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Title Men, women and the trouble with condoms: problems associated with condom use by migrant workers in rural Zambia
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1885/41404
Date 1997
Author(s) Bond, Virginia; Dover, Paul
Contributor(s) Ntozi, J. P. M.; Anarfi, J. K.; Caldwell, J. C.; Jain, S
Abstract Understanding cultural attitudes to condoms is of the utmost importance in promoting their use as a means of protection against HIV transmission. This article examines condom use in relation to what people see as the purpose of sex, what good sex entails and how this relates to ideas of being a proper woman or man. It seems that the underlying and pervasive ideal is that sex is essentially a procreative act, since an emphasis on male potency and male and female fertility often overrides anxieties about contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Hence condom use is usually only negotiated within some short-term relationships and then not consistently. Whilst both men and women have negative attitudes to condoms, women because of their economic and ideological dependence on men are in a much weaker position to negotiate condom use. - no
Subject(s) Zambia; condoms; HIV/AIDS; male potency; female fertility; STDs; contraception; cultural attitudes; migrant workers; scls-bhvr
Language en_AU
Publisher Health Transition Centre, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University
Type of publication pjournal
Format 68326 bytes; application/pdf
Rights yes
Identifier suppl.; 377-391; Health Transition Review; 7; 1997; 923
Repository Canberra - Australian National University
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