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Adolescent Girls and Young Women’s Experiences of Living with HIV in the Context of Patriarchal Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review

Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa are disproportionately affected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) due to socio-cultural gender, power, and economic disparities. This scoping review examined the literature to explore what is known about AGYW’s everyday personal,...

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Autores principales: Mhungu, Alington, Sixsmith, Judith, Burnett, Emma
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10129999/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36318422
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-022-03872-6
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description Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa are disproportionately affected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) due to socio-cultural gender, power, and economic disparities. This scoping review examined the literature to explore what is known about AGYW’s everyday personal, relational, and social experiences of HIV to help shape future protective HIV policy and practice. Six databases were searched: Medline, CINAHL, Scopus, ASSIA, Google Scholar, and ProQuest, resulting in a total of 12,581 articles. Of these, 40 articles were included in the review. Key themes generated from the thematic analysis were relational and psychosocial challenges, inhibiting sexual expression, poverty, stigma, and discrimination; managing health in everyday life; agency and resilience; and personal space and social support. In conclusion, the review found a lack of understanding of AGYW’s everyday experiences of living with HIV from their own perspectives. There was also little consideration of the role of patriarchal culture and how this constrains AGYW’s ability to negotiate their relationships. Further research is needed to reveal AGYW’s perspectives on living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10461-022-03872-6.
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spelling pubmed-101299992023-04-27 Adolescent Girls and Young Women’s Experiences of Living with HIV in the Context of Patriarchal Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review Mhungu, Alington Sixsmith, Judith Burnett, Emma AIDS Behav Substantive Review Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa are disproportionately affected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) due to socio-cultural gender, power, and economic disparities. This scoping review examined the literature to explore what is known about AGYW’s everyday personal, relational, and social experiences of HIV to help shape future protective HIV policy and practice. Six databases were searched: Medline, CINAHL, Scopus, ASSIA, Google Scholar, and ProQuest, resulting in a total of 12,581 articles. Of these, 40 articles were included in the review. Key themes generated from the thematic analysis were relational and psychosocial challenges, inhibiting sexual expression, poverty, stigma, and discrimination; managing health in everyday life; agency and resilience; and personal space and social support. In conclusion, the review found a lack of understanding of AGYW’s everyday experiences of living with HIV from their own perspectives. There was also little consideration of the role of patriarchal culture and how this constrains AGYW’s ability to negotiate their relationships. Further research is needed to reveal AGYW’s perspectives on living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10461-022-03872-6. Springer US 2022-11-01 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10129999/ /pubmed/36318422 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-022-03872-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title Adolescent Girls and Young Women’s Experiences of Living with HIV in the Context of Patriarchal Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review
title_full Adolescent Girls and Young Women’s Experiences of Living with HIV in the Context of Patriarchal Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review
title_fullStr Adolescent Girls and Young Women’s Experiences of Living with HIV in the Context of Patriarchal Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review
title_full_unstemmed Adolescent Girls and Young Women’s Experiences of Living with HIV in the Context of Patriarchal Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review
title_short Adolescent Girls and Young Women’s Experiences of Living with HIV in the Context of Patriarchal Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review
title_sort adolescent girls and young women’s experiences of living with hiv in the context of patriarchal culture in sub-saharan africa: a scoping review
topic Substantive Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10129999/
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