, women are uniquely constructed by privileged “experts” from the West as consumable subjects. In the case of women in Sub- Sahara Africa, we found that health campaigns which feminize AIDS are rooted in largely hegemonic cultural images which portray women as vulnerable subjects under siege. Through our analysis, we problematize the ABC health campaign and its appropriateness for women in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Volume 1-3
Publisher	IGI Global
Pages	10-15
Number of pages	6
Volume	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9781599048901
ISBN (Print)	9781599048895
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch002
State	Published - Jan 1 2008

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General Medicine
General Health Professions

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