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    Development of a Communication Strategy to Reduce Violence against Children in South Africa: A Social-Ecological Approach
    (2017-12-23) Edberg, Mark; Shaikh, Hina; Rimal, Rajiv N.; Rassool, Rayana; Mthembu, Mpumelelo
    Research on violence against children, though extensive, has not been effectively deployed for the development and tailoring of communication efforts aimed at specific national, local and cultural contexts within which such violence occurs. This article presents a staged, multi-sectoral communication strategy to reduce the incidence of violence against children in South Africa. Drawing on formative data collected through a literature review, key informant interviews, focus groups, and a stakeholder review meeting, the research team, in collaboration with UNICEF South Africa, formulated a communication strategy aimed at combatting violence against children. The data analysis and strategy development within a socialecological framework sought to identify factors at multiple levels that contribute to violence against children in the South African context. The communication strategy is designed to achieve positive social and behaviour change outcomes in South Africa with respect to the treatment of children, and also to provide an approach as well as specific elements that are potentially replicable to some extent in other countries.
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    Multiple concurrent partnerships and sexual dissatisfaction - an exploratory study among black women in South Africa.
    (2011-03-31) Rassool, Rayana
    This research report focuses on the linkages between multiple concurrent partnerships and sexual dissatisfaction in a sample of black women. Multiple Concurrent Partnerships has been identified as a key driver of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa and it has been posited that one of the factors contributing to MCP is women’s sexual dissatisfaction; the focus of this research. The research was firmly entrenched in a social constructionist paradigm strongly rejecting a biomedical approach to understanding sexuality. The research was located in a qualitative framework. Data was collected though focus groups and in depth interviews with young women aged 18 – 35 in an urban township in Johannesburg. A sexually satisfying relationship is an important component of women’s lives. Where main partners did not provide sexual satisfaction, many women sought pleasure elsewhere. However sexual dissatisfaction is also interwoven with other complex social issues such as gender based violence, transactional sex and poverty. This study calls for greater attention to be paid to the ways in which women want to maximise their sexual enjoyment and minimise sexual harm.