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Title 'Between a rock and a hard place': applied anthropology and AIDS research on a commercial farm in Zambia
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1885/40200
Date 1997
Author(s) Bond, Virginia
Contributor(s) Setel, Philip W.; Chirwa, Wiseman Chijere; Preston-Whyte, Eleanor
Abstract Fieldwork on a commercial farm in southern Zambia, which was aimed at designing an HIV prevention program for farm workers, gradually exposed the nature of sexual liaisons between young girls, coming to work on the farm from the surrounding villages, and older migrant men workers. Before completing fieldwork, the anthropologist voiced her concern about the implications of these liaisons for the spread of STDs and HIV with the local rural community, farm management and farm workers. The immediate outcome of her intercessions was the decision by management to sack under-age workers. Although some members of the local community, including local research assistants, and some managers and workers welcomed this decision, others were angered by it. Caught between interest groups and conflicting guidelines, the anthropologist, it is argued, was in a no-win situation, 'between a rock and a hard place'. The paper proposes that the application of anthropological ethics in AIDS research needs some reevaluation. - no
Subject(s) Zambia; HIV/AIDS; AIDS research; STDs; sexually transmitted diseases; farm management; farm workers; rural communities; HIV prevention; busi-deve; scls-anth; scls-comr; scls-indi
Language en_AU
Publisher Health Transition Centre, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University
Type of publication pjournal
Format 56080 bytes; application/pdf
Rights yes
Identifier supp.3; 69-83; Health Transition Review; 7; 1997; 965
Repository Canberra - Australian National University
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