The influences of AIDS-related morbidity and mortality on change in urban households: An ethnographic study
| dc.contributor.author | Bray, Rachel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-10T10:17:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-10T10:17:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-10T10:15:44Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Drawing on qualitative panel data collected in a poor township on the edge of Cape Town, this paper provides a fine-grained analysis of the residential decision-making of five HIV positive women and some of their children. HIV status and illness are found to add to the pressures exerted by income and asset poverty in ways that further incline women to seek residential security for themselves and their children. The presence of HIV intensifies the mental health implications of pre-existing socio-economic burdens and efforts to respond to these. Much of the resultant mobility cannot therefore be considered AIDS specific. At the same time, being HIV positive and unwell (or anticipating illhealth) prompts women to organise particular domestic arrangements for themselves and their children. Previously non-resident children are moved from distant relatives to join the urban household, incurring financial and social strain on the domestic group and on infected women in particular. Infected mothers want to live with all their children so that they can nurture them, have opportunity to disclose and familiarise their children with the everyday implications of being positive and on treatment, and to ensure they have the skills to survive on their own should they themselves die. Such moves can be made without raising suspicion of HIV within the family because there is a well established pattern of moving teenagers from the Eastern Cape to schools in Masiphumelele for reasons of improving education. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Bray, R. (2008). <i>The influences of AIDS-related morbidity and mortality on change in urban households: An ethnographic study</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19550 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Bray, Rachel <i>The influences of AIDS-related morbidity and mortality on change in urban households: An ethnographic study.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19550 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Bray, R. (2008). The influences of AIDS-related morbidity and mortality on change in urban households: An ethnographic study. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Bray, Rachel AB - Drawing on qualitative panel data collected in a poor township on the edge of Cape Town, this paper provides a fine-grained analysis of the residential decision-making of five HIV positive women and some of their children. HIV status and illness are found to add to the pressures exerted by income and asset poverty in ways that further incline women to seek residential security for themselves and their children. The presence of HIV intensifies the mental health implications of pre-existing socio-economic burdens and efforts to respond to these. Much of the resultant mobility cannot therefore be considered AIDS specific. At the same time, being HIV positive and unwell (or anticipating illhealth) prompts women to organise particular domestic arrangements for themselves and their children. Previously non-resident children are moved from distant relatives to join the urban household, incurring financial and social strain on the domestic group and on infected women in particular. Infected mothers want to live with all their children so that they can nurture them, have opportunity to disclose and familiarise their children with the everyday implications of being positive and on treatment, and to ensure they have the skills to survive on their own should they themselves die. Such moves can be made without raising suspicion of HIV within the family because there is a well established pattern of moving teenagers from the Eastern Cape to schools in Masiphumelele for reasons of improving education. DA - 2008 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 - 2008 T1 - The influences of AIDS-related morbidity and mortality on change in urban households: An ethnographic study TI - The influences of AIDS-related morbidity and mortality on change in urban households: An ethnographic study UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19550 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19550 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Bray R. The influences of AIDS-related morbidity and mortality on change in urban households: An ethnographic study. 2008 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19550 | 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.source | Centre for Social Science Research | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za | |
| dc.subject.other | morbidity | |
| dc.subject.other | mortality | |
| dc.subject.other | HIV/AIDS | |
| dc.title | The influences of AIDS-related morbidity and mortality on change in urban households: An ethnographic study | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |