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Dissonant Discourses: HIV-Positive Refugees and the Media in New Zealand

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 14680770220122873, Dec 10, 2010

... Because they are displaced and dispossessed, refugees have special needs and, thus, have ... ... more ... Because they are displaced and dispossessed, refugees have special needs and, thus, have ... Those countries that have, in the past decades, introduced immigration policies that allow for ... This discourse of monetarism robbed advocates for the refugees of the powerful discourse ...

Dissonant Discourses: HIV-Positive Refugees and the Media in New Zealand

Feminist Media Studies, 2002

... Because they are displaced and dispossessed, refugees have special needs and, thus, have ... ... more ... Because they are displaced and dispossessed, refugees have special needs and, thus, have ... Those countries that have, in the past decades, introduced immigration policies that allow for ... This discourse of monetarism robbed advocates for the refugees of the powerful discourse ...

HIV/AIDS and the African Refugee Education Program in New Zealand

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1521 Aeap 15 5 346 23819, Jun 1, 2005

In the past decade, the resettlement of African HIV-positive refugees in New Zealand has meant dr... more In the past decade, the resettlement of African HIV-positive refugees in New Zealand has meant dramatically changing patterns of new HIV infection. This increase in heterosexually acquired HIV has been met by mounting disquiet on the part of the public, politicians, and health officials. The voices of the refugees themselves have been lost in this debate. This article discusses the experiences of African refugees with HIV, being in New Zealand, and the establishment of the National HIV/AIDS Refugee Health Education Program, designed to meet the needs of African communities in New Zealand.

Introduction to special issue : Reckless vectors: The infecting “other” in HIV/AIDS law ()

Sexuality Research Social Policy, 2005

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Prevalence and Correlates of a Diagnosis of Sexually Transmitted Infection Among Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 2016

Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Aboriginal) people are recognized as a priority popu... more Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Aboriginal) people are recognized as a priority population for the control of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) in Australia. This article reports the prevalence of self-reported STI diagnoses and their correlates among Aboriginal people aged 16 to 29 years. Results were analyzed from a survey conducted between 2011 and 2013 at regular community events. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression models were used to identify the correlates of a history of STI diagnosis among participants who reported being sexually active and ever having been tested for STIs. All analyses were stratified by sex. Of the 2877 participants in this study, 2320, comprising 60% females, self-reported ever having had vaginal or anal sex, and a further subset of 1589 (68%) reported ever being tested for any of the following STIs: chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, or trichomonas. Within this latter group, the proportion who reported that they had had a positive STI diagnosis was 25%. In multivariate analysis, women who reported sexual debut before the age of 16 years (prevalence ratio [PR], 1.53; 95% confidence interval, 1.16-2.81; P < 0.05), ever having had oral sex (PR, 2.66; 1.47-4.82; P < 0.001), inconsistent condom use in the past 12 months (PR, 1.71; 1.13-2.58; P < 0.012), having had sex with someone they had just met (adjusted odds ratio, 1.74; 1.21-2.50; P < 0.003), and using ecstasy (PR, 1.81; 1.16-2.81; P < 0.009) were significantly associated with a self-reported history of an STI diagnosis. For men, being older (25-29 years; PR, 2.10; 1.10-3.96; P < 0.023), being gay or bisexual (PR, 2.22; 1.16-4.27; P < 0.016), not using a condom during last sex, (PR, 1.74; 1.10-2.76; P < 0.019), past ecstasy use (PR, 1.88; 1.11-3.20; P < 0.019), and injecting drug use (PR, 2.81; 1.35-5.88); P < 0.006) were independent predictors of ever reporting being diagnosed as having an STI. In the first community-based survey of this population, a self-reported history of ever being diagnosed as having prevalent STIs was common in sexually active young Aboriginal people who reported STI testing in the past. This population requires targeted education and health service interventions to address the high burden of STIs.

