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- This paper discusses social stigma in the context of disability in general and mental health in particular, and the impact of stigma on the employment prospects of those who are defined as mentally sick or are ex-mental patients. The roots of stigma, and how stigma can be countered in society in an effort to promote successful rehabilitation, are also discussed.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Janet Henshall Momsen. Women and development in the Third World. London: Routledge, 1991
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- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- The AIDS pandemic knows no skin colour, race, creed, tribe or age, hence it can affect/infect anyone, including vulnerable children.While the AIDS awareness campaign has reached various target groups, it seems one particular group, the street children, has apparently not been reached, largely because of the elusive nature of this group. Conventional approaches have clearly failed to work with this target group. The difficulties experienced in attempts to reach this high risk group demand that alternative strategies to promoting HIV/AIDS awareness be pursued. This article makes a call for an alternative strategy that is deliberately imaginative and innovative. It makes a case for the peer education strategy as a model for disseminating AIDS education and awareness among street children. It highlights the basic clements of the strategy and argues that the model has potential for success, particularly given that it involves use of people who understand the situation on the streets.
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- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- The respondents discussed in this article depended on food vending as their main source of income. Th succeed in this activity requires shrewd marketing and hard work. For the majority food vending was basically a hanging on and coping strategy, offering very limited surplus for investment. Food vending allowed them merely to stay in town while maintaining a foot in their home villages. The paper presents both a descriptive and an analytical account of food vending activities by female heads of households in Masvingo. The officially imposed constraints onfood ven,ding demonstrate the existence of competing and conflicting rationalities between male decisionmakers and poor women. The 1:nter-connections between food vendors and theformal markets are noted.
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- 2000-07-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- The number of women in prison in Botswana has grown over the past ten years. This is due, in large part, to rising numbers of women offenders admitted to prison for property and drug-related offences. The purpose of the study presented here was to assess the relationship between their life events and the subsequent offending of incarcerated women. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 80 women inmates at six prisons in Botswana in 1997. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, respondents were asked about their backgrounds, criminal histories and relationships with significant others, together with the reasons for their current offending. Results show that women in prison are predominately poor, young and uneducated, who report high levels of victimization, substance abuse, familial disruption and high-risk behaviour and suffer from a host of physical and mental disorders. High rates of child and ad.ult abuse, neglect and abandanment were also reported. These histories were strong predictors of poor physical and mental health. The findings of this study force us to examine the interplay of the cultural, ideological and structural factors affecting womens lives from a gender, class and relational analysis. This paper ends with a discussion on the findings of the study, under themes that emerged with specific reference to lifetime socialization for gender roles and the structural perspective of deprivation, stress, victimization and survivorship.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement for journal Studies in comparative international development
- Date Issued:
- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: H.W. van der Merwe. Pursuing justice and peace in South Africa. London: Routledge, 1989
- Date Issued:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Tiyambe Zeleza. Smouldering charcoal. London: Heinemann, 1992
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- This paper discusses the provision offinancial relief to members' households by women-centred local institutions known as burial societies (diswaeti) in the event of death. In burial societies, mortality occupies the centre stage, not as afinal defeat of human effort but as an inspiration for individual and collective responsibility. The omnipresence of death and dying in Botswana (due to the AIDS pandemic, social victimization, road-related carnage and so on), does not necessarily precipitate despondency; instead it underwrites commitments by members of burial societies to new sensibilities and to imaginative interventions that regenerate, rather than wear out, kin relations. By providing emergency financial and non-financial support, burial societies find practical ways to minimize social tensions and reduce animosity between individuals, family and kin relations. In the burial society community therefore, the social process of providing emergency financial and non-financial relief is more than an instrumental task: it is a nuanced cultural process that redefines kin' and family social relations.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa