Use of Effective Family Planning Methods and Frequency of Sex among HIV-infec…

Background: Frequency of sex, contraceptive use and HIV infection are key determinants of fertility. Use of an effective family planning (EFP) method (injectable, oral, intra-uterine contraceptive…

Rule-guided Expression: Gender Dissent across Mediated Literary Works

This paper is concerned with the examination of rule-guided cultural and thematic battles enacted by women writers in two historical moments—the late nineteenth- and early twenty-first centuriesâ…

African Women: Voicing Feminisms and Democratic Futures

"The need to support the cause of feminism and social justice in Africa has never been stronger than it is under the present condition of chronic neocolonialism. News about modern Africa today shou…

Knowledge and attitudes about HIV infection and prevention of mother to child…

Background: HIV prevalence is high among South African women of reproductive age and transmission of HIV from mothers to children is a concern. This study ascertained the level of knowledge about…

Maternal health service disparities across incomes and implications on preven…

About 69% of people living with HIV globally and over 90% of the children who acquired HIV infection are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite this, promising results have been observed, especially over t…

Bilingualism and Language Shift in Western Cape Communities

This paper considers a number of pertinent sociolinguistic aspects of a distinct process of language shift recently noted in some historically Afrikaans first language (L1) communities established …

African Feminist Scholars in Women's Studies: Negotiating Spaces of Dislocati…

This paper examines some of the problems and dilemmas that African women scholars face in U.S. academic institutions: how such experiences inform the nature of their relationships with colleagues a…

Report of the African Women's Regional Consultation Meeting on Aid Effectiven…

"On May 26-27, 2008, FEMNET, in collaboration with AWEPON, AWDF, Action Aid International-Africa and UNIFEM Africa Section organised a regional consultation for African women's organisations on the…

When I dare to be powerful": On the Road to a Sexual Rights Movement in East …

This publication breaks the silence regarding women's sexuality. Governments, women's rights activists and other social movements, often fail to understand the connection between sex work, forced e…

Women Leading Liberia

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