Body perceptions of HIV and AIDS: the memory Box Project
dc.contributor.author | Vasquez, Gioconda | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-25T09:53:51Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-04-25T09:53:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
dc.date.updated | 2016-04-25T09:45:37Z | |
dc.description.abstract | In South Africa, nearly fifteen per cent of the population is HIV positive and its impacts go beyond the disease itself. Biomedical treatment can be effective in reducing the physical effects of the disease, but does not deal with these wider issues, or with the body perceptions of the clients. This leads to their disempowerment, which is evident in the dealings that clients have with medical practitioners and the high levels of non-adherence to treatment. Re-appropriation of their bodies - through the use of tools, including body mapping and personal narratives - can offer a way of empowering those who have been stigmatised and isolated. This paper explores these issues through the body perceptions of and responses to HIV and AIDS of a group of women from Khayelitsha, near Cape Town. This work is based mainly on testimonies of participants in the Memory Box Project run by the AIDS and Society Research Unit at the University of Cape Town.? These testimonies were collected by Jonathan Morgan (the Director of the Memory Box Project) and Kylie Thomas. A group of poor HIV positive women show how this process can work but also, how the effects may in the long run, be ambiguous. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.apacitation | Vasquez, G. (2004). <i>Body perceptions of HIV and AIDS: the memory Box Project</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19177 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Vasquez, Gioconda <i>Body perceptions of HIV and AIDS: the memory Box Project.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19177 | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.citation | Vasquez, G. (2004). Body perceptions of HIV and AIDS: the memory box project. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Vasquez, Gioconda AB - In South Africa, nearly fifteen per cent of the population is HIV positive and its impacts go beyond the disease itself. Biomedical treatment can be effective in reducing the physical effects of the disease, but does not deal with these wider issues, or with the body perceptions of the clients. This leads to their disempowerment, which is evident in the dealings that clients have with medical practitioners and the high levels of non-adherence to treatment. Re-appropriation of their bodies - through the use of tools, including body mapping and personal narratives - can offer a way of empowering those who have been stigmatised and isolated. This paper explores these issues through the body perceptions of and responses to HIV and AIDS of a group of women from Khayelitsha, near Cape Town. This work is based mainly on testimonies of participants in the Memory Box Project run by the AIDS and Society Research Unit at the University of Cape Town.? These testimonies were collected by Jonathan Morgan (the Director of the Memory Box Project) and Kylie Thomas. A group of poor HIV positive women show how this process can work but also, how the effects may in the long run, be ambiguous. DA - 2004 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2004 T1 - Body perceptions of HIV and AIDS: the memory Box Project TI - Body perceptions of HIV and AIDS: the memory Box Project UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19177 ER - | en_ZA |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19177 | |
dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Vasquez G. Body perceptions of HIV and AIDS: the memory Box Project. 2004 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19177 | en_ZA |
dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. | |
dc.title | Body perceptions of HIV and AIDS: the memory Box Project | en_ZA |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
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uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |