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Papers by Elizabeth Reid
Australasian Review of African Studies, Jun 1, 2002
This paper reflects on the dilemmas that AIDS presents for African governments and people; and fo... more This paper reflects on the dilemmas that AIDS presents for African governments and people; and for those who advise them. It is in the form of extracts from notes kept while on a mission to Malawi in November/December 2001 to strengthen national and local capacity to respond to the human, social and economic dimensions of the epidemic, both causes and consequences. The dilemmas and contradictions which Malawi confronts are similar to those for many other African states, and are now arising in other parts of the world. The challenge is to work out how to respond to an epidemic that is so diffused throughout society; where the epidemic is unravelling the institutions in which the responsibility for governance resides; and where poverty compounds the issues.
Anticipatory Social Protection, 2013
The social protection landscape is currently characterised by competing discourses and agendas, g... more The social protection landscape is currently characterised by competing discourses and agendas, given that bilaterals, multilaterals and private funders have different targets and have differing constituents whose lives they seek to improve. Critical aspects such as gender inequalities and inequities, women and children’s agency and community coping mechanisms are often not adequately addressed. This publication introduces the Commonwealth Secretariat’s anticipatory and transformative social protection approach, which outlines the principles and strategies for advancing a gender-responsive, human rights-based approach to social protection. It presents analysis and discussion of a framework for social protection, models of good practice from across the Commonwealth, and innovative ways of providing social protection that are not based on men and women being in full-time paid work in the formal economy. This publication will assist policy-makers and development practitioners in making informed decisions about programme design and delivery so that beneficiaries’ access to and participation in social protection mechanisms are fully realised.
Whose visions of development? It has rarely, if ever, been women's perceptions or women&apos... more Whose visions of development? It has rarely, if ever, been women's perceptions or women's dreams which have informed development and social change. The vision from which development is elaborated has been the vision of those few located at the centre of power, at the intersection of the axes of privilege. This paper explores the relationship between analysis and practice, between how reality is understood and conceptualised and what the implications are for action. I contend that the analysis of a problem shapes and determines development practice, social policy, research priorities and activism. An important example of this is the conceptualisation of poverty. The complex, diverse, debilitating and dynamic ways that people experience poverty has to do with subjugation, humiliation, isolation, physical incapacity, social
AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean, 2019
Both men and women are affected by the deadly disease AIDS; WHO has estimated that worldwide 1.5 ... more Both men and women are affected by the deadly disease AIDS; WHO has estimated that worldwide 1.5 million women are infected with the AIDS virus. However 1.25 million of these women can be found in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America where the disease is transmitted through heterosexual sex. An estimated 200000 women are infected with the virus in North America Western Europe Australia and New Zealand through intravenous drug use and heterosexual intercourse. An estimated 50000 women are infected with the virus in parts of Asia and Eastern Europe. AIDS has a strong effect on the role that women play as mother; the women worry about who will take care of their children during their illness and after their deaths. In addition to this there is the possibility the mothers may infect their infants; these children usually die before their 5th birthdays. Professional counseling may help HIV infected women deal with rejection from their partners and fear and anxiety over the fate of their children. Women not infected with the virus face the problem of not receiving information on AIDS and how it is transmitted and ways in which they can alter sexual practices so that they can be protected. Women financially dependent and prostitutes - men and women might find it difficult to alter the sexual practices of their partners. The threat of the loss of income may prevent them from asking their male partners to wear condoms. Recommendations made for dealing with new challenges raised by AIDS include: improving the status of women; distribution of accurate information on AIDS; improving access to counseling for women; and involving women and men in AIDS awareness.
The Serendipity Educational Endowment Fund (SEEF) supports HIV affected children through educatio... more The Serendipity Educational Endowment Fund (SEEF) supports HIV affected children through education. The SEEF is working with five local partners in five provinces and supports over forty families touched by HIV epidemic and more than a hundred children have been enabled to continue their education.
AIDS Education, 1996
“We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people, people... more “We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people, people who want to build a home. To plant a tree. To love, to live side by side with you. In dignity. In empathy. As human beings.”
Civic Insecurity: Law, Order and HIV in Papua New Guinea, Dec 1, 2010
Critical Reflections on Development
Medical Journal of Australia, 2004
Global Public Health, 2007
After more than twenty years of programming and activism aimed at stemming the sexual transmissio... more After more than twenty years of programming and activism aimed at stemming the sexual transmission of HIV (and addressing the needs of those most vulnerable to infection) the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to grow worldwide. Taking up this concern, this paper argues that one of the reasons why HIV prevention has had limited success is because of inadequate conceptualization of human sexuality in such work. Giving sexuality a more prominent position in responses to the epidemic raises a range of issues, including theorization of gender, understanding of sexual subjectivity, the significance of pleasure (or lack of pleasure) in sexual decision-making, and conceptualization of sexual behaviour and culture. Taking these themes forward entails asking significant questions about the underlying paradigmatic and methodological commitments of mainstream HIV/AIDS research, especially the tendency to reproduce accounts of human sexuality as if it were a measurable form of conduct only. Advocating new approaches that take the meaning and symbolic value of sexualities into account complicates established orthodoxies in the field whilst offering potential for more effective HIV prevention strategies.
Review(s) of: Letting Them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail, by Catherine Campbell, O... more Review(s) of: Letting Them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail, by Catherine Campbell, Oxford, The International African Institute in Association with James Currey; Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press; Cape Town, Double Storey, 2003, Pp. Ix + 214. ISBN 0 85255 868 6 (P/b).
