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133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA |
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5067.0: Wednesday, December 14, 2005: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | |||
Oral | |||
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For many women around the world, their greatest risk of HIV infection comes from marital sex. In this multi-site comparative ethnographic study, five anthropologists returned to their long-term research sites in countries at different stages of the epidemic (nascent: Papua New Guinea; concentrated: Mexico and Vietnam; disseminated: Uganda and Nigeria) to explore how gender inequality combines with social stratification, labor migration,, and emerging ideals of romance to shape married women’s risk of HIV infection. Using Marital Case Studies, Key Informants Interview, Participant Observation and Archival Research, researchers found that social, cultural and economic factors combine to make men’s extramarital sex the exception rather the rule. This paper, which will introduce the panel, will provide an overview of the study methods, present comparative ethnography as a methodological strategy to enhance the generalizability and policy-relevance of qualitative data, and discuss the implications of study findings for the creation of evidence-based policy to prevent heterosexual HIV transmission. | |||
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this panel, audience members should be able to: articulate how social, economic, and cultural factors intertwine to shape married women's HIV risk in five different countries. | |||
Jennifer S. Hirsch, PhD | |||
Love, Marriage and HIV Summary and recommendations Jennifer S. Hirsch, PhD, Shanti Parikh, PhD, Harriet M. Phinney, PhD, MPH, Daniel Smith, PhD, MPH, Holly Wardlow, PhD, MPH | |||
Love, Marriage and HIV: A Multi-site Study of Gender and HIV Risk Jennifer S. Hirsch, PhD | |||
‘You get tired of eating beans every day’: Social, cultural and economic aspects of married women’s HIV risk in rural Mexico Jennifer S. Hirsch, PhD | |||
‘Rice is essential but tiresome, you should get some noodles’: Social, cultural and economic aspects of married women’s HIV risk in Ha Noi, Viet Nam Harriet M. Phinney, PhD, MPH, Minh Huu Nguyen, PhD | |||
Modern marriage, extramarital sex, and HIV risk in southeastern Nigeria Daniel Jordan Smith, PhD, MPH | |||
‘Be faithful’: Cultural, social, and economic contradictions of the ABC message and married women’s HIV risk in Uganda Shanti Parikh, PhD | |||
“There is nothing to fence us in”: Men’s extramarital sex and married women’s HIV risk in rural Papua New Guinea Holly Wardlow, PhD, MPH | |||
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
Organized by: | Population, Family Planning, and Reproductive Health | ||
Endorsed by: | APHA-Committee on Women's Rights; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus; Women's Caucus | ||
CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing |
The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA