Collection: Research Review (New Series) / Language: English - Arab Americans and the Automobile: Voices from the Factory

91. Gender and traditional authority in the artisanal marine fishing industry in Ghana

Date Issued:: 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
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92. Notes on contritbutors

Date Issued:: 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Research Review (New Series)

93. A new look at the funding of local government in Ghana

Date Issued:: 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
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94. Conjugal morality and sexual vulnerability

Description:: The Ellembelle believe that the institution of marriage is sacred and must also endure. In this respect, the proprietary rights of husband and wife must be protected hence the fashioning out of a conjugal code. The code delineates acceptable sexual behaviour, parenting and domestic responsibilities among others. The conjugal code eschews lasciviousness in both males and females, even though men in some respects get off lightly when they have multiple sexual partners. It is known that certain risk factors and traditional practices may facilitate the spread of STD's including HIV. Some of these factors are: Permissibility of sex among people who intend to marry, the polygynous nature of Ellembelle society, widowhood rites that warrant the widow to sleep with a virtual stranger after her statutory period of mourning, migrant women who sojourn in Franzie (La Cote d’lvoire) coming back home to their lovers etc. and above all the poor condom culture in Ellembelle. Available evidence shows that AIDS in Ellembelle is real and until recently, female sojourners in Abidjan who return home terminally ill and die were believed to be accursed. In the light of knowledge on HIV/AIDS, the "accursed reason" needs to be properly analysed to establish the link between the risky behaviours of these migrant women and HIV/AIDS. This paper discusses conjugal morality as perceived by the Ellembelle Nzema of Western Ghana. It also examines human actions that constitute a breach of the conjugal code. The section on sexual vulnerability and the transmission of death is an attempt to portray how traditional and current sexual practices predispose people to Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) including HIV/AIDS. The final section deals with an analysis of HIV reported data from Eikwe Hospital in the Nzema East District of the Western region.
Date Issued:: 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
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95. Social dynamics and infant feeding practices in Northern Ghana

Description:: Infant feeding practices have been identified as one of the major determinants of children's nutritional status and account to a large extent for the high rates of malnutrition among children in Ghana. The relationship between breastfeeding and especially exclusive breastfeeding and child health and birth spacing in developing countries is well documented. However for the age group 0 -6 months, although breastfeeding i s widely practiced in Ghana, studies indicate that only 8% of children under 4 months are exclusively breastfed and 45% are given some form of supplementary feeding by age three months. Despite efforts of Health Workers to increase the percentage of exclusively breastfed babies, not much success has been achieved, because feeding practices are often difficult to change as they are directly related to varied economic, socio-cultural and religious factors in the community and to various dynamics prevailing at the household level. Employing mainly qualitative research methods, this paper examines infant feeding practices of women with children 0-6 months in two areas in the Bawku East District of Ghana and analyses the role of socio-cultural factors, household and gender dynamics as determinants of infant feeding practices and child nutrition. It argues that the existence of beliefs and value systems especially with regard to the cultural administration of water is central to conflicts with exclusive breastfeeding recommendations of WHO and UNICEF. The paper recommends that policies that seek to improve infant and child health status in developing countries, must recognise and understand the broad complex of dynamics operating at the household and community level affecting feeding behaviour. It also requires that women's knowledge and perceptions on infant feeding are recognised and valued to ensure sustained changes.
Date Issued:: 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Research Review (New Series)