Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Community Psychology
Masculinity, Male Empowerment, And Hiv/Aids Risk In Caprivi, Namibia, Mark Perry
Masculinity, Male Empowerment, And Hiv/Aids Risk In Caprivi, Namibia, Mark Perry
Dissertations & Theses (Open Access)
Namibia has a generalized HIV epidemic, with 13% of adults being infected. Its East Caprivi Region has the highest prenatal HIV prevalence in the country, 21%, among girls and women aged 15-24 years. In recent years, researchers have pointed to men who express their masculinity through high-risk sex as driving the epidemic in East Caprivi. This exploratory study examined the role that men and their masculinity concepts played in transmission, how those concepts were evolving over time, what was influencing the change, and in which directions. Employing grounded theory methods and guided by Robert Connell's theoretical framework on masculinities, the …