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Behavioural Change vis-à-vis Hiv/Aids Knowledge Mismatch among Adolescents: The Case of Some Selected Schools in Zomba

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dc.contributor.author Mwale, Marisen
dc.date.accessioned 2022-12-18T13:59:09Z