From Z to A: Žižek at the Antipodes

Bioethics, May 20, 2015

Refugees, as forced migrants, have suffered displacement under conditions not of their own choosi... more Refugees, as forced migrants, have suffered displacement under conditions not of their own choosing. In 2000 there were thought to be 22 million refugees of whom 6 million were HIV positive. While the New Zealand government has accepted a number of HIV positive refugees from sub-Saharan Africa, this hospitality is under threat due to negative public and political opinion. Epidemic conditions raise the social stakes attached to sexual exchanges, contagion becomes a major figure in social relationships and social production, and the fears of the contagious nature of those 'just off the plane' connect refugees to an equally deep-seated fear of racial miscegenation.

Enhancing HIV prevention requires addressing the complex relationship between prevention and treatment

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 17441690802191329, Feb 1, 2009

Globally each year, HIV continues to infect millions of people, and the number of people living w... more Globally each year, HIV continues to infect millions of people, and the number of people living with HIV and AIDS grows. While there has been an increase in funding for HIV and AIDS, there is a growing gap between the funds available and the funds needed for both prevention and treatment. Yet, one of the means of closing that gap - preventing new infections - has slipped down the agenda. In arguing for a significant intensification of the HIV prevention response, and the relevance of a strong social stance within this response, this paper addresses the need to manage finding a balance between prevention and treatment and care. Not only is there not enough being spent on HIV prevention, but also in some instances, the prevention agenda has been hijacked by those who favour morally conservative, but ineffective, HIV prevention strategies. We argue that effective prevention needs to be firmly located within the everyday realities affecting communities and societies, and needs to focus on what is known to work. In particular, we need to move beyond a public health underpinned by neo-liberal notions of agency and individual responsibility to a public health that recognises the collective nature of epidemics, and works with communities and networks to transform social relations. This latter, more 'social' public health, is concerned with the social, political and economic factors that produce HIV risk and responses to it. Contrary to what some might suggest, HIV prevention has not failed, rather, governments and donors have failed HIV prevention.

Behandlung von Atemst�rungen im Schlaf

Der Pneumologe, 2005

A study protocol for a cluster randomised trial for the prevention of chronic suppurative otitis media in children in Jumla, Nepal

BMC Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders, 2015

Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media (CSOM) is the commonest cause of preventable deafness, affecting... more Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media (CSOM) is the commonest cause of preventable deafness, affecting 164 million people worldwide, 90 % of whom live in low resource countries, such as Nepal. Simple, inexpensive treatment of acute otitis media can prevent the development of CSOM and its sequelae: deafness, abscess, encephalitis, and, rarely, death. CSOM is a disease of poverty and its social determinants: low parental education, overcrowding, poor hygiene and malnutrition. Previous studies have established economic, socio-cultural and geographic barriers to care seeking for childhood illness in the developing world and, in particular, in Nepal. The ultimate aim of this research is to improve the ear health of the children in Jumla, Nepal. The primary outcome is an increase in mother's knowledge, attitude and practice regarding ear disease in their children. The secondary outcome is a reduction in the prevalence of CSOM in their children. Using 56 existing women's self-help groups, sample size, adjusting for clustering and data analysis, is set at 15 groups per arm. A baseline survey of 30 randomly selected groups will be performed, consisting of a knowledge, attitude and practice questionnaire aimed at women who participate in self-help groups, as well as examination of their children's ears. This will be followed by random allocation, stratified by geography, into 15 intervention and 15 control groups. The intervention groups will participate in three interactive educational sessions at their regular monthly meetings based on World Health Organisation Primary Ear and Hearing Resource, Basic Level. The control groups will continue their usual monthly group meetings. At 12 months, a follow-up assessment of both control and intervention groups will be performed, with a repeat women's survey and repeat ear examination of the children. Data analysis will be by intention to treat and clustering will be considered at every stage. Cluster level data will be analysed using t-test and individual level data using mixed effects linear regression and logistic regression random effects model as appropriate. Despite its remote location, Jumla has a vibrant network of health posts and community workers. This project uses existing, local resources and will be undertaken in a way that is consistent with the cultural understanding of the local community in Jumla and acceptable to local care-givers. Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Register, ACTRN12614000231640.

