Peer educators’ responses to mistrust and confusion about HIV and AIDS science in Khayelitsha, South Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Rubincam, Clara | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | South Africa ; Western Cape ; Khayelitshs | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-01T08:51:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-10-01T08:51:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-08-30 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Peer educators are on the front lines of communication between sources of scientific authority about HIV and AIDS and target populations. This study focuses on a group of peer educators from the Treatment Action Campaign working in Khayelitsha, South Africa (n=20), highlighting perceptions of their treatment literacy activities and the challenges faced in these encounters. In order to maintain clients’ trust in themselves and their information about HIV, they employ various “rhetorics of persuasion”, including accurate mobilisation of biomedical facts, personal testimonies, and figurative language such as parables and metaphors. These tactics build on community members’ everyday observations and experiences and draw from peer educators’ own credibility and trustworthiness as TAC members, and as members of the community. This paper draws attention to the ways in which peer educators’ personal agency and judgement are brought to the task of peer education, as well as the implications for future programmes using treatment literacy to advocate on behalf of biomedical facts about HIV and AIDS. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Rubincam, C. (2014). <i>Peer educators’ responses to mistrust and confusion about HIV and AIDS science in Khayelitsha, South Africa</i> (CSSR Working Paper Series ; 353). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Aids and Society Research Unit. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7879 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Rubincam, Clara <i>Peer educators’ responses to mistrust and confusion about HIV and AIDS science in Khayelitsha, South Africa.</i> CSSR Working Paper Series ; 353. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Aids and Society Research Unit, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7879 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Rubincam, C. Peer educators’ responses to mistrust and confusion about HIV and AIDS science in Khayelitsha, South Africa. CSSR Working Paper No. 343. Cape Town: Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-77011-330-5 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Rubincam, Clara AB - Peer educators are on the front lines of communication between sources of scientific authority about HIV and AIDS and target populations. This study focuses on a group of peer educators from the Treatment Action Campaign working in Khayelitsha, South Africa (n=20), highlighting perceptions of their treatment literacy activities and the challenges faced in these encounters. In order to maintain clients’ trust in themselves and their information about HIV, they employ various “rhetorics of persuasion”, including accurate mobilisation of biomedical facts, personal testimonies, and figurative language such as parables and metaphors. These tactics build on community members’ everyday observations and experiences and draw from peer educators’ own credibility and trustworthiness as TAC members, and as members of the community. This paper draws attention to the ways in which peer educators’ personal agency and judgement are brought to the task of peer education, as well as the implications for future programmes using treatment literacy to advocate on behalf of biomedical facts about HIV and AIDS. DA - 2014-08-30 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Treatment Action Campaign KW - HIV infections KW - AIDS (Disease) LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 SM - 978-1-77011-330-5 T1 - Peer educators’ responses to mistrust and confusion about HIV and AIDS science in Khayelitsha, South Africa TI - Peer educators’ responses to mistrust and confusion about HIV and AIDS science in Khayelitsha, South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7879 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7879 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Rubincam C. Peer educators’ responses to mistrust and confusion about HIV and AIDS science in Khayelitsha, South Africa. 2014 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7879 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Aids and Society Research Unit | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | CSSR Working Paper Series ; 353 | en_ZA |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
| dc.subject | Treatment Action Campaign | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | HIV infections | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | AIDS (Disease) | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Peer educators’ responses to mistrust and confusion about HIV and AIDS science in Khayelitsha, South Africa | 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 | Working paper | en_ZA |