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| Abstract #595 - E-Posters English | ||||
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Session: 50.35: E-Posters English (Poster) on Sunday in Chaired by Authors: Presenting Author: Mrs Monanana Mminele - Remote Rural Women's Club, South Africa |
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| Additional Authors: Dr. Jordi Casabona, Sra Cristina Sanclemente, Dra. Anna Esteve, Dra. Victoria Gonzalez, Grupo HIVITS TS, | ||||
| Aim: ABSTRACT-2013-05-09 NARRATIVES AND HIV&AIDS Aim -In this paper, I explore the importance and functions of narratives as a tool for data collection in HIV/AIDS and TB understanding research methods. are applied in data collection Qualitative Research method used formal and informal interviews that are coupled with observation. | ||||
| Method / Issue: ABSTRACT-2013-05-09 NARRATIVES AND HIV&AIDS Observation and Qualitative Research method used formal and informal interviews. ISSUES The following points indicate the relationship of my story and the stories of other five disempowered women. ? When lobola and marriage concerning their daughters are discussed by males in the absence of females. Nothing concerning the good health of the opposite sex.. ? Not to talk about sexually transmitted diseases (STD?s). In African culture, it is taboo to discuss sexual matters since they are taken to be sacred. The same goes for asking about men?s sexual illnesses or any disease like the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). ? If a husband divorces a woman and then dies, the divorced woman is forced to mourn his passing by wearing mourning or black attire, to make arrangements for a new husband irrespective of his HIV/AIDS status. | ||||
| Results / Comments: : This environment could be created by community education to promote Deliberative Democracy (Young 2000: 16 and 22). Waghid (2003:185) stated that, the deliberative democracy can be cultivated as a form of citizenship necessary to lay the foundations for a communitarianism of the left which requires of citizens. According to Allen (1990:552) I use my reason and argument in search of the truth and knowledge of reality including the implication of HIV/AIDS. LESSON LEARNED:Knowledge comes from education. Our former president Nelson Mandela once said: ?Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world?. Empowerment means giving women the responsibility and authority to make decisions regarding all aspects in their daily lives-HIV&AIDS included. Iris Marion Young(2000),Clandinin and Connelly(2000), Seyla Benhabib (2001), Martha Nussbaum (2001), Eamonn Callan(2001), Ammy Guttman, Kate Brown and Stephen Fairbrass(2009); David M. Boje (1991;2008), Fay (1999), Kaniye Ebeku (2006), Babbie and Mouton (2001); Gyekye Kwame, Elliot, Jane (2005);N?dri T. Assié-Lumumba(2007), J. Hyslop, Yusef Waghid (2005:76-85) ; 2010:19-31;77-147; 2011:8-13.Marshall et.al (2006) | ||||
| Discussion: According to Clandinin and Connelly (2000:18) narratives play an important role in helping to represent and understand the experiences that we study. This dissertation is a self-narrative (personal story) and my encounters with five other women who had similar social ills. Elliot (2005:3-4) said, narratives are giving us a helpful framework in critical inquiry for the current discussion and, stress three key features of narratives. The specific audience is me and other excluded women in the rural areas of Greater Sekhukhuneland in Limpopo province. Boje (1991:7) indicates the story dynamics comes to play because there are so many pasts presents (nows) and futures (Boje, 2008). A story ?an oral or written performance involving two or more people interpreting past or anticipated experience (Boje 1991:111). Quoting Young (2000:53 and 70-80), she explains many functions of narratives that counter exclusive tendencies and further argument. | ||||
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