Shifting paradigms and the politics of AIDS in Zambia

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Title:	Shifting paradigms and the politics of AIDS in Zambia
Author:	Frank, Emily
Year:	2009
Periodical:	African Studies Review (ISSN 1555-2462)
Volume:	52
Issue:	3
Pages:	33-53
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Zambia
Subjects:	AIDS customs Tonga (Zambia, Zimbabwe)
External link:	http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/african_studies_review/v052/52.3.frank.pdf
Abstract:	This article explores how international discourses on AIDS prevention have been incorporated into national-level programmes that promote particular lifestyle and livelihood strategies in Zambia, particularly within the realms of wife inheritance, widowhood, and marriage. In response, Zambian communities have recast these narratives to inform local political economies, identities, and struggles for power. Often community and national-level efforts work at odds with each other, as each seeks to legitimize various moralities and codes of behaviour. At the local level actors choose the strategies that most effectively mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS and also enhance their overall well-being. The author was a resident of three distinct communities in Southern Province, Zambia, for eleven months in 2004 and again for several weeks in 2006. The three communities are characterized, respectively, as rural, urban and a worker community located on a commercial farm. The communities are located in an area where the Tonga ethnic group dominates. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited]