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Reframing the measurement of women’s work in the sub-Saharan African context [PDF]

, 2018
This research note considers how we measure women’s work in the sub-Saharan African (SSA) context. Drawing on qualitative work conducted in Burundi, the note examines how existing measures of women’s work do not accurately capture the intensity and type ...
Canning, David +4 more
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Yes, Friendship and Love Can Be Bought and Sold

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can friendship and love be bought and sold? I argue yes, contrary to philosophical consensus. The prevailing view rests on the common error of over‐reliance on idealized conceptions of friendship and love that bear little resemblance to actual relationships.
Simone Sommer Degn
wiley +1 more source

Transactional sex among Nigerian university students: The role of family structure and family support.

PLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundThe reasons for the persistence of risky sexual behaviours among adolescents and young adults in sub-Saharan Africa despite the increasing knowledge about the associated risks continue to attract scholarly debates.
Anthony Idowu Ajayi, Oluwaseyi Dolapo Somefun +1 more
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Risky sexual behaviour and contraceptive use in contexts of displacement: insights from a cross-sectional survey of female adolescent refugees in Ghana

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background Difficulty in accessing sexual and reproductive healthcare is one of the challenges young refugee women face worldwide, in addition to sexual exploitation, violence and abuse.
John Kuumuori Ganle +3 more
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Transactional sex and the ‘aristo’ phenomenon in Nigerian universities

Human Affairs, 2012
Abstract ‘Aristocratic’ transactional relationships are widespread in Nigerian universities. Nigerian cultures positively sanction repressive sexual activities among single unmarried adolescents until the wedding night. Modernity has confronted this cultural prescription, as youths, particularly girls, engage in transactional exchange in
Oludayo Tade, Adeshewa Adekoya
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Risk-coping through sexual networks : evidence from client transfers in Kenya [PDF]

Why do women engage in transactional sex? While much of the explanation is that sex-for-money pays more than other jobs, this paper uses a unique panel dataset constructed from 192 self-reported diaries of sex workers in Western Kenya to show that women ...
Robinson, Jonathan, Yeh, Ethan
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HIV fatalism and engagement in transactional sex among Ugandan fisherfolk living with HIV

SAHARA-J, 2019
HIV fatalism, or the belief that HIV acquisition and mortality is out of one's control, is thought to contribute to HIV risk in fishing populations in East Africa.
Katelyn M. Sileo +6 more
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Young women’s perceptions of transactional sex and sexual agency: a qualitative study in the context of rural South Africa

BMC Public Health, 2017
Background Evidence shows that HIV prevalence among young women in sub-Saharan Africa increases almost five-fold between ages 15 and 24, with almost a quarter of young women infected by their early-to mid-20s.
Meghna Ranganathan +7 more
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An Ecological Risk Model for Early Childhood Anxiety: The Importance of Early Child Symptoms and Temperament [PDF]

, 2010
Childhood anxiety is impairing and associated with later emotional disorders. Studying risk factors for child anxiety may allow earlier identification of at-risk children for prevention efforts.
Briggs-Gowan, Margaret J. +3 more
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Genome‐Wide Assessment Reveals Ancestral Differences in Homozygosity Patterns Potentially Linked to Parkinson's Disease Etiology

Movement Disorders, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Recessive genetic variation and extended runs of homozygosity (ROHs) may contribute to the unexplained heritability of Parkinson's disease (PD), particularly in diverse and understudied populations. Objective We conducted the first large‐scale, multi‐ancestral investigation of PD to examine the impact of genome‐wide homozygosity on ...
Kathryn Step +680 more
wiley +1 more source

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