ArticleCulture, health & sexuality2016
From first love to marriage and maturity: a life-course perspective on HIV risk among young Swazi adults.
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- Re-conceptualising gender and power relations for sexual and reproductive health: contrasting narratives of tradition, unity, and rights.Culture, health & sexuality · 2020Article
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- Navigating intimate sexual partnerships in an era of HIV: dimensions of couple relationship quality and satisfaction among adults in Eswatini and linkages to HIV risk.SAHARA J : journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance · 2019Article
- Love matters: exploring conceptions of love in Rwanda and Swaziland and relationship to HIV and intimate partner violence.African journal of AIDS research : AJAR · 2017Article
- Agency as a mediator in the pathway from transactional sex to HIV among pregnant women in Swaziland: a multigroup path analysis.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2017Article
- 'Behaving well': the transition to respectable womanhood in rural South Africa.Culture, health & sexuality · 2017Article
- Using Qualitative Methods to Validate and Contextualize Quantitative Findings: A Case Study of Research on Sexual Behavior and Gender-Based Violence Among Young Swazi Women.Global health, science and practice · 2016Article
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This paper uses a life-course approach to explore the sexual partnerships and HIV-related risk of men and women in Swaziland throughout their adolescence, 20s and 30s. Twenty-eight Swazi men and women between the ages of 20 and 39 discussed their life histories in 117 in-depth interviews, with an average follow-up of nine months. Many participants described painful childhood experiences, including a lack of positive role models for couple relationships. Women's first sexual partnerships often involved coercion or force and resulted in pregnancy and abandonment by partners, leaving women economically vulnerable. Most men and women reported a desire to marry and associated marriage with respectability and monogamy. Men typically did not feel ready to marry until their 30s, while women often married only after years in tumultuous relationships. A high degree of relationship instability and change was observed over the study period, with half of participants reporting concurrency within their primary relationship. Participants' narratives revealed significant sources and circumstances of risk, particularly multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships, violence and lack of mutual trust within relationships, as well as social ideals that may provide opportunities for effective HIV prevention.
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