Between 'block course relationships < em >'< /em > and abstinence: cultures of sexuality among students at Addis Ababa University
Cult Health Sex. 2024 Feb 5:1-15. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2307435. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTInspired by African and other feminist scholarship on gender, sexuality and agency, this article studies narrations of norms and practices in sexual relationships between university students. A main aim of the article is to move beyond the problem focus in earlier scholarship on women, sexuality and reproduction, and to identify potential spaces of freedom and expansion of female agency. The article is based on qualitative research conducted with students at Addis Ababa University. The findings a vivid space for male-female ...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Mulumebet Zenebe Haldis Haukanes Astrid Blystad Source Type: research
Unintended pregnancies in the lives of young people in Luwero, Uganda: a narrative analysis
Cult Health Sex. 2024 Feb 5:1-16. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2305820. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTUsing a feminist narrative approach, this article explores how unintended pregnancy can rupture young lives, and how young people respond to and navigate these ruptures. We analyse qualitative data from a longitudinal cohort study in Luwero, Uganda, focusing on narratives of a girl and a boy about their recent experiences of unintended and unwanted pregnancy during COVID-19 school closures. We argue that laws, policies and norms relating to education, sexual and reproductive health, and the family in Uganda position young pe...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jenny Parkes Simone Datzberger Rehema Nagawa Junior Brian Musenze Joan Ritar Kasidi Amiya Bhatia Dipak Naker Karen Devries Source Type: research
'You have a lot of mirrors': structural and socioecological factors impacting adolescent pregnancy and reproductive health in the Amazon basin, Peru, a qualitative study
This study investigated adolescent reproductive health within Loreto using an ecological systems framework. Forty-one semi-structured interviews were conducted in June 2022: community leaders (n = 12) and adolescent participants between 15 and 17 years of age (pregnant girls, n = 11; never pregnant girls, n = 9; and boys, n = 9). We also conducted focus group discussions with community health workers and educators in October 2022 (three focus groups, n = 15). Adolescent reproductive health is complex with multi-layered factors that put girls at higher risk of pregnancy. We found a paradoxical relationship between expected ...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - February 5, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lisa Labita Woodson Adriana Garcia Saldivar Heidi E Brown Priscilla A Magrath Leslie V Farland Magaly M Blas Purnima Madhivanan Source Type: research
'Parents are gudlists!' Experiences of puberty and parent-child sexual communication in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Cult Health Sex. 2024 Feb 1:1-20. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2306228. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis paper explores young people's experiences of puberty and their perspectives on parent-child sexual communication in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal. In-depth individual interviews, focus group discussions, and participatory visual research methodology were employed with 18 and 19-year-old young women (n = 30) and young men (n = 16) attending three primary health care facilities and a local high school in Jozini municipality. The findings suggest a complex interplay between unequal gender and socio-cultural norms that resul...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - February 1, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nompumelelo Gloria Mfeka-Nkabinde Relebohile Moletsane Anna Voce Source Type: research
Addressing sexual health concerns in Tanzania: perceived barriers among healthcare professionals and students in the "training for health professionals" study
This study examined healthcare professionals' perspectives on the barriers to addressing sexual health concerns in practice. In June 2019, we conducted an exploratory qualitative study involving 18 focus group discussions among healthcare professionals (n = 60) and students (n = 61) in the health professions (midwifery, nursing, medicine) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Study participants and design were purposively selected and stratified. We used a focus group discussion guide in Kiswahili. Data were transcribed in Kiswahili and translated into English. A thematic analysis approach was used for data analysis. Two themes were...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - January 29, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Agnes F Massae Lucy R Mgopa Zobeida E Bonilla Inari Mohammed B R Simon Rosser Stella E Mushy Michael W Ross Dorkasi L Mwakawanga Ever Mkonyi Gift G Lukumay James Wadley Dickson A Mkoka Maria Trent Source Type: research
Reproductive health service access and utilisation among migrant women in Dhaka's urban slums: a qualitative study
This study explores the impact of migration on the access and utilisation of sexual and reproductive health services by women living in an informal settlement in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A total of 16 in-depth interviews were conducted in March and April of 2019 with women (18-49 years old) who had migrated from rural areas to Dhaka. They reported continued economic insecurity while receiving minimal support from the state. All women reported financial and infrastructural barriers to accessing formal sexual and reproductive health services and tended to seek resources and support through social networks within the slum and from ...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - January 27, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ishrat Jahan Myriam Vuckovic Selima Sara Kabir Sabina Faiz Rashid Jennifer Bouey Source Type: research
The intersectional social patterning of early-COVID-era digital intimacies among transgender and gender-diverse young adults: effects on peri-pandemic sexual decision-making
Cult Health Sex. 2024 Jan 24:1-18. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2302054. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTInteractive communications technologies facilitate identity formation and socio-sexual connection among transgender and gender-diverse young people. However, within their communities, variations in technology use along ethno-racial, sexual and gendered lines, and as facilitators of sexual resilience during the early COVID-19 pandemic, remain under-studied. Among N = 230 transgender and gender-diverse young adults, surveyed between October 2020 and September 2021, latent class analyses characterised participants by preferred...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - January 24, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Simone J Skeen Demetria Cain Kripa Mehta Joshua A Rusow Keith J Horvath Cathy J Reback Source Type: research
Mental health and societal challenges among forced migrants of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions: health professionals' descriptions and interpretations
Cult Health Sex. 2024 Jan 22:1-16. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2023.2298479. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe aim of this study was to explore health professionals' descriptions and interpretations of post-migration mental health and societal challenges among forced migrants with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions. Participants representing seven professions were recruited by a combination of convenience, purposive and snowball sampling. Data were collected through focus groups and individual interviews, analysed with systematic text condensation in a collaborative process involving researcher...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - January 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Maria Gottvall Rogers Kissiti Ronah Ainembabazi Hannah Bergman Anna Eldebo Rummage Isaac Sumera Yasin Maria Jirwe Tommy Carlsson Source Type: research
An examination of the independent and intersectional effects of racial and heterosexist medical mistrust on timing of sexual/reproductive health care visits among Black sexual minority women in the USA
Cult Health Sex. 2024 Jan 19:1-18. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2304150. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTExperiences of racism and heterosexism in medical settings are social and systemic barriers to 'on-time' receipt of sexual and reproductive health services among women with both racial and sexual minority identities. Medical mistrust based on experiences related to these dual identities is associated with avoidance and delays in care. However, investigators are just beginning to apply an intersectional lens to quantitatively understanding such barriers. The purpose of this study was to examine the independent and interactio...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - January 19, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Aaliyah Gray Celia B Fisher Source Type: research
'It would be a problem for the family': queerness, family honour and familism in Chile
This study examined how family honour, as a component of familism, operates within kin dynamics, specifically focusing on same-sex cohabitation, as this living arrangement serves as a tangible expression of a non-normative sexual orientation. A life course perspective was used to study 24 cases of cohabiting lesbian, gay and bi/pansexual individuals in Chile. The results show the enduring significance of families in providing support, sociability, identity, and a sense of belonging. Nevertheless, it reveals notable instances of family rejection towards queer kin. In Chile, both families of origin and queer individuals empl...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - January 12, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Alejandra Ramm Pablo Astudillo Daniel Venegas Consuelo Dinamarca Viviana Salinas Source Type: research
'We had that abortion together': abortion networks and access to il/legal abortions in Turkey
This study aimed to investigate how women strategically mobilise their social networks to overcome such restrictions to abortion care. Drawing from 25 in-depth interviews with urban-educated cis-women aged 24-30, I identify three groups within abortion networks: included, excluded and ambiguous. While included groups comprised largely of female family and friends, excluded groups were male family members and organisations, and the ambiguous category included health professionals and partners. Supporting findings in other contexts, individuals initially utilise their abortion networks to access the provider, they then build...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - January 9, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sinem Esengen Source Type: research
'We had that abortion together': abortion networks and access to il/legal abortions in Turkey
This study aimed to investigate how women strategically mobilise their social networks to overcome such restrictions to abortion care. Drawing from 25 in-depth interviews with urban-educated cis-women aged 24-30, I identify three groups within abortion networks: included, excluded and ambiguous. While included groups comprised largely of female family and friends, excluded groups were male family members and organisations, and the ambiguous category included health professionals and partners. Supporting findings in other contexts, individuals initially utilise their abortion networks to access the provider, they then build...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - January 9, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sinem Esengen Source Type: research
A qualitative community health assessment of HIV prevention awareness in a semi-rural Latinx seasonal farm working community in South Florida
This article explores HIV awareness and prevention in a Latinx seasonal farmworker community of south Miami-Dade County in the USA. The study took place as part of a larger community assessment that aimed to determine community needs and resources related to substance abuse, violence and HIV in the Latinx seasonal farmworker communities of south Miami-Dade County, with a particular focus on fathers' and their male sons' relationships. The study collected data on HIV knowledge and prevention, healthcare-seeking behaviours, cultural norms, and communication barriers about HIV prevention between fathers and sons. Data were co...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - December 29, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jos é F Colón-Burgos Patria Rojas Vicky Vazquez Maria Antonina Khalona Marisabel Canedo Mar ía C Pinzón Iregui Beatriz Mac ías Gómez-Estern Mario De La Rosa Mariana S ánchez Miguel Ángel Cano Gira J Ravelo Ashly Westrick Victoria Behar-Zusman Source Type: research
A qualitative community health assessment of HIV prevention awareness in a semi-rural Latinx seasonal farm working community in South Florida
This article explores HIV awareness and prevention in a Latinx seasonal farmworker community of south Miami-Dade County in the USA. The study took place as part of a larger community assessment that aimed to determine community needs and resources related to substance abuse, violence and HIV in the Latinx seasonal farmworker communities of south Miami-Dade County, with a particular focus on fathers' and their male sons' relationships. The study collected data on HIV knowledge and prevention, healthcare-seeking behaviours, cultural norms, and communication barriers about HIV prevention between fathers and sons. Data were co...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - December 29, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jos é F Colón-Burgos Patria Rojas Vicky Vazquez Maria Antonina Khalona Marisabel Canedo Mar ía C Pinzón Iregui Beatriz Mac ías Gómez-Estern Mario De La Rosa Mariana S ánchez Miguel Ángel Cano Gira J Ravelo Ashly Westrick Victoria Behar-Zusman Source Type: research
A qualitative community health assessment of HIV prevention awareness in a semi-rural Latinx seasonal farm working community in South Florida
This article explores HIV awareness and prevention in a Latinx seasonal farmworker community of south Miami-Dade County in the USA. The study took place as part of a larger community assessment that aimed to determine community needs and resources related to substance abuse, violence and HIV in the Latinx seasonal farmworker communities of south Miami-Dade County, with a particular focus on fathers' and their male sons' relationships. The study collected data on HIV knowledge and prevention, healthcare-seeking behaviours, cultural norms, and communication barriers about HIV prevention between fathers and sons. Data were co...
Source: Culture, Health and Sexuality - December 29, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jos é F Colón-Burgos Patria Rojas Vicky Vazquez Maria Antonina Khalona Marisabel Canedo Mar ía C Pinzón Iregui Beatriz Mac ías Gómez-Estern Mario De La Rosa Mariana S ánchez Miguel Ángel Cano Gira J Ravelo Ashly Westrick Victoria Behar-Zusman Source Type: research
