| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
Ahn, Eun-Young
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| URN |
etd-04122006-152201 |
| Title |
The Gendered Power Differential: Its Role in HIV and Intimate Partner Violence Among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Degree |
Master of Public Health |
| Program |
Behavioral and Community Health Sciences |
| School |
Graduate School of Public Health |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Martha Ann Terry |
Committee Chair |
| Emilia Lombardi |
Committee Member |
| Jessica Griffin Burke |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- HIV
- intimate partner violence
- IPV
- sub-Saharan Africa
- power
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| Date of Defense |
2006-04-07 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
This paper will discuss the power differential between women and men and its role in the intersection of HIV/AIDS and intimate partner violence among women in sub-Saharan Africa. Both HIV and intimate partner violence are of tremendous public health relevance. Since its “discovery” over 20 years ago, HIV has been and continues to be a world health problem. Nearly 40 million people worldwide are living with HIV/AIDS; about half of them are women. Fifty seven percent of the people living with HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa are women. HIV prevention continues to be an urgent health priority in sub-Saharan Africa and throughout developing countries around the world; yet interventions preach abstinence and safer sex practices without recognizing the sociocultural context of HIV/AIDS or of sexual behavior and practices. Traditional concepts of gender roles and the power differential intrinsic in relationships between women and men must be accounted for – not only in the design of HIV interventions, but also acknowledged as risk factors for violent relationships. Suggestion of condom use by the female partner, for example, is often met with suspicion, hostility, even violence from her male partner. Intimate partner violence is researched in this paper because it is the ultimate manifestation of the gendered power differential.
This paper will critically review existing HIV interventions targeting women, explore different gender norms throughout sub-Saharan Africa and the gendered power differential as exemplified by IPV. The paper will conclude with recommendations for future public health efforts and a proposal for an intervention that addresses both public health issues.
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