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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Zimbabwean women"”.
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Cross border trade as a survival strategy in SADC : a study of Zimbabwean women traders
This research explores the extent to which Zimbabwean national policies and more broadly SADC affect informal trade and informal traders. Whilst SADC governments claim a desire to fight poverty, the organisation at the same time is pursuing policies that are obstructive to poverty alleviation. This …
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An exploratory study on the perceptions of Zimbabwean women activists regarding the Domestic Violence Act (2007)
… study was to explore the perceptions of Zimbabwe women activists regarding the Domestic Violence Act (2007) in that country. The study surveyed fourteen women activists in Zimbabwe to determine their perceptions on the strengths and weaknesses of the Act, the challenges of implementing the Act, …
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Migrant women's access to public health care services in Makhado, Limpopo: a case of Zimbabwean women
Migrant women are often omitted within the migrant discourse/research, with that in mind, the research study brings to the fore migrant women's experiences when accessing public health care services within underdeveloped communities. The study explored Zimbabwean migrant women's experiences in …
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Trends and determinants of contraceptive use and method choice among young Zimbabwean women from 1988 to 2015
… fertility increased from 103 births per 1 000 women in 1988 to 110 births per 1 000 women in 2015. The study aims to examine the trends in contraceptive use, unmet need, method choice, and determinants of contraceptive use and method choice among young women aged 15-24 in Zimbabwe from 1988 to …
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(Re)constructions of the Self and the Nation in Selected Auto/biographies of South African and Zimbabwean Women
… and interrogates auto/biographies of six African women in the ways in which their selves and the nation are constructed. The selected autobiographies and biographies are largely by and about African women with some measure of political power and or relatively successful career. The study employed …
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Apolipoprotein E variants, plasma lipids, lipoproteins and dysApolipoprotein E variants, plasma lipids, lipoproteins and dysβLipoproteinaemia during pregnancy in Zimbabwean women.
This study of pregnant women in Zimbabwe therefore set itself the following aims: To describe lipid and lipoproteins during and after pregnancy, To examine the prevalence of apoE variants, To evaluate dysβlipoproteinaemia in pregnancy, The correlation between dysβplipoproteinaemia and the apoE …
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Single Mother, Migrant Domestic Workers: Exploring the coping experience of low-income Zimbabwean women raising their children in South Africa
Zimbabweans are the largest migrant group in South Africa, and many of them are women who end up working informally as domestic workers (DWs). This study investigated the way that Zimbabwean single mother migrant domestic workers (MDWs) experience and cope with the burden of care. Specifically, it …
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An exploration of the experiences of Zimbabwean women informal cross-border traders at the Zimbabwean/South African BeitBridge border post
… between Zimbabwe and South Africa locates women as partners of men, rather than as economic agents in their own terms. Research on cross-border trade, however, has theorized that gender dynamics may empower women traders as they learn to negotiate new business networks and as they develop …
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Representations of post-2000 displacement in Zimbabwean women's literature
This study examines literature by Zimbabwean women that explores evictions and migrations of people from 2000 to 2009 when the crisis subsided with the enactment of the Global Political Agreement (GPA).
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Colonialism and Christianity: Factors Affecting the Evolution of Women's Rights in Uganda and Zimbabwe
… project is intended to study the evolution of women's rights in Uganda andZimbabwe, specifically within the context of colonialism. Research into these nations,with the methodology of comparing pre-colonialism with the colonial state of affairs,focused on attitudes and practices regarding …
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Home and national belonging : narratives of Zimbabwean middle class women in Cape Town
… is an analysis of narratives collected from Zimbabwean black middle class women residing in the South Africa’s coastal city of Cape Town. The narratives construct and locate participants in the main South Africa xenophobia immigration discourse. The research attempts to answer the question: …
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Diversity of vaginal microbiota associated with bacterial vaginosis and the impact on pregnancy outcomes in HIV-infected and uninfected women.
… as bacterial vaginosis (BV). BV is prevalent in women of African descent and may be a cause of higher rates of adverse birth outcomes in these women. Adverse birth outcomes have been reported to be higher in HIV-infected women both on treatment or treatment naïve compared to HIV-uninfected women. …
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The feminisation of poverty and victimhood in Dangarembga's print oeuvre: Cyclical evocations of nervous conditions, survival, and agency
… increased concentration of income poverty among women in America (Peterson, 1987). This term was applied in the analysis of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s oeuvre, mainly focusing on the victimhood, cyclical evocations of nervous conditions, survival strategies and agency that Zimbabwean women experienced …
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Awareness of cervical cancer risk factors and symptoms and lay beliefs amongst women recently diagnosed with cervical cancer in South Africa and Zimbabwe
… and risk factors as well as lay beliefs amongst women recently diagnosed with cervical cancer from SA and Zimbabwe. Methods: This is a secondary analysis of data from a descriptive cross-sectional study of women recently diagnosed with cervical cancer in SA and Zimbabwe. Between September 2022 …
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Role of antiretroviral therapy exposure host genetics on cytomegalovirus infection status and association with gut microbiome profiles among pregnant black African women
… are known but, factors predisposing pregnant women to CMV are not well studied. CMV has a wide host cell tropism that includes gut epithelial cells. CMV infection in the gut epithelial cells results in a leaky gut and potential gut microbial dysbiosis. In this study, we set out to determine …