Gender and reproductive decision making among couples with HIV/AIDS in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
| dc.contributor.author | Ndlovu, Vezumuzi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-06T11:56:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-06T11:56:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-06T11:54:32Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Gender, the culturally constructed social relations between men and women, plays an important role in determining not only the role and place of both sexes in society but also impacts the distribution of power between the sexes. Men, especially in patriarchal settings, have been observed to dominate women economically, politically and even sexually. Thus men generally exercise power over women. This article explores the impact of gender on reproductive and sexual decision-making among couples with HIV/AIDS. It discusses the decision-making process itself and then examines how gender and the exercise of power influence the decisions or choices made by these couples. Based on a sample of HIV-positive couples from Bulawayo (Zimbabwe), an important observation that this paper makes concerns the lack of male dominance in decision-making among these couples. This is explained in terms of high level of HIV/AIDS awareness among the study sample, the high cost of parental investment to women as well as the behavioural change necessitated by an HIVpositive diagnosis. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Ndlovu, V. (2006). <i>Gender and reproductive decision making among couples with HIV/AIDS in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19488 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Ndlovu, Vezumuzi <i>Gender and reproductive decision making among couples with HIV/AIDS in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19488 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ndlovu, V. (2006). Gender and Reproductive Decision-making Among Couples with HIV/AIDS in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Ndlovu, Vezumuzi AB - Gender, the culturally constructed social relations between men and women, plays an important role in determining not only the role and place of both sexes in society but also impacts the distribution of power between the sexes. Men, especially in patriarchal settings, have been observed to dominate women economically, politically and even sexually. Thus men generally exercise power over women. This article explores the impact of gender on reproductive and sexual decision-making among couples with HIV/AIDS. It discusses the decision-making process itself and then examines how gender and the exercise of power influence the decisions or choices made by these couples. Based on a sample of HIV-positive couples from Bulawayo (Zimbabwe), an important observation that this paper makes concerns the lack of male dominance in decision-making among these couples. This is explained in terms of high level of HIV/AIDS awareness among the study sample, the high cost of parental investment to women as well as the behavioural change necessitated by an HIVpositive diagnosis. DA - 2006 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Centre for Social Science Research LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2006 T1 - Gender and reproductive decision making among couples with HIV/AIDS in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe TI - Gender and reproductive decision making among couples with HIV/AIDS in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19488 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19488 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Ndlovu V. Gender and reproductive decision making among couples with HIV/AIDS in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. 2006 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19488 | 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 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.source | Centre for Social Science Research | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/ | |
| dc.subject.other | Gender | |
| dc.subject.other | Reproduction | |
| dc.subject.other | HIV/AIDS | |
| dc.subject.other | Zimbabwe | |
| dc.title | Gender and reproductive decision making among couples with HIV/AIDS in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |