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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-2-12
pubmed:abstractText
This paper compares three interpretations of women and the transmission of HIV in rural Malawi. One is disseminated world-wide by institutions with a global reach such as the World Health Organization in Geneva and United States Agency for International Development (USAID); the second is provided by urban Malawians situated in the capital of Lilongwe, the seat of government and the site of the many international and national non-governmental agencies; the third is articulated by rural women and men in Balaka District, Malawi. We focus on women's motivations for extramarital sex, using qualitative interview data. We find that whereas in Geneva and Lilongwe women from rural Malawi are said to engage in sexual relationships outside of marriage because they need money for survival, in Balaka they are said to be motivated not only by money for survival but also for attractive consumer goods as well as by passion and by revenge for a husband's infidelity. We also find that data collection procedures influence explanations for women's affairs, as does the respondent's gender. An implication of this study is that AIDS-prevention policies based on the view from Geneva and Lilongwe need modification for Balaka, and by implication for rural Africa more generally.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0277-9536
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
64
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1090-101
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17123678-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-Cross-Cultural Comparison, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-Data Collection, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-Extramarital Relations, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-Female, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-HIV Infections, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-Interviews as Topic, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-Malawi, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-Male, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-Motivation, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-Reproducibility of Results, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-Rural Population, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-Sexual Behavior, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-Social Environment, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-Spouses, pubmed-meshheading:17123678-World Health Organization
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Sex in Geneva, sex in Lilongwe, and sex in Balaka.
pubmed:affiliation
Management Sciences for Health Arlington, VA22203-1627, USA. ltawfik@msh.org
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study