ArticleCulture, health & sexuality2016
Fatherhood, marriage and HIV risk among young men in rural Uganda.
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- "You're in an Image of a Man but Not a Man": A Qualitative Analysis of Intersectional Stigma Among Men with HIV Experiencing Subfertility in Rural Southwestern Uganda.AIDS and behavior · 2025Article
- Traditional supports and contemporary disrupters of high fertility desires in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review.Reproductive health · 2023Article
- 'Taking care' in the age of AIDS: older rural South Africans' strategies for surviving the HIV epidemic.Culture, health & sexuality · 2018Article
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- Male partners of young women in Uganda: Understanding their relationships and use of HIV testing.PloS one · 2018Article
- Contraceptive knowledge, perceptions, and concerns among men in Uganda.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Determinants of fertility desire among married or cohabiting individuals in Rakai, Uganda: a cross-sectional study.Reproductive health · 2017Article
- Reconsidering gendered sexualities in a generalized AIDS epidemic.Gender & society : official publication of Sociologists for Women in Society · 2016Article
- A scoping review of qualitative studies on sexual and reproductive health and rights in Uganda: Exploring factors at multiple levels.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
Compared to a large body of work on how gender may affect young women's vulnerability to HIV, we know little about how masculine ideals and practices relating to marriage and fertility desires shape young men's HIV risk. Using life-history interview data with 30 HIV-positive and HIV-negative young men aged 15-24 years, this analysis offers an in-depth perspective on young men's transition through adolescence, the desire for fatherhood and experience of sexual partnerships in rural Uganda. Young men consistently reported the desire for fatherhood as a cornerstone of masculinity and transition to adulthood. Ideally young men wanted children within socially sanctioned unions. Yet, most young men were unable to realise their marital intentions. Gendered expectations to be economic providers combined with structural constraints, such as limited access to educational and income-generating opportunities, led some young men to engage in a variety of HIV-risk behaviours. Multiple partnerships and limited condom use were at times an attempt by some young men to attain some part of their aspirations related to fatherhood and marriage. Our findings suggest that young men possess relationship and parenthood aspirations that - in an environment of economic scarcity - may influence HIV-related risk.
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