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ArticleCulture, health & sexuality2021

The cultural politics of secrecy during HIV home counselling and testing campaigns in Kenya.

Elizabeth J Pfeiffer, Harrison M K Maithya

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Article in Culture, health & sexuality, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Elizabeth J PfeifferDepartment of Anthropology, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, USA.
Harrison M K MaithyaDepartment of Sociology, Anthropology, and Community Development, South Eastern Kenya University, Kitui, Kenya.
Providence College · USSouth Eastern Kenya University · KE

Funding

Training in STIs and infections of global health significanceT32AI007637 · NIAID · INDIANA UNIV-PURDUE UNIV AT INDIANAPOLIS · PI WOOLS-KALOUSTIAN, KARA KAY · 2001 to 2020
$3.4M
Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute-T32 Program TL1TL1RR025759 · NCRR · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI SHEKHAR, ANANTHA · 2008 to 2011
$710k
Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute-T32 Program TL1TL1TR000162 · NCATS · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI SHEKHAR, ANANTHA · 2012 to 2013
$264k
NCATS NIH HHS TL1 TR000162NCRR NIH HHS TL1 RR025759NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007637
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How do the local cultural politics of secrecy intersect with biomedical and institutionalised global health knowledge and management of HIV? This question was ethnographically researched during a home counselling and testing programme as it was initiated twice in a Kenyan community. The programme was informed by worldwide efforts to organise and control HIV so as to 'end AIDS'. We focused critical attention on the relationship between HIV testing and counselling and contend that local expertise in speaking about (or silencing) sexuality, intimacy and HIV intersected with the home counselling and testing campaign as an instrument in the co-production of local gender dynamics and power arrangements. We demonstrate how the home counselling and testing programme was put to use for local cultural projects aimed at (re)negotiating gender, sexuality, social roles, intimacy and power dynamics and, in consequence, produced uneven experiences with testing, treatment and AIDS-related health outcomes during a period of major social change.

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HIV InfectionsConfidentialityCounselingHumansKenyaPoliticsAfricagenderglobal healthHIV counselling and testingsocial change

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