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Title Sexual discourse in the context of AIDS: dominant themes on adolescent sexuality among primary school pupils in Magu district, Tanzania
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1885/41373
Date 1997
Author(s) Nnko, Soori; Pool, Robert
Contributor(s) Setel, Philip W.; Chirwa, Wiseman Chijere; Preston-Whyte, Eleanor
Abstract School pupils in Tanzania have been identified as a risk group for HIV/AIDS, so a large part of TANESA'S anthropological research is aimed at charting and understanding forms of sexual risk behaviour among adolescents with a view to influencing change. This study presents the dominant themes of sexual discourse among adolescent primary school pupils in Magu district along the south-eastern shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania. The themes are: love and sex; sexual desire; money and rewards; and deception. The fear of pregnancy also emerges as a dominant theme. Because of the nature and extent of their sexual relationships, school pupils will be increasingly exposed to the risk of HIV and STD infection. This is exacerbated by the lack of condom availability and the proscribed nature of sex (and therefore condom use) among primary school pupils. - no
Subject(s) Tanzania; HIV/AIDS; adolescent sexuality; primary school pupils; STDs; sexually transmitted diseases; condoms; pregnancy; scls-anth; scls-cmmn
Language en_AU
Publisher Health Transition Centre, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University
Type of publication pjournal
Format 25590 bytes; application/pdf
Rights yes
Identifier supp.3; 85-90; Health Transition Review; 7; 1997; 966
Repository Canberra - Australian National University
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