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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"South African men"”.
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Fatherlessness among young black South African men
Scholars confirm that a huge proportion of black South African men are not participating in their children's upbringing, as a result, children face various challenges that impede their wellbeing. This study is of the view that there is still a need for further investigations to explore the effects …
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Identifying genetic biomarkers for diagnosis of prostate cancer in South African men
… (PCa) is the leading cancer diagnosis amongst South African men. The incidence of PCa is 68.0 per 100 000 Age Standardized Rate (ASR) and the mortality rates are 27.9 per 100 000 ASR; Globocan 2018. Diagnosis of PCa is based on a combination of digital rectal examination, prostate-specific …
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Investigating racial differences in clinical and pathological features of prostate cancer in South African men
… and pathological features of prostate cancer in men from different racial groups in the Western Cape in an attempt to define the characteristics of the disease locally. Specifically we wanted to compare black with coloured and white patients.
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Discourses of language acquisition and identity in the life histories of four white South African men, fluent in isiXhosa
… in the life histories of four multilingual white South African men, who became fluent in the African language of isiXhosa in the racially-divided world of Apartheid South Africa, at a time when law and policy made fluency in an African language unusual for whites. Theories used within the 'social …
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Spirometric and gas transfer measurements among normal adult South African men : an investigation into anthropoemtric, socio-economic, racial and environmental factors influencing lung function
… socio-economic, racial and environmental factors influencing lung function. In modern clinical practice the data derived from pulmonary function tests are an integral part of the evaluation of pulmonary disease states. Such data may shed light on the nature of the disease state, the …
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Reappraising men's sexual behaviors and gendered attitudes from the sexual-history narratives of South African men and women in a time of HIV/AIDS.
While the frequent positioning of men's sexual behaviours as driving the HIV epidemic in South Africa has generated much interest in men's sexuality, much research to date has presented men as a homogenous group, or treats male sexuality as a set of isolated, individually driven behaviours. As a …
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Microvascular endothelial function in a multi-ethnic group of apparently healthy South African men and women: Implications for testing and the relationship between insulin resistance and microvascular reactivity
… profiles that exist within a multi-ethnic South African population. Moreover, it has been shown that insulin resistance is associated with microvascular endothelial dysfunction in obese persons4, but it is unclear whether this relationship is mediated by body fat in apparently healthy …
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Longitudinal study to assess the prevalence of hypogonadism in HIV-infected South African men and its association with bone density, body composition, metabolic abnormalities (dysglycaemia, dyslipidaemia) and quality of life.
… The prevalence of hypogonadism in HIVinfected South African men is unknown. We examined the prevalence of hypogonadism in HIV-infected men before and 12 months after the initiation of ART. Methods: This is a sub-study of the McHAART Study designed to investigate the metabolic complications of …
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"If You Don't Take a Stand for Your Life, Who Will Help You?": A Qualitative Study of Men's Engagement with HIV/AIDS Care in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
<p>The needs of South African men with HIV are often overlooked in providing healthcare for people living with HIV/AIDS, leading to unique needs and experiences for men seeking HIV/AIDS healthcare. Compounding this phenomenon are norms of masculinity guiding these men's behaviors as they navigate …
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White men's talk about gender-based violence in South Africa: A thematic narrative analysis of the stories told about race, class, and gender
Gender-based violence (GBV) research in South Africa has been critiqued for producing and perpetuating trauma-saturated narratives that situate gendered violence in poor black individuals, families, and communities (Boonzaier, 2017, 2018; Boonzaier et al., 2020). Young, black, working class men, in …
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Investigating determinants of access to formal credit - South African women entrepreneurs in the informal sector
Financial inclusion remains vital for the empowerment of women. Women, particularly in the informal sector, face the challenge of access to formal credit. The aim of the study is to investigate the determinants of access to formal credit by women in the informal sector. A logit regression model is …
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The experience of money and the domestic moral economy of a group of young adults in Khayelitsha and their transition to adulthood
… sharing and spending among a cohort of young South African men and women, aged 25 to 35, in Khayelitsha, a mainly poor, Black African residential area of Cape Town. As less skilled ‘youth,' they are rarely able to sustain regular employment and therefore remain intermittently dependent on …
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Constructing social reality in conversation : a generic and transitivity analysis of life history texts
… history interviews of two gay black HIV-positive South African men to explore how speakers use contextually-available linguistic resources to negotiate meaning. Linguistic resources of speech genre, story type, and transitivity offer structural options to speakers but also introduce constraints. …
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Exploring the relationship between sexual risk behaviours and HIV Status awareness among men in South Africa: analysis of data from the 2017 South African National house-based HIV prevalence, incidence and behaviour survey
South Africa has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates globally, with men being a key population at risk due to risky sexual behaviours and lower HIV status awareness compared to women. This study explored the relationships between sexual risk behaviours and HIV status awareness among 1,630 …
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From #MenAreTrash to #MensConference: Networked masculinities in South African Twitter
Despite the extensive literature on men and masculinities in South Africa, researchers have largely overlooked the role of digitally mediated networked publics in the coproduction and negotiation of contemporary masculinities. This dissertation attempts to fill the gap by engaging in an exploration …
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Investigating the susceptibility of foreskin myeloid cells to ex vivo HIV infection
… receptor, DC-SIGN and Siglec-1 as HIV attachment factors and (iii) Investigating the HIV susceptibility of foreskin epidermal cells using an optimised ex vivo pluricellular foreskin infection model of suspension cells. Methodology: Foreskin specimen were obtained from 60 seronegative adult …
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A study of the genital microbiotas of black South African women and men: associations with human papillomavirus and HIV infections
… is causally associated with cervical cancer in women and some penile cancers in men. The role of the complex genital microbiota in HPV infection has not been extensively addressed. This study characterised the genital microbiotas of heterosexually-active Black South African women and men, …
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Relationship between socio-economic status and cardiovascular disease in black South Africans living in a rural and an urban community
… in developing countries on this including South Africa has been inconsistent. In addition, there is scant information on differences in socio-economic patterning of CVD risk factors between urban and rural areas in South Africa.Aim: To examine the association between SES indicators and CVD …