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- ItemOpen AccessAddressing the impact of HIV/AIDS on children in South Africa - Priorities for funders and development agencies(Children's Institute, 2004-03) Meintjes, Helen; Giese, SonjaThis briefing paper is structured into two parts. Part A provides a brief overview of orphan numbers and what we know about the living circumstances of children growing up in the context of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Part B of the paper provides a set of key recommendations to guide funders in responding to the impact of HIV/AIDS on children.
- ItemOpen Access'But where are our moral heroes?': An analysis of South African press reporting on children affected by HIV/AIDS(2005) Meintjes, Helen; Bray, RachelMessages conveyed both explicitly and implicitly in the media play an important role in the shaping of public understanding of issues, as well as associated policy, programme and popular responses to these issues. This paper applies discourse analysis to a series of articles on children affected by HIV/AIDS published in 2002/2003 in the English-medium South African press. The analysis reveals layer upon layer of moral messaging present in the reporting, the cumulative effect of which is the communication of a series of moral judgements about who is and who is not performing appropriate roles in relation to children. Discourses of moral transgression specifically on the part of African parents and ‘families’ for failing in their moral responsibilities towards their children coalesce with discourses of anticipated moral decay amongst (previously innocent) children who lack their due care. The need for moral regeneration amongst South Africans generally (but implicitly black South Africans) is contrasted with an accolade of (usually white) middle class individuals who have gone beyond their moral duty to respond. The paper argues that in each instance, the particular moralism is questionable in the light of both empirical evidence and principles of human dignity underlying our constitution. Children – and particularly ‘AIDS orphans’ – are shown to be presented as either the quintessential innocent victims of the epidemic or as potential delinquents. While journalists intentions when representing children in these ways are likely to be positive, the paper argues that this approach is employed at a cost, both in the public’s knowledge and attitudes around the impact of AIDS, and more importantly, in the lives of children affected by the epidemic.
- ItemOpen AccessThe challenge lies in implementing policy(Children's Institute, 2003) Giese, Sonja; Meintjes, Helen
- ItemOpen AccessChild protection and social security in the face of poverty and the AIDS pandemic: issues pertaining to the Children's Bill [B70-2003]: a fact sheet(Children's Institute, 2005-02) Meintjes, Helen; Van Niekerk, Joan
- ItemOpen AccessChild Protection Week 2003. Fact sheet No. 3: children and HIV/AIDS(Children's Institute, 2003-05) Giese, Sonja; Meintjes, Helen
- ItemOpen AccessChild-headed households in South Africa: A statistical brief 2009(Children's Institute, 2009) Meintjes, Helen; Hall, Katharine; Marera, Double-Hugh; Boulle, Andrew
- ItemOpen AccessChildren 'in need of care' or in need of cash? Questioning social security provisions for orphans in the context of the South African AIDS pandemic(Children's Institute, 2003-12) Meintjes, Helen; Budlender, Debbie; Giese, Sonja; Johnson, LeighJoint working paper of the Children's Institute and Centre for Actuarial Research, University of Cape Town.
- ItemOpen AccessChildren experiencing orphanhood - the role of the health sector(Children's Institute, 2003-08) Giese, Sonja; Meintjes, Helen; Croke, Rhian; Chamberlain, Ross
- ItemOpen AccessChildren's Institute submission on the draft regulations to the Children's Act 38 of 2005(Children's Institute, 2008-08) Proudlock, Paula; Meintjes, Helen; Moses, SueWritten submission to the national Department of Social Development, 11 August 2008.
- ItemOpen AccessConceptual framework for the identification, support and monitoring of orphans and other vulnerable children(Children's Institute, 2002-10) Wilson, Tanya; Giese, Sonja; Meintjes, Helen; Croke, Rhian; Chamberlain, Ross
- ItemOpen AccessExtending the Child Support Grant to children under 18 years: a fact sheet(Children's Institute, 2004-09) Rosa, Solange; Meintjes, HelenPrepared for the Alliance for Children's Entitlement to Social Security (ACESS).
- ItemOpen AccessHome truths: the phenomenon of residential care for children in a time of AIDS(Children's Institute, 2007-06) Meintjes, Helen; Moses, Sue; Berry, Lizette; Mampane, Ruth
- ItemOpen AccessOrphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS in South Africa: a fact sheet for Members of Parliament(Children's Institute, 2004) Giese, Sonja; Meintjes, HelenPrepared for the public hearings on Section 75 of the Children's Bill, August 2004.
- ItemOpen AccessPoverty, possessions and proper living : constructing and contesting propriety in Soweto and Lusaka City(2000) Meintjes, Helen; Spiegel, Mugsy; Frankental, SallyRecent material culture theory points out how material possessions are woven into the fabric of lives, shaping social relations and texturing people's meanings and interpretation of their world. This study embarks on exploring aspects of this objected fabric, in the context of urban working black South Africans, living in three different township suburbs in Gauteng, in four differing housing circumstances, in the mid-1990s and in the midst of much uncertainty of what the future might hold for poor urban residents. Drawing on participant observation, ethnographic interviews, and household and appliance ownership surveys, the study explores the ways in which domestic objects- appliances specifically - function symbolically for a set of people living in Soweto formal houses, backyard shacks, an informal settlement and in Lusaka City site-and -service settlement on the West Rand, in Gauteng, South Africa. I examine symbolic constructions and creations in these people's homes, gleaning some of the meaning people attributed to particular modes of equipping their homes, and how aspects of their image of themselves and each other were presented, acted out, created, 'conversationed', contested and negotiated through material goods.
- ItemOpen AccessRecommendations for health and social services to address the needs of orphans and other vulnerable children in the context of HIV/AIDS in South Africa(Children's Institute, 2003-04) Giese, Sonja; Meintjes, Helen; Croke, Rhian; Chamberlain, Ross
- ItemOpen AccessReporting on children in the context of HIV/AIDS: a journalist's resource(Children's Institute, 2005) Bird, William; Bray, Rachel; Harries, Gemma; Meintjes, Helen; Monson, Jo; Ridgard, Natalie
- ItemOpen AccessThe role of schools in addressing the needs of children made vulnerable in the context of HIV/AIDS(Children's Institute, 2003-07) Giese, Sonja; Meintjes, Helen; Croke, Rhian; Chamberlain, Ross
- ItemOpen AccessSocial security for children in the context of AIDS: questioning the State's response(Children's Institute, 2004-07) Meintjes, Helen; Budlender, Debbie; Giese, Sonja; Johnson, Leigh
- ItemOpen AccessSubmission from the Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, on residential care in the Children's Amendment Bill [B19B; - 2006](Children's Institute, 2007-08) Moses, Sue; Meintjes, HelenSubmitted to the parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Social Development, 8 August 2007.
- ItemOpen AccessSubmission to the Portfolio Committee on Social Development on the Social Assistance Bill with a special focus on meeting the needs of children in the context of HIV/AIDS(Children's Institute, 2003-09) Giese, Sonja; Meintjes, Helen