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A Shock to the System: HIV among Older African Women in Zimbabwe

A Shock to the System: HIV among Older African Women in Zimbabwe

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A Shock to the System: HIV among Older African Women in Zimbabwe

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Full title

A Shock to the System: HIV among Older African Women in Zimbabwe

Publisher

Lodz: Uniwersytet Lodzki, Wydzial Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny, Instytut Socjol

Journal title

Qualitative sociology review : QSR, 2018-10, Vol.14 (4), p.138-152

Language

English

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Publisher

Lodz: Uniwersytet Lodzki, Wydzial Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny, Instytut Socjol

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Contents

HIV remains a threat to the ordinary everyday life of older woman in African society. In what can be called “a reality shock,” HIV challenges most of the ordinary everyday endeavors in conservative African societies as it imposes new Western prevention, treatment, and health-management methods over long-held African traditions. The reality of the “...

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Full title

A Shock to the System: HIV among Older African Women in Zimbabwe

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TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_a2e5200d57a54130b83431d2aec18274

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_a2e5200d57a54130b83431d2aec18274

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ISSN

1733-8077

E-ISSN

1733-8077

DOI

10.18778/1733-8077.14.4.09

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