Logo Lanfrica
  • Home
  • Atlas
  • Insights
  • Docs
  • Sign in

© 2026 Lanfrica. All rights reserved. All copyrights of the resources shown on the Lanfrica website belong to the original copyright holders, unless explicitly stated otherwise.

‘Harmful Cultural Practices’ and AIDS

Domain:

healthcare
Creator:
Sam
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
Host:
Abstract In this chapter I show how ‘harmful cultural practices’ have emerged as a development issue in global conventions and policies over the past ten years starting with current policies and mapping backwards to the first step taken by the UN in 2001 at the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS. In the second section I look at the shift from the global to the national level and demonstrate how international policies have influenced national policy on AIDS and harmful cultural practices in Malawi. I use data collected from interviews and documents to show how the Malawian elite have constructed narratives around AIDS and cultural practices in Malawi; that rural people’s backwardness is to blame for high HIV prevalence rates.

Visit

doi.org

Licenses

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Similar

The Invention of ‘Harmful Cultural Practices’ in the Era of AIDS in MalawiA Qualitative Study Exploring Harmful Cultural Practices and HIV Stigma in North Central NigeriaThe Construction of Policy: Donors, AIDS and Cultural PracticesMaking Harmful Traditional PracticesLitigation and Advocacy Tool to End Harmful PracticesAppraisal of harmful traditional practices in Nigeria: magnitude, justifications and interventions

The Invention of ‘Harmful Cultural Practices’ in the Era of AIDS in Malawi

A Qualitative Study Exploring Harmful Cultural Practices and HIV Stigma in North Central Nigeria

Harmful cultural practices have psychosocial implications on stigmatization and vulnerability to HIV

The Construction of Policy: Donors, AIDS and Cultural Practices

Abstract In this chapter I explore the dynamics of the policy development process and I examine the

Making Harmful Traditional Practices

Chapter 2, Making Harmful Traditional Practices, examines the Ghanaian problematization of cutting a

Litigation and Advocacy Tool to End Harmful Practices

Created by Equality Now, the Centre for Human Rights University of Pretoria and the Solidarity for A

Appraisal of harmful traditional practices in Nigeria: magnitude, justifications and interventions

Purpose: The study did an appraisal of harmful traditional practices (HTPs) in Nigeria despite globa