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It's harder for boys? Children's representations of their HIV/AIDS-affected peers in Zimbabwe

LeRoux-Rutledge, Emily; Guerlain, Madeleine A.; Andersen, Louise B.; Madanhire, Claudius; Mutsikiwa, Alice; Nyamukapa, Constance; Skovdal, Morten; Gregson, Simon; Campbell, Catherine

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Authors

Emily LeRoux-Rutledge

Madeleine A. Guerlain

Louise B. Andersen

Claudius Madanhire

Alice Mutsikiwa

Constance Nyamukapa

Morten Skovdal

Simon Gregson

Catherine Campbell



Abstract

This study examines whether children in rural Zimbabwe have differing representations of their HIV/AIDS-affected peers based on the gender of those peers. A group of 128 children (58 boys, 70 girls) aged 10–14 participated in a draw-and-write exercise, in which they were asked to tell the story of either an HIV/AIDS-affected girl child, or an HIV/AIDS-affected boy child. Stories were inductively thematically coded, and then a post hoc statistical analysis was conducted to see if there were differences in the themes that emerged in stories about girls versus stories about boys. The results showed that boys were more often depicted as materially deprived, without adult and teacher support, and heavily burdened with household duties. Further research is needed to determine whether the perceptions of the children in this study point to a series of overlooked challenges facing HIV/AIDS-affected boys, or to a culture of gender inequality facing HIV/AIDS-affected girls – which pays more attention to male suffering than to female suffering.

Citation

LeRoux-Rutledge, E., Guerlain, M. A., Andersen, L. B., Madanhire, C., Mutsikiwa, A., Nyamukapa, C., …Campbell, C. (2015). It's harder for boys? Children's representations of their HIV/AIDS-affected peers in Zimbabwe. AIDS Care, 27(11), 1367-1374. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2015.1093592

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 8, 2015
Online Publication Date Nov 29, 2015
Publication Date Nov 2, 2015
Deposit Date Feb 20, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal AIDS Care
Print ISSN 0954-0121
Electronic ISSN 1360-0451
Publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 27
Issue 11
Pages 1367-1374
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2015.1093592
Keywords HIV/AIDS, gender, children, Zimbabwe, suffering, coping
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5253569
Publisher URL https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540121.2015.1093592

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