INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sub-Saharan Africa, Sexual Ethics, Social Stigma

• School: McGill University
• Department: International Development
• Course: INTD 200
• Professor: Kazue Takamura

Document Summary

69 70 % affected / 25. 7 million / high hiv/aids prevalence in sub-saharan africa. Global health management: clinical approach (institutional, hiv testing, antiretroviral treatment, information sessions, health professionals, and mobile clinics, behavioural change approach (self-responsibility) Individual autonomy and accountability for disease prevention (promotion of condom: religious morality approach (faith-based organizations, most of the victims are married couples; women affected by men, sexual morality, promotion of youth abstinence. Key barriers: what are the key barriers faced by hiv-infected individuals, economic domain poverty. Institutional domain lack of the access to healthcare services (actual prevention and antiretroviral treatment: socio-cultural domain social stigma against hiv/aids, gender specific vulnerabilities, distorted images and false info circulated, stigmatization of homosexuality and sex workers. This epidemic unfortunately remains an epidemic of women (michel disibe, ed of unaids: women"s disproportionate vulnerabilities to hiv/aids. In 2016, new infection among young women 15-24 were 44% higher than men their age.