HIV/AIDS through the eyes of young Africans: an analysis of fictional narratives

非洲年轻人眼中的艾滋病毒/艾滋病：对虚构叙事的分析

• 批准号: 7338270
• 负责人: S KATE WINSKELL
• 金额: $ 7.65万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-17 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7338270
• 关键词: AIDS education/prevention; AIDS/HIV problem; Accounting; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Adult; Africa; Africa South of the Sahara; African; Age; Archives; Burkina Faso; Classification; Cognitive; Communication; Communication Programs; Community Developments; Complement; Country; Data Sources; Depth; Dimensions; Discipline; Drama; Epidemic; Ethnography; Evolution; Exercise stress test; Eye; Film; Gender; Goals; HIV; HIV Infections; Infection; Intervention; Life; Methodology; Modeling; Prevalence; Prevention; Public Health; Radio; Recommendation; Research; Research Methodology; Risk; Role playing therapy; Sampling; Sex Behavior; Sexuality; Soaps; Societies; Source; Stigmata; Swaziland; Thinking; Time; Value Meaning; Woman; Writing; Youth; abstracting; base; comparative; experience; improved; innovation; insight; male; novel; programs; research study; social; social stigma; transmission process; trend

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of this study is to improve HIV/AIDS communication programs for young people in sub-Saharan Africa. The proposed research will advance that goal by increasing understanding of the sociocultural context of HIV/AIDS and youth sexual behavior, with particular focus on cognitive and ideological dimensions. The study involves the secondary analysis of a sample of fictional narratives about HIV/AIDS written by young Africans in 2005 as submissions to a scriptwriting contest. Traditionally, HIV/AIDS education in Africa has focused on providing young people with factual information about modes of transmission and means of prevention. In their creative writing about AIDS, young people contextualize that abstract information within a story of their own invention. This exercise tests their understanding of the basic facts about HIV/AIDS. It also calls upon them to draw on their own lived or imagined experience and on other culturally-determined sources of social understanding to create context, meaning, and values. The stories thus provide unique insights into young people's explanatory models about HIV/AIDS, and into their appropriation of dominant cultural norms around gender, sexuality, and stigma. The project's specific aims include theoretical and methodological components: (1) to analyze how young Africans imagine, represent, and understand HIV/AIDS as a social phenomenon; (2) to compare young people's social representations of HIV/AIDS in African countries with contrasting epidemiological profiles; (3) to develop innovative methodologies for the analysis of fictional narratives as a source of understanding of sociocultural context. The research methodology is qualitative, with an emphasis on in-depth understanding of young people's representations of HIV/AIDS. A systematic analysis of a sample of 840 (~4%) of the 22,000 stories written in 2005 will be undertaken. The sample will be drawn from stories submitted in the West African Republic of Burkina Faso and the Southern African kingdom of Swaziland (adult HIV prevalence 2% and 33% respectively). This cross-cultural research will complement and enrich existing epidemiological and ethnographic studies on youth and HIV/AIDS in Africa. It will identify strengths and weaknesses of HIV communication for young people in Africa to date, and formulate recommendations for improved practice.

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究的长期目标是改善撒哈拉以南非洲年轻人的艾滋病毒/艾滋病传播计划。拟议的研究将通过增进对艾滋病毒/艾滋病和青少年性行为的社会文化背景的理解来推进这一目标，特别关注认知和意识形态层面。该研究涉及对 2005 年非洲年轻人撰写的有关艾滋病毒/艾滋病的虚构故事样本进行二次分析，这些故事是提交给剧本创作比赛的。传统上，非洲的艾滋病毒/艾滋病教育重点是向年轻人提供有关传播方式和预防手段的事实信息。在有关艾滋病的创意写作中，年轻人将这些抽象信息融入到他们自己发明的故事中。这项练习测试他们对艾滋病毒/艾滋病基本事实的理解。它还要求他们利用自己的生活或想象的经验以及其他文化决定的社会理解来源来创造背景、意义和价值观。因此，这些故事为年轻人关于艾滋病毒/艾滋病的解释模型以及他们对性别、性取向和耻辱的主流文化规范的利用提供了独特的见解。该项目的具体目标包括理论和方法组成部分：(1) 分析非洲年轻人如何想象、代表和理解艾滋病毒/艾滋病作为一种社会现象； (2) 将非洲国家年轻人艾滋病毒/艾滋病的社会代表性与不同的流行病学特征进行比较； (3) 开发创新的方法来分析虚构叙事，作为理解社会文化背景的来源。研究方法是定性的，重点是深入了解年轻人对艾滋病毒/艾滋病的看法。 将对 2005 年撰写的 22,000 个故事中的 840 个（~4%）样本进行系统分析。 样本将从西非布基纳法索共和国和南部非洲斯威士兰王国提交的故事中抽取（成人艾滋病毒感染率分别为 2% 和 33%）。 这项跨文化研究将补充和丰富现有的关于非洲青年和艾滋病毒/艾滋病的流行病学和人种学研究。它将确定迄今为止非洲年轻人艾滋病毒传播的优势和劣势，并提出改进实践的建议。