ArticleCulture, health & sexuality2018
'Taking care' in the age of AIDS: older rural South Africans' strategies for surviving the HIV epidemic.
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- The effects of HIV and systolic blood pressure on mortality risk in rural South Africa, 2010-2019: a data note.BMC research notes · 2023Article
- 'Sometimes it is not about men': Gendered and generational discourses of caregiving HIV transmission in a rural South African setting.Global public health · 2022Article
- Antiretroviral therapy and aging as resources for managing and resisting HIV-related stigma in rural South Africa.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2022Article
- From "Secret" to "Sensitive Issue": Shifting Ideas About HIV Disclosure Among Middle-Aged and Older Rural South Africans in the Era of Antiretroviral Treatment.Journal of aging and health · 2022Article
- "A NOWADAYS DISEASE": HIV/AIDS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN A RURAL SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNITY.AJS; American journal of sociology · 2021Article
- Assessing the feasibility of a life history calendar to measure HIV risk and health in older South Africans.PloS one · 2020Article
- How to "Live a Good Life": Aging and HIV Testing in Rural South Africa.Journal of aging and health · 2019Article
- "I was referred from the other side": Gender and HIV testing among older South Africans living with HIV.PloS one · 2018Article
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Abstract
Older adults have been largely overlooked in community studies of HIV in highly endemic African countries. In our rural study site in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, HIV prevalence among those aged 50 and older is 16.5%, suggesting that older adults are at risk of both acquiring and transmitting HIV. This paper utilises community-based focus-group interviews with older rural South African men and women to better understand the normative environment in which they come to understand and make decisions about their health as they age in an HIV endemic setting. We analyse the dimensions of an inductively emerging theme: ku ti hlayisa (to take care of yourself). For older adults, 'taking care' in an age of AIDS represented: (1) an individualised pathway to achieving old-age respectability through the taking up of responsibilities and behaviours that characterise being an older person, (2) a set of gendered norms and strategies for reducing one's HIV risk, and (3) a shared responsibility for attenuating the impact of the HIV epidemic in the local community. Findings reflect the individual, interdependent and communal ways in which older rural South Africans understand HIV risk and prevention, ways that also map onto current epidemiological thinking for improving HIV-related outcomes in high-prevalence settings.
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