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- Date Issued:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- This paper describes the intensifying AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, and identifies a range of emergent needs in this connection. It examines existing social work involvement in AIDS and finds that social workers in Africa are currently considerably under utilised in this field. The paper explores potential social work roles and argues for the inclusion of AIDS issues in all social work training, and for closer coordination between medical and social aspects of care, to engage social workers and others in meeting growing needs more effectively. The author argues for the mobilisation of widespread community resourcesfor the prevention of HIV, to provide support for people with HIV or AIDS and their families, and to recognise AIDS as a critical development issue demanding an urgent response.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: D.G. Fisher (ed). AIDS and alcohol/drug abuse. London: Haworth Press, 1991
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Poverty alleviation has become a dominant strategy of much of the aid of international donors to countries in sub-Saharan Africa Such strategies are seen I as the principal weapon of attacking the endemic poverty which plagues the lives of many of the region's people. However many of these donors are using their support for poverty alleviation as a means of "democratising" supposedly undemocratic states and of promoting a more widespread and genuine participation of the region's poor!n development initiatives and activities. This article explores the experiences to date of poverty alleviation strategies in several sub-Saharan countries which have been built on participatory principles and which seek to get to the root cause of people's poverty. The article reviews the concept of participation in both an economic and a political sense and draws up a balance sheet of the current state of play.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement for the worksop to be held during the International Association for Community Development Conference
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- It is now accepted that past and current development strategies among Basarwa communities in Botswana have been unable to satisfactorily achieve the objectives of improving incomes, employment and general quality of life. While these objectives remain of critical importance, there is an urgent need to determine more effective ways that can make them realisable. Basing its argument on the original objectives of the Remote Area Development Programme (RADP), this paper suggests the need for modification and application of new alternative strategies to suit the prevailing circumstances of the Basarwa. From its inception, RADP has been criticised, mainly on the grounds that it has been undertaken by the government with only limited community involvement This has contributed to a dependency on government support rather than to a momentum of self-standing, sustainable improvements (Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, 1997). Community Economic Development (CED) proposed in this paper draws lessons from general failures of RADP and bUilds on its itrengths. Its main argument is that it is necessary to continually review approaches to development of Basarwa communities with a view to overcoming past short-comings and establishing more effective strategies for the future.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Since dying and bereavement are basic to the human condition, all societies have developed ways of providing support for those undergoing these experiences of loss. However, the emergence of the hospice movement marks the beginning of the provision of organisational support beyond that traditionally supplied within the family and friendship network Zimbabwe presents an interesting situation whereby traditional support systems function side by side with newer voluntary organisations providing services for the dying and bereaved, mainly within the white community but also, increasingly, to those black Zimbabweans in a state of transition between rural and urban life. Both traditional and organisational support systems are analysed with particular emphasis on the 'holistic' approach being practised by two voluntary organisations in Zimbabwe. Holistic care manifests several new features, which distinguish it from that provided in more orthodox western medical settings, and which, actually, converge with traditional African approaches. A brief review of problems being experienced by bereaved and dying people receiving assistance reveals that in the changing social conditions in present day Zimbabwe there is potential for useful crosscultural fertilisation in approaches to die care of those experiencing loss and some suggestions are made to this end.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Advertisement for book: Socialism, education and development
- Date Issued:
- 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa