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Experiences of HIV/AIDS diagnosis, disclosure and stigma in an urban informal settlement in the Cape Peninsula: A qualitative exploration

Author: Kahn, Lauren Date: 2004 This paper explores the personal experiences of five HIV positive individuals situated in an urban, informal settlement in Cape Town, South Africa. In-depth interviews and a focus group were conducted and analysed to facilitate an integrated ... Read more
Growing up in the new South Africa: childhood and adolescence in post-apartheid Cape Town

Author: Bray, Rachel ; Gooskens, Imke ; Moses, Sue ; Kahn, Lauren ; Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2011 How has the end of apartheid affected the experiences of South African children and adolescents? This pioneering study provides a compelling account of the realities of everyday life for the first generation of children and adolescents growing ... Read more c b n
Narratives of sexual abstinence: A qualitative study of female adolescents in a Cape Town community

Author: Kahn, Lauren Date: 2005 Abstinence from sexual intercourse is the ‘A’ in the ‘ABC’ of mainstream interventions to address HIV/AIDS in South Africa. These interventions have been informed by social cognitive mode ls of sexual behaviour that emphasise the individual ... Read more
Narratives of sexual abstinence: A qualitative study of female adolescents in a Cape Town community

Author: Kahn, Lauren Date: 2006 Abstinence from sexual intercourse is the ‘A’ in the ‘ABC’ of mainstream interventions to address HIV/AIDS in South Africa. These interventions have been informed by social cognitive mode ls of sexual behaviour that emphasise the individual ... Read more
Playing the 'love game': Sexual decision-making amongst African girls in a Cape Town community

Author: Kahn, Lauren Date: 2007 Drawing upon critical health and discursive psychology, the study explores the sexual decision-making of 8 sexually-active high school girls, aged 17 to 19 years, living in Masiphumelele, a poor African community in Cape Town, South African. ... Read more c b n d
Sexual abstinence: A qualitative study of White, English-speaking girls in a Cape Town community

Author: Kahn, Lauren Date: 2007 This paper explores decision-making around sexual abstinence among white, English-speaking adolescent girls in Fish Hoek, a middle-class neighbourhood in Cape Town, South Africa. The girls participated in a focus group and 1-2 individual, ... Read more c b n d
Sexual subjects : a feminist post-structuralist analysis of female adolescent sexual subjectivity and agency

Author: Kahn, Lauren Date: 2008 Research and intervention into female adolescent sexual health in the context of HIV/AIDS have been dominated by individualistic, cognitive perspectives, which present sexuality as a site of rational, individual choice and agency. A paradigm ... Read more