Resilience through participation and coping-enabling social environments: the case of HIV-affected children in sub-Saharan Africa
| العنوان: | Resilience through participation and coping-enabling social environments: the case of HIV-affected children in sub-Saharan Africa |
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| المؤلفون: | Marguerite Daniel, Morten Skovdal |
| المصدر: | African Journal of AIDS Research African Journal of AIDS Research; Vol 11, No 3 (2012) |
| بيانات النشر: | Taylor & Francis, 2012. |
| سنة النشر: | 2012 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Economic growth, Coping (psychology), social networks, family, Area studies, media_common.quotation_subject, Empirical research, Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), Virology, medicine, Sociology, psychosocial aspects, media_common, orphans and vulnerable children, biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, households, General Medicine, Introduction to the Special Issue, biology.organism_classification, medicine.disease, youths, Surprise, Infectious Diseases, Tanzania, resource-poor settings, HIV/AIDS, social capital, qualitative research, Social capital, Qualitative research |
| الوصف: | Many children and youths living in low-resource and high-HIV-prevalence communities in sub-Saharan Africa are presented with daily hardships that few of us can even imagine. It is therefore no surprise that most research reporting on the experiences of HIV-affected children in resource-poor settings focuses on their poor health and development outcomes, casting them as victims. However, there is a growing trend to draw on more strengths based conceptualisations in the study and support of HIV-affected children and youths. In this introduction to a special issue of The African Journal of AIDS Research, we cement this trend by providing a theoretical exposition and critique of the ‘coping’ and ‘resilience’ concepts and draw on the 11 empirical studies that make up this special issue to develop a framework that appropriates the concepts for a particular context and area of study: HIV-affected children in sub-Saharan Africa. The articles included here show, albeit in different ways and to different degrees, that the resilience of HIV-affected children in the region is an outcome of their agency and interactions with their social environment. Policy actors and practitioners working to support HIV-affected children in Africa should take heed of the proposed framework and draw on the research presented here to build coping-enabling social environments — presenting children and youths in Africa with greater opportunity to actively deal with hardship and work towards a more promising future.Keywords: family, HIV/AIDS, households, orphans and vulnerable children, psychosocial aspects, qualitative research, resource-poor settings, social capital, social networks, youthsAfrican Journal of AIDS Research 2012, 11(3): 153–164 |
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| اللغة: | English |
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| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....6fb628c480dd9323d04bfdcebfefdd7d |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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