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| Title: | Conjugal Morality and Sexual Vulnerability: The Ellembelle Case |
| Author: | Frimpong-Nnuroh, Douglas |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Periodical: | Research Review (ISSN 0855-4412) |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 27-32 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Ghana West Africa |
| Subjects: | Nzima sexuality sexually transmitted diseases AIDS Cultural Roles Marital Relations and Nuptiality Demographics Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights Health, Nutrition, and Medicine sociology Morality marriage Ellembelle (African people) |
| Abstract: | The Ellembelle Nzema of Western Ghana believe that the institution of marriage is sacred and must also endure. In this respect, the proprietary rights of husband and wife must be protected, hence the fashioning out of a conjugal code which delineates acceptable sexual behaviour, parenting and domestic responsibilities. In Ellembelle, certain risk factors and traditional practices may facilitate the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, such as gonorrhea and syphilis, but also HIV/AIDS. These factors include the permissibility of sex among people who intend to marry, the polygynous nature of Ellembelle society, widowhood rites that enjoin a widow to sleep with a virtual stranger after her statutory period of mourning, female migration to Franzie (Côte d'Ivoire) and the low use of condoms. AIDS in Ellembelle is real. Until recently, women who returned home from Abidjan terminally ill and died were believed to be accursed. The thrust of counselling sevices at the hospitals and clinics is to educate people on the risk behaviour that leads to HIV/AIDS. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |