Grandmothers called out of retirement: the challenges for African women facing AIDS today.
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The article is based on AIDS research supervised by Wane and on journal entries made by Kavuma during her medical anthropology internship at AIDS clinics in two capital cities--Windhoek Namibia and Kampala Uganda. The experiences reflected in the journal entries in Namibia and Uganda provide first-hand information on what is currently happening at the grassroots level. Edna Kavuma visited local AIDS governmental organizations (GO) and non-governmental organizations (NGO) working to combat AIDS and interviewed several employees from the different organizations and clinics. She paid attention to interactions between clients and care providers to client’s reactions and to the service available for HIV/AIDS patients. She also recorded the ways in which women in Uganda are creating awareness about AIDS through dramatization and networking. These entries make women’s work on AIDS visible. This article concludes by posing the question: how can local communities and African governments in conjunction with the international community including Canada develop strategies that are culturally and socially appropriate for dealing with AIDS in Africa? This article interrogates the erosion of cultural norms practices and values that historically sustained the social fabric of African communities and it considers the changing role of grandmothers in the African family as sons and daughters succumb to AIDS. However it is important to point out from the outset that we do not wish to romanticize the situation in Africa and do acknowledge that pre-colonial societies were characterized by various forms of violence. (excerpt)
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it