Women's Health in Africa

Issues, Challenges and Opportunities

Chimaraoke Izugbara, Eleanor Covan, Elizabeth Fugate-Whitlock, Chimaraoke Izugbara, Eleanor Covan, Elizabeth Fugate-Whitlock, Chimaraoke O. Izugbara, Eleanor Krassen Covan, Elizabeth Fugate-Whitlock

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317519546
• Topic: Medicina
• Subtopic: Prestazione di assistenza sanitaria

This edited book includes new policy-relevant research on women's health issues in Africa. Scholars explore critical topics from different disciplinary traditions using a variety of research methodologies and data sources. The contributors include African scholars with in-depth knowledge of their home contexts, who can furnish nuanced interpretations of local health issues and trends; international researchers who bring vigorous comparative viewpoints; emerging scholars adding to scientific knowledge; and more established researchers with a deep global knowledge of women's health issues.

The range of women's health issues is vast, including the HIV epidemic and its impacts; domestic violence; the persistence of homebirths; and abortion. In addition, the book investigates emerging health concerns such as CVDs and cancers. Readers will learn that, while old health issues have persisted and assumed new dimensions, newer concerns have materialized and are gaining momentum. The inability of health systems to tackle these issues complicates matters in Africa, creating a sense of desperation that can only be successfully confronted through strong political will and strategic planning, grounded in further research.

This book was originally published as several special issues of Health Care for Women International.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Citation Information
• 1. Introduction: Research on Women’s Health in Africa: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities
• 2. The Whales Beneath the Surface: The Muddled Story of Doing Research with Poor Mothers in a Developing Country
• 3. Gender Differences in the Experiences of HIV/AIDS-Related Stigma: A Qualitative Study in Ghana
• 4. Management of Conflicts Arising From Disclosure of HIV Status Among Married Women in Southwest Nigeria
• 5. Universal Access to HIV Treatment in the Context of Vulnerability: Female Farm Workers in Zimbabwe
• 6. Stories of African HIV+ Women Living in Poverty
• 7. Experiences of Emotional Abuse Among Women Living With HIV and AIDS in Malawi
• 8. Association Between Domestic Violence and HIV Serostatus Among Married and Formerly Married Women in Kenya
• 9. Risk for Family Rejection and Associated Mental Health Outcomes Among Conflict-Affected Adult Women Living in Rural Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
• 10. Intimate Partner Violence and the Utilization of Maternal Health Care Services in Nigeria
• 11. Relationship Difficulties Postrape: Being a Male Intimate Partner of a Female Rape Victim in Cape Town, South Africa
• 12. The Place of Birth in Kafa Zone, Ethiopia
• 13. Women’s Health in Women’s Hands: A Pilot Study Assessing the Feasibility of Providing Women with Medications to Reduce Postpartum Hemorrhage and Sepsis in Rural Tanzania
• 14. What Are the Factors That Interplay From Normal Pregnancy to Near Miss Maternal Morbidity in a Nigerian Tertiary Healthcare Facility?
• 15. Comparison Between an Independent Midwifery Program and a District Hospital in Rural Tanzania: Observations Regarding the Treatment of Female Patients
• 16. Food Beliefs and Practices During Pregnancy in Ghana: Implications for Maternal Health Interventions
• 17. Occupational Types and Antenatal Care Attendance Among Women in Ghana
• 18. Modernization and Development: Impact on Health Care Decision-Making in Uganda
• 19. Policy Strategies to Improve Maternal Health Services Delivery and Outcomes in Anambra State, Nigeria
• 20. Gender Equality as a Means to Improve Maternal and Child Health in Africa
• 21. Rethinking How to Promote Maternity Care-Seeking: Factors Associated With Institutional Delivery in Guinea
• 22. Teenage Sexuality, HIV Risk, and the Politics of Being “Duted”: Perceptions and Dynamics in a South African Township
• 23. Emotional and Psychosocial Aspects of Menstrual Poverty in Resource-Poor Settings: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences of Adolescent Girls in an Informal Settlement in Nairobi
• 24. Effects of a Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Program in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• 25. Breast Cancer Screening Among Women of Child-Bearing Age
• 26. Cervical Cancer in Developing Countries: Effective Screening and Preventive Strategies With an Application in Rwanda
• 27. South African Mothers’ Coping With an Unplanned Caesarean Section
• 28. “I May Not Say We Really Have a Method, It Is Gambling Work”: Knowledge and Acceptability of Safer Conception Methods Among Providers and HIV Clients in Uganda
• 29. “Abortion—It Is My Own Body”: Women’s Narratives About Influences on Their Abortion Decisions in Ghana
• 30. “He Doesn’t Love Me Less. He Loves Me More”: Perceptions of Women Living With HIV/AIDS of Partner Support in Childbearing Decision-Making
• 31. “Our Hands Are Tied Up”: Current State of Safer Conception Services Suggests the Need for an Integrated Care Model
• 32. “My Legs Affect Me a Lot. … I Can No Longer Walk to the Forest to Fetch Firewood”: Challenges Related to Health and the Performance of Daily Tasks for Older Women in a High HIV Context
• 33. Grandparents Fostering Orphans: Influences of Protective Factors on Their Health and Well-Being
• Index