Women’s Role in the Prevention of Sexual Transmission of HIV within Marriage in Indonesia
- DOI
- 10.2991/iclick-18.2019.4How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- HIV, Prevention, sexual, transmission,women
- Abstract
This paper discusses intersecting issue of the sustainable development goals aspects: gender and health. Drawing from the case of Warga Peduli AIDS ( Local Residents Concerned about AIDS) in Bandung, West Java, this paper presented an empirical evidence on how women in Indonesia play significant role in the promotion of health and wellbeing for all, particularly in halting the spread of HIV infection. In Indonesia, injecting drugs and heterosexual activity have become two main modes of HIV transmission. The new cases of infection among married women keep increasing recently. Yet, there has been no model for prevention of sexual transmission of HIV in Indonesia that fit in the sociocultural context because sexual act is considered a private concern. While, the Indonesian government faces the dilemma of negotiating conflicting values in setting priorities and implementing programs for prevention of sexual transmission of HIV; a group of women in Bandung successfully tailored actions for this prevention. This paper draws from a qualitative research using ethnographic approach to examine the actions of female activists of Warga Peduli AIDS in Bandung. This research finds that the actions exemplify a model of local response to the HIV epidemic and demonstrate the significant role of women in the HIV prevention. Women play their important roles as a bridge between communities and formal programs, particularly in the effort to halt the infection from being transmitted through sexual contact.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Erna Herawati PY - 2019/07 DA - 2019/07 TI - Women’s Role in the Prevention of Sexual Transmission of HIV within Marriage in Indonesia BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Life, Innovation, Change and Knowledge (ICLICK 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 17 EP - 21 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iclick-18.2019.4 DO - 10.2991/iclick-18.2019.4 ID - Herawati2019/07 ER -