Australasian Review of African Studies, Jun 1, 2002
This paper reflects on the dilemmas that AIDS presents for African governments and people; and fo... more This paper reflects on the dilemmas that AIDS presents for African governments and people; and for those who advise them. It is in the form of extracts from notes kept while on a mission to Malawi in November/December 2001 to strengthen national and local capacity to respond to the human, social and economic dimensions of the epidemic, both causes and consequences. The dilemmas and contradictions which Malawi confronts are similar to those for many other African states, and are now arising in other parts of the world. The challenge is to work out how to respond to an epidemic that is so diffused throughout society; where the epidemic is unravelling the institutions in which the responsibility for governance resides; and where poverty compounds the issues.
Anticipatory Social Protection, 2013
The social protection landscape is currently characterised by competing discourses and agendas, g... more The social protection landscape is currently characterised by competing discourses and agendas, given that bilaterals, multilaterals and private funders have different targets and have differing constituents whose lives they seek to improve. Critical aspects such as gender inequalities and inequities, women and children’s agency and community coping mechanisms are often not adequately addressed. This publication introduces the Commonwealth Secretariat’s anticipatory and transformative social protection approach, which outlines the principles and strategies for advancing a gender-responsive, human rights-based approach to social protection. It presents analysis and discussion of a framework for social protection, models of good practice from across the Commonwealth, and innovative ways of providing social protection that are not based on men and women being in full-time paid work in the formal economy. This publication will assist policy-makers and development practitioners in making informed decisions about programme design and delivery so that beneficiaries’ access to and participation in social protection mechanisms are fully realised.
Whose visions of development? It has rarely, if ever, been women's perceptions or women&apos... more Whose visions of development? It has rarely, if ever, been women's perceptions or women's dreams which have informed development and social change. The vision from which development is elaborated has been the vision of those few located at the centre of power, at the intersection of the axes of privilege. This paper explores the relationship between analysis and practice, between how reality is understood and conceptualised and what the implications are for action. I contend that the analysis of a problem shapes and determines development practice, social policy, research priorities and activism. An important example of this is the conceptualisation of poverty. The complex, diverse, debilitating and dynamic ways that people experience poverty has to do with subjugation, humiliation, isolation, physical incapacity, social
AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean, 2019
Both men and women are affected by the deadly disease AIDS; WHO has estimated that worldwide 1.5 ... more Both men and women are affected by the deadly disease AIDS; WHO has estimated that worldwide 1.5 million women are infected with the AIDS virus. However 1.25 million of these women can be found in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America where the disease is transmitted through heterosexual sex. An estimated 200000 women are infected with the virus in North America Western Europe Australia and New Zealand through intravenous drug use and heterosexual intercourse. An estimated 50000 women are infected with the virus in parts of Asia and Eastern Europe. AIDS has a strong effect on the role that women play as mother; the women worry about who will take care of their children during their illness and after their deaths. In addition to this there is the possibility the mothers may infect their infants; these children usually die before their 5th birthdays. Professional counseling may help HIV infected women deal with rejection from their partners and fear and anxiety over the fate of their children. Women not infected with the virus face the problem of not receiving information on AIDS and how it is transmitted and ways in which they can alter sexual practices so that they can be protected. Women financially dependent and prostitutes - men and women might find it difficult to alter the sexual practices of their partners. The threat of the loss of income may prevent them from asking their male partners to wear condoms. Recommendations made for dealing with new challenges raised by AIDS include: improving the status of women; distribution of accurate information on AIDS; improving access to counseling for women; and involving women and men in AIDS awareness.
The Serendipity Educational Endowment Fund (SEEF) supports HIV affected children through educatio... more The Serendipity Educational Endowment Fund (SEEF) supports HIV affected children through education. The SEEF is working with five local partners in five provinces and supports over forty families touched by HIV epidemic and more than a hundred children have been enabled to continue their education.
AIDS Education, 1996
“We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people, people... more “We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people, people who want to build a home. To plant a tree. To love, to live side by side with you. In dignity. In empathy. As human beings.”
Civic Insecurity: Law, Order and HIV in Papua New Guinea, Dec 1, 2010
Critical Reflections on Development
Medical Journal of Australia, 2004
Global Public Health, 2007
After more than twenty years of programming and activism aimed at stemming the sexual transmissio... more After more than twenty years of programming and activism aimed at stemming the sexual transmission of HIV (and addressing the needs of those most vulnerable to infection) the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to grow worldwide. Taking up this concern, this paper argues that one of the reasons why HIV prevention has had limited success is because of inadequate conceptualization of human sexuality in such work. Giving sexuality a more prominent position in responses to the epidemic raises a range of issues, including theorization of gender, understanding of sexual subjectivity, the significance of pleasure (or lack of pleasure) in sexual decision-making, and conceptualization of sexual behaviour and culture. Taking these themes forward entails asking significant questions about the underlying paradigmatic and methodological commitments of mainstream HIV/AIDS research, especially the tendency to reproduce accounts of human sexuality as if it were a measurable form of conduct only. Advocating new approaches that take the meaning and symbolic value of sexualities into account complicates established orthodoxies in the field whilst offering potential for more effective HIV prevention strategies.
Review(s) of: Letting Them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail, by Catherine Campbell, O... more Review(s) of: Letting Them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail, by Catherine Campbell, Oxford, The International African Institute in Association with James Currey; Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press; Cape Town, Double Storey, 2003, Pp. Ix + 214. ISBN 0 85255 868 6 (P/b).