Not with bombs, but with dialectical materialism : the history of the Spartacist League of New Zealand, the first revolutionary Trotskyist organisation in New Zealand /

Publikationsansicht. 31756729. Not with bombs, but with dialectical materialism : the history of ... more Publikationsansicht. 31756729. Not with bombs, but with dialectical materialism : the history of the Spartacist League of New Zealand, the first revolutionary Trotskyist organisation in New Zealand / (1990). Worth, Heather. Abstract. Cover title.. ...

AIDS and the Other: Race, gender and social policy in the Peter Mwai affair

Social Policy Journal of New Zealand

Heather Worth. New Zealand AIDS Foundation. ... Through all of this "panic&q... more Heather Worth. New Zealand AIDS Foundation. ... Through all of this "panic", AIDS itself came to be seen as something external to New Zealand, in this case as something from "out of Africa" which has been imported to infect the bodies of New Zealand women. ...

Bad-Assed Honeys with a Difference: South Auckland Fa’afafine talk about identity

Modernism's crisis of legitimation, a crisis signaled in the term'postmodernism', ... more Modernism's crisis of legitimation, a crisis signaled in the term'postmodernism', registers the faltering recognition that this complicitous kinship of gendered binary divisions cannot be accepted complacently. If meaning is produced rather than simply given, then sexual ...

Screaming Sisters and Phallic Mothers: Murray Ball's Sisterhood

SITES The Journal of Contemporary French Studies

A question of pleasure: Foucault, sexuality and the erotic

Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or may be available... more Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or may be available through Inter-Library Loan. The question of pleasure is central to the later work of Michel Foucault. In setting up this question of pleasure Foucault makes an opposition ...

Up on K Rd on a Saturday Night

Venereology: official publication of the National Venereology Council of Australia

How valid are claims that crystal methamphetamine use is causing an increase in 'unsafe' sex?

The Fiji Crimes Decree: what impact will it have on sex work in Fiji?

From Z to A: Zizek in the Antipodes

Dissonant Discourses: HIV-Positive Refugees and the Media in New Zealand

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 14680770220122873, Dec 10, 2010

... Because they are displaced and dispossessed, refugees have special needs and, thus, have ... ... more ... Because they are displaced and dispossessed, refugees have special needs and, thus, have ... Those countries that have, in the past decades, introduced immigration policies that allow for ... This discourse of monetarism robbed advocates for the refugees of the powerful discourse ...

Dissonant Discourses: HIV-Positive Refugees and the Media in New Zealand

Feminist Media Studies, 2002

... Because they are displaced and dispossessed, refugees have special needs and, thus, have ... ... more ... Because they are displaced and dispossessed, refugees have special needs and, thus, have ... Those countries that have, in the past decades, introduced immigration policies that allow for ... This discourse of monetarism robbed advocates for the refugees of the powerful discourse ...

HIV/AIDS and the African Refugee Education Program in New Zealand

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1521 Aeap 15 5 346 23819, Jun 1, 2005

In the past decade, the resettlement of African HIV-positive refugees in New Zealand has meant dr... more In the past decade, the resettlement of African HIV-positive refugees in New Zealand has meant dramatically changing patterns of new HIV infection. This increase in heterosexually acquired HIV has been met by mounting disquiet on the part of the public, politicians, and health officials. The voices of the refugees themselves have been lost in this debate. This article discusses the experiences of African refugees with HIV, being in New Zealand, and the establishment of the National HIV/AIDS Refugee Health Education Program, designed to meet the needs of African communities in New Zealand.

Introduction to special issue : Reckless vectors: The infecting “other” in HIV/AIDS law ()

Sexuality Research Social Policy, 2005

RefDoc Bienvenue - Welcome. Refdoc est un service / is powered by. ...

