Trends in condom use among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India: the impact of a community mobilisation intervention

Background Community mobilisation interventions for HIV prevention among female sex workers (FSWs) aim to organise FSWs for collective action and challenge the structures of power that underlie HIV risk. Assessing intervention impact is challenging because the importance of direct individual exposure to intervention components may decrease over time as change occurs at social-normative, policy and other structural levels. In this paper, the authors examine changes over time in consistent condom use among FSWs in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, the location of a long-standing community mobilisation intervention. Methods The authors analyse cross-sectional data collected among FSWs at three time points (n=2276) using respondent-driven sampling. Multiple logistic regression was used to assess the association of programme exposure with consistent condom use and whether this association varied over time. Results The proportion of FSWs having no exposure or only receptive exposure to the intervention decreased over time, while active utilisation increased from 19.4% in 2006 to 48.5% in 2009–2010. Consistent condom use with clients also increased from 56.3% in 2006 to 75.3% in 2009–2010. Multivariate analysis showed that age, age at start of sex work, venue, living conditions and programme exposure were significantly associated with condom use. The positive association between programme exposure and consistent condom use did not vary significantly over time. Conclusions Findings indicate improvements in HIV risk reduction behaviour among FSWs and suggest that the intervention has substantial reach in the FSW population. The intervention\u27s strategies may be contributing to population-level HIV risk reduction among FSWs

Applied utility and the auto-ethnographic short story: persuasions for, and illustrations of, writing critical social science

In some quarters it is argued that, narrative researchers might be classified as being either storyanalysts or storytellers. They go on to suggest that one feature of storytellers is that they undertake a form of analysis as the process of writing unfolds. With these sentiments in mind, in the present paper, we consider how auto-ethnographical accounts of traumatic and challenging life events might, through the analysis contained within, demonstrate value within the realm of applied pedagogy. In making our case we embrace and adapt the literary genre of storytelling, more specifically, the short story. The story presented here, ‘Travel Writer’, offers an opaque, multicontextualised and lifelong view of career transition. The present paper, in more general terms, considers the capacity of auto-ethnography and, more specifically, the short storied version of it, to engender critical reader engagement, to encourage personal reflection in others, and to act as a point of stimulus for the enactment of applied debate through the lens of critical social science. With regards to the assumptions of critical social science, the final discussion also considers how the auto-ethnographic text, as a pedagogic tool, might help others to contest and challenge the meta-narratives that, we argue, risk stagnating established thinking

Janet Burroway, 10th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Janet Burroway studied at Barnard College and Cambridge University, where she was a Marshall Scholar. She has been an NBC Special Fellow in Playwriting at Yale School of Drama, designed costumes for the Belgian National Theater, taught at the University of Sussex, and written plays for British television. She has also published six novels, including Raw Silk and The Buzzards, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the widely acclaimed textbook, Writing Fiction. Ms. Burroway is professor of English Literature and codirector of the Writing Program at Florida State University

Janet Burroway, 12th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Janet Burroway is the author of six novels, two of poetry, two children\u27s books, a guide to fiction-writing, and five plays. Her novels include Descend Again, 1960; The Dancer from the Dance, 1965; Eyes, 1966; The Buzzards, 1970; Raw Silk, 1977; and Opening Nights, 1985. Her collections of poetry are But to the Season, 1961, and Material Goods, 1980. The Truck on the Track, 1970, and The Giant Jam Sandwich, 1972, are children\u27s books. Her Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, 1982, is probably the most widely-used fiction-writing textbook in America. Her plays include Garden Party, 1955; The Fantasy Level, 1961; The Beauty Operators, 1968; Hoddinott Veiling, 1970; and Due Care and Attention, 1973. She previously read her fiction at the Old Dominion Literary Festival in 1987. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Associated Writing Programs. Burroway teaches at Florida State University

Political Economy, Capability Development, and Fundamental Cause: Integrating Perspectives on Child Health in Developing Countries

Several dominant theoretical perspectives attempt to account for health disparities in developing countries, including political economy, the capability approach, and fundamental cause. This study combines the perspectives in a multi-level analysis of child malnutrition and diarrhea in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of who faces increased health risks and who is shielded from them. Using the Demographic and Health Surveys and World Bank data, I estimate a series of models that predict the likelihood of child malnutrition and diarrhea, based on a set of country- and individual-level explanatory variables. Results suggest that at the individual-level, household wealth and maternal education are the most robust predictors of child health. These social factors are even more important than more proximate factors like clean water or sanitation. At the country-level, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita reduces malnutrition, but does not significantly affect incidence of diarrhea. Contrary to the predominant economic development paradigm, health care and education are more important in accounting for the prevalence of diarrhea than GDP. Finally, trade in and of itself is not harmful to well-being in developing countries. It is when countries become too dependent on one or a few commodities that trade starts to have detrimental costs. Thus, a synthesis of theoretical frameworks best illustrates the complex web of social structural factors that manifest as unequal life chances for children

23: The Appalachian Foothills People, Place, And, The Opioid Epidemic

23: the Appalachian Foothills People, Place, and, the Opioid Epidemic is a collection of personal and narrative nonfiction essays centered in the Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia Appalachian foothills region and focused on the impact of the opioid epidemic on this place and the people who live here. From the story of a boy born in 1989 to a woman who injected Oxycontin into her jugular vein, to communities seeking to overcome more than three decades of trauma wrought by addiction, this collection seeks to provide an indigenous perspective of a blue-collar community surviving the opioid epidemic, loss, and, hope for tomorrow. 23 provides context of place and how it contributed to the opioid impact, and, how place lends structure to solutions. 23 also represents the genetic structure that joins us as humans, yet, sets us apart as individuals surviving the impact of addiction on ourselves, on our loved ones, and on our beloved homeplace in the Appalachian foothills

Embalming Mom Essays in Life

Janet Burroway followed in the footsteps of Sylvia Plath. Like Plath, she was an early Mademoiselle guest editor in New York, an Ivy League and Cambridge student, an aspiring poet-playwright-novelist in the period before feminism existed, a woman who struggled with her generation's conflicting demands of work and love. Unlike Plath, Janet Burroway survived.Intro -- I Didn't Know Sylvia Plath -- Danger and Domesticity in the Deep South -- Embalming Mom -- Footprints -- Eleventh Hour -- Dad Scattered -- Changes -- Trash Talk -- My One True West -- Freeze Frame -- Pool -- PC and PC -- We Eat the Earth -- Of the Beholder -- Soldier Son -- Bonnes Anniversaires -- AcknowledgmentsJanet Burroway followed in the footsteps of Sylvia Plath. Like Plath, she was an early Mademoiselle guest editor in New York, an Ivy League and Cambridge student, an aspiring poet-playwright-novelist in the period before feminism existed, a woman who struggled with her generation's conflicting demands of work and love. Unlike Plath, Janet Burroway survived.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries