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It's harder for boys? Children's representations of their HIV/AIDS-affected peers in Zimbabwe

This study examines whether children in rural Zimbabwe have differing representations of their HIV/AIDS-affected peers based on the gender of those peers. A group of 128 children (58 boys, 70 girls) aged 10–14 participated in a draw-and-write exercise, in which they were asked to tell the story of e...

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Autores principales: LeRoux-Rutledge, Emily, Guerlain, Madeleine A., Andersen, Louise B., Madanhire, Claudius, Mutsikiwa, Alice, Nyamukapa, Constance, Skovdal, Morten, Gregson, Simon, Campbell, Catherine
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4706015/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26615976
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2015.1093592
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author LeRoux-Rutledge, Emily
Guerlain, Madeleine A.
Andersen, Louise B.
Madanhire, Claudius
Mutsikiwa, Alice
Nyamukapa, Constance
Skovdal, Morten
Gregson, Simon
Campbell, Catherine
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Guerlain, Madeleine A.
Andersen, Louise B.
Madanhire, Claudius
Mutsikiwa, Alice
Nyamukapa, Constance
Skovdal, Morten
Gregson, Simon
Campbell, Catherine
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description This study examines whether children in rural Zimbabwe have differing representations of their HIV/AIDS-affected peers based on the gender of those peers. A group of 128 children (58 boys, 70 girls) aged 10–14 participated in a draw-and-write exercise, in which they were asked to tell the story of either an HIV/AIDS-affected girl child, or an HIV/AIDS-affected boy child. Stories were inductively thematically coded, and then a post hoc statistical analysis was conducted to see if there were differences in the themes that emerged in stories about girls versus stories about boys. The results showed that boys were more often depicted as materially deprived, without adult and teacher support, and heavily burdened with household duties. Further research is needed to determine whether the perceptions of the children in this study point to a series of overlooked challenges facing HIV/AIDS-affected boys, or to a culture of gender inequality facing HIV/AIDS-affected girls – which pays more attention to male suffering than to female suffering.
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spelling pubmed-47060152016-01-22 It's harder for boys? Children's representations of their HIV/AIDS-affected peers in Zimbabwe LeRoux-Rutledge, Emily Guerlain, Madeleine A. Andersen, Louise B. Madanhire, Claudius Mutsikiwa, Alice Nyamukapa, Constance Skovdal, Morten Gregson, Simon Campbell, Catherine AIDS Care Articles This study examines whether children in rural Zimbabwe have differing representations of their HIV/AIDS-affected peers based on the gender of those peers. A group of 128 children (58 boys, 70 girls) aged 10–14 participated in a draw-and-write exercise, in which they were asked to tell the story of either an HIV/AIDS-affected girl child, or an HIV/AIDS-affected boy child. Stories were inductively thematically coded, and then a post hoc statistical analysis was conducted to see if there were differences in the themes that emerged in stories about girls versus stories about boys. The results showed that boys were more often depicted as materially deprived, without adult and teacher support, and heavily burdened with household duties. Further research is needed to determine whether the perceptions of the children in this study point to a series of overlooked challenges facing HIV/AIDS-affected boys, or to a culture of gender inequality facing HIV/AIDS-affected girls – which pays more attention to male suffering than to female suffering. Taylor & Francis 2015-11-02 2015-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4706015/ /pubmed/26615976 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2015.1093592 Text en © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by/4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mutsikiwa, Alice
Nyamukapa, Constance
Skovdal, Morten
Gregson, Simon
Campbell, Catherine
It's harder for boys? Children's representations of their HIV/AIDS-affected peers in Zimbabwe
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