Prevalence and Correlates of a Diagnosis of Sexually Transmitted Infection Among Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 2016

Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Aboriginal) people are recognized as a priority popu... more Young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Aboriginal) people are recognized as a priority population for the control of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) in Australia. This article reports the prevalence of self-reported STI diagnoses and their correlates among Aboriginal people aged 16 to 29 years. Results were analyzed from a survey conducted between 2011 and 2013 at regular community events. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression models were used to identify the correlates of a history of STI diagnosis among participants who reported being sexually active and ever having been tested for STIs. All analyses were stratified by sex. Of the 2877 participants in this study, 2320, comprising 60% females, self-reported ever having had vaginal or anal sex, and a further subset of 1589 (68%) reported ever being tested for any of the following STIs: chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, or trichomonas. Within this latter group, the proportion who reported that they had had a positive STI diagnosis was 25%. In multivariate analysis, women who reported sexual debut before the age of 16 years (prevalence ratio [PR], 1.53; 95% confidence interval, 1.16-2.81; P < 0.05), ever having had oral sex (PR, 2.66; 1.47-4.82; P < 0.001), inconsistent condom use in the past 12 months (PR, 1.71; 1.13-2.58; P < 0.012), having had sex with someone they had just met (adjusted odds ratio, 1.74; 1.21-2.50; P < 0.003), and using ecstasy (PR, 1.81; 1.16-2.81; P < 0.009) were significantly associated with a self-reported history of an STI diagnosis. For men, being older (25-29 years; PR, 2.10; 1.10-3.96; P < 0.023), being gay or bisexual (PR, 2.22; 1.16-4.27; P < 0.016), not using a condom during last sex, (PR, 1.74; 1.10-2.76; P < 0.019), past ecstasy use (PR, 1.88; 1.11-3.20; P < 0.019), and injecting drug use (PR, 2.81; 1.35-5.88); P < 0.006) were independent predictors of ever reporting being diagnosed as having an STI. In the first community-based survey of this population, a self-reported history of ever being diagnosed as having prevalent STIs was common in sexually active young Aboriginal people who reported STI testing in the past. This population requires targeted education and health service interventions to address the high burden of STIs.

From Z to A: Žižek at the Antipodes

Bioethics, May 20, 2015

Refugees, as forced migrants, have suffered displacement under conditions not of their own choosi... more Refugees, as forced migrants, have suffered displacement under conditions not of their own choosing. In 2000 there were thought to be 22 million refugees of whom 6 million were HIV positive. While the New Zealand government has accepted a number of HIV positive refugees from sub-Saharan Africa, this hospitality is under threat due to negative public and political opinion. Epidemic conditions raise the social stakes attached to sexual exchanges, contagion becomes a major figure in social relationships and social production, and the fears of the contagious nature of those 'just off the plane' connect refugees to an equally deep-seated fear of racial miscegenation.

Enhancing HIV prevention requires addressing the complex relationship between prevention and treatment

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 17441690802191329, Feb 1, 2009

Globally each year, HIV continues to infect millions of people, and the number of people living w... more Globally each year, HIV continues to infect millions of people, and the number of people living with HIV and AIDS grows. While there has been an increase in funding for HIV and AIDS, there is a growing gap between the funds available and the funds needed for both prevention and treatment. Yet, one of the means of closing that gap - preventing new infections - has slipped down the agenda. In arguing for a significant intensification of the HIV prevention response, and the relevance of a strong social stance within this response, this paper addresses the need to manage finding a balance between prevention and treatment and care. Not only is there not enough being spent on HIV prevention, but also in some instances, the prevention agenda has been hijacked by those who favour morally conservative, but ineffective, HIV prevention strategies. We argue that effective prevention needs to be firmly located within the everyday realities affecting communities and societies, and needs to focus on what is known to work. In particular, we need to move beyond a public health underpinned by neo-liberal notions of agency and individual responsibility to a public health that recognises the collective nature of epidemics, and works with communities and networks to transform social relations. This latter, more 'social' public health, is concerned with the social, political and economic factors that produce HIV risk and responses to it. Contrary to what some might suggest, HIV prevention has not failed, rather, governments and donors have failed HIV prevention.

Behandlung von Atemst�rungen im Schlaf

Der Pneumologe, 2005

A study protocol for a cluster randomised trial for the prevention of chronic suppurative otitis media in children in Jumla, Nepal

BMC Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders, 2015

Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media (CSOM) is the commonest cause of preventable deafness, affecting... more Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media (CSOM) is the commonest cause of preventable deafness, affecting 164 million people worldwide, 90 % of whom live in low resource countries, such as Nepal. Simple, inexpensive treatment of acute otitis media can prevent the development of CSOM and its sequelae: deafness, abscess, encephalitis, and, rarely, death. CSOM is a disease of poverty and its social determinants: low parental education, overcrowding, poor hygiene and malnutrition. Previous studies have established economic, socio-cultural and geographic barriers to care seeking for childhood illness in the developing world and, in particular, in Nepal. The ultimate aim of this research is to improve the ear health of the children in Jumla, Nepal. The primary outcome is an increase in mother's knowledge, attitude and practice regarding ear disease in their children. The secondary outcome is a reduction in the prevalence of CSOM in their children. Using 56 existing women's self-help groups, sample size, adjusting for clustering and data analysis, is set at 15 groups per arm. A baseline survey of 30 randomly selected groups will be performed, consisting of a knowledge, attitude and practice questionnaire aimed at women who participate in self-help groups, as well as examination of their children's ears. This will be followed by random allocation, stratified by geography, into 15 intervention and 15 control groups. The intervention groups will participate in three interactive educational sessions at their regular monthly meetings based on World Health Organisation Primary Ear and Hearing Resource, Basic Level. The control groups will continue their usual monthly group meetings. At 12 months, a follow-up assessment of both control and intervention groups will be performed, with a repeat women's survey and repeat ear examination of the children. Data analysis will be by intention to treat and clustering will be considered at every stage. Cluster level data will be analysed using t-test and individual level data using mixed effects linear regression and logistic regression random effects model as appropriate. Despite its remote location, Jumla has a vibrant network of health posts and community workers. This project uses existing, local resources and will be undertaken in a way that is consistent with the cultural understanding of the local community in Jumla and acceptable to local care-givers. Australia and New Zealand Clinical Trials Register, ACTRN12614000231640.

Not with bombs, but with dialectical materialism : the history of the Spartacist League of New Zealand, the first revolutionary Trotskyist organisation in New Zealand /

Publikationsansicht. 31756729. Not with bombs, but with dialectical materialism : the history of ... more Publikationsansicht. 31756729. Not with bombs, but with dialectical materialism : the history of the Spartacist League of New Zealand, the first revolutionary Trotskyist organisation in New Zealand / (1990). Worth, Heather. Abstract. Cover title.. ...

AIDS and the Other: Race, gender and social policy in the Peter Mwai affair

Social Policy Journal of New Zealand

Heather Worth. New Zealand AIDS Foundation. ... Through all of this "panic&q... more Heather Worth. New Zealand AIDS Foundation. ... Through all of this "panic", AIDS itself came to be seen as something external to New Zealand, in this case as something from "out of Africa" which has been imported to infect the bodies of New Zealand women. ...

Bad-Assed Honeys with a Difference: South Auckland Fa’afafine talk about identity

Modernism's crisis of legitimation, a crisis signaled in the term'postmodernism', ... more Modernism's crisis of legitimation, a crisis signaled in the term'postmodernism', registers the faltering recognition that this complicitous kinship of gendered binary divisions cannot be accepted complacently. If meaning is produced rather than simply given, then sexual ...

Screaming Sisters and Phallic Mothers: Murray Ball's Sisterhood

SITES The Journal of Contemporary French Studies

A question of pleasure: Foucault, sexuality and the erotic

Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or may be available... more Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or may be available through Inter-Library Loan. The question of pleasure is central to the later work of Michel Foucault. In setting up this question of pleasure Foucault makes an opposition ...

Up on K Rd on a Saturday Night

Venereology: official publication of the National Venereology Council of Australia

How valid are claims that crystal methamphetamine use is causing an increase in 'unsafe' sex?

The Fiji Crimes Decree: what impact will it have on sex work in Fiji?

From Z to A: Zizek in the Antipodes