The competing discourses of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: discourses of rights and empowerment vs discourses of control and exclusion.
The competing discourses of HIV/AIDS circulating in sub-Saharan Africa are identified. These are medical, medico-moral, developmental (distinguishing between 'women in development' and gender and development perspectives), legal, ethical, and the rights discourse of groups living with HIV/AIDS and of African pressure groups. The analytical framework is that of discourse analysis as exemplified by Michel Foucault. The medical and medico-moral are identified as dominant. They shape the perceptions of the pandemic, our responses to it, and to those living with HIV/AIDS. However, dissident activist voices are fracturing the dominant frameworks, and are mobilising a struggle for meaning around definitions of gender, rights, and development.
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University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, U.K.
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; D000351:Africa, Eastern; D000353:Africa, Southern; D003469:Culture; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D015658:HIV Infections; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D008393:Marriage; D011634:Public Health; D011640:Public Policy