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Love, lifestyles and the risk of AIDS: The moral worlds of young people in Bobo‐Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- Source :
- Culture, Health & Sexuality. 8:211-224
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2006.
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Abstract
- The HIV epidemic has had a profound impact on people's everyday life in most African societies. A large proportion of all new HIV infections involves young people between 15 and 25 years. The objective of this paper is to explore local moral worlds of young people in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, and discuss how the HIVS epidemic affects their reflections on their everyday life and their perceptions of sexual relationships. Based on anthropological fieldwork, including focus-group discussions, in-depth interviews and participant observation, a total of 57 young people between 15 and 25 years were followed over a 3-month period. Using the notion of 'lifestyle', the paper shows how structural factors of unemployment and poverty paired with global discourse on AIDS present the young people with frustrations and quandaries in relation to their hopes and images of love, faithfulness and modern living. The data shows that the HIV epidemic contributes to and accelerates their feeling of living in a risk society and of being at risk. In order to cope with these uncertainties and contingencies, local discourses of trust and fidelity become extremely important and to most young people HIV prevention is synonymous with finding a faithful partner and/or using condoms.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health (social science)
Adolescent
Population
Social value orientations
Morals
Disease Outbreaks
Interpersonal relationship
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Surveys and Questionnaires
Activities of Daily Living
Adaptation, Psychological
Burkina Faso
medicine
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Sociology
Everyday life
education
Life Style
Poverty
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
education.field_of_study
Narration
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Gender studies
medicine.disease
Focus group
Sexual Partners
Socioeconomic Factors
Risk society
Female
Social psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14645351 and 13691058
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Culture, Health & Sexuality
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1601975a60d7f2c68484cb1a6a88894b