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Ancestors and antiretrovirals: the biopolitics of HIV/AIDS in post-apartheid South Africa and breaking the Silence: South African representations of HIV/AIDS

Author: Hodes, Rebecca Date: 2014 In the vast corpus of academic writing about HIV/AIDS in South Africa, now entering its fifth decade, generational shifts are perceptible. In the earliest texts, scholars in the global North grappled with the medical and social meanings of a ... Read more
The antiretroviral moratorium in the Free State Province of South Africa: Contributing factors and implications

Author: Hodes, Rebecca ; Grimsrud, Anna Date: 2011 In November 2008, a moratorium on initiating new patients onto antiretroviral (ARV) treatment was enacted by the Provincial Department of Health in the Free State province of South Africa. The moratorium, which was part of a series of cost ... Read more
Causes and implications of the 2008/2009 Antiretroviral moratorium in the Free State province of South Africa

Author: Hodes, Rebecca ; Grimsrud, Anna Date: 2010 In November 2008, a moratorium on initiating new patients onto antiretrovirals was enacted by the provincial Department of Health in the Free State. This paper examines the causes and implications of the Free State antiretroviral moratorium ... Read more c b n d
Ezobudoda (manhood things) a qualitative study of HIV-positive adolescent boys and young mens health practices in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa

Author: Gittings, Lesley Blinn Date: 2019 Men are less vulnerable to HIV acquisition than women, but have poorer HIV-related outcomes. They access HIV services less often and later, and are more likely to die while on antiretroviral therapy (ART). The adolescent HIV epidemic presents ... Read more
From manual to makeshift: the practice of community health work in Wallacedene and Bloekombos informal settlements

Author: Vale, Beth Date: 2012 This thesis investigates community health workers' negotiation between the prescribed 'manual' for care and the lived realities of their field, exploring how prescriptions of public health are reappropriated through the micro-politics of ... Read more
'Kink' and the colony: sexual deviance in the medical history of South Africa

Author: Hodes, Rebecca Date: 2014 rom the late 19th century onwards, in keeping with the rise of modern medical specialisations, sex was established as a legitimate subject of scientific enquiry. Public interest in sexual health at the Cape was fuelled in part by the panic ... Read more
The Making of South Africa's Sexual Offences Act (2007): Structure and Agency in a Women's Rights Coalition

Author: Hodes, Rebecca Date: 2011 How do women's rights groups campaign for institutional change to reform archaic rape laws in transitional democracies? This article presents the findings from a case study of a coalition of women's rights and legal advocacy organisations in ... Read more
The Medical History of Abortion in South Africa, c.1970– 2000

Author: Hodes, Rebecca Date: 2013 This article explores the medical history of abortion in South Africa during the last three decades of the twentieth century, focusing on the role played by doctors in their clinical encounters with abortion patients. It also examines doctors’ ... Read more
Piloting ART in South Africa: the role of partnerships in the Western Cape's provincial roll-out

Author: Hodes, Rebecca ; Naimak, Trude Holm Date: 2011 In 1999, the provincial government of the Western Cape entered into a partnership with M?decins Sans Fronti?res (MSF) to provide HIV treatment through public health clinics in the peri-urban settlement of Khayelitsha. From 2000 onwards, this ... Read more
South African Social Science in the Global HIV/AIDS Knowledge Domain

Author: Hodes, Rebecca ; Morrell, Robert Date: Jul 2016 Research about HIV constitutes a global domain of academic knowledge. This domain is dominated by biomedicine, and by institutions and funders based in the ‘global North’. However, from the earliest years of the epidemic, African investigators ... Read more c b n d
Structure and Agency in the Politics of a Women's Rights Coalition in South Africa: The Making of the South African Sexual Offences Act, 2007

Author: Hodes, Rebecca ; Thorpe, Jennifer ; Stern, Orly Date: 2011 How do women’s rights groups campaign for vital institutional reform of archaic laws on sexual violence in new democracies? How can they best ‘work politically’ to achieve positive outcomes? What lessons are there for donors and supporters? ... Read more
Televising Treatment: The Political Struggle for Antiretrovirals on South African Television

Author: Hodes, Rebecca Date: 2010 Siyayinqoba/Beat It!</em> is an activist-aligned television programme first broadcast on South African national television in 1999. This article documents how Beat It! used the educative power of television to demystify HIV treatment and ... Read more
Too many rights? Reproductive freedom in post-apartheid South Africa

Author: Hodes, Rebecca Date: Apr 2017 In this article, I explore contestations over the legislation and enactment of reproductive rights in South Africa. I argue that the public disapprobation surrounding teenage pregnancy relates, in complex ways, to broader suspicions about ... Read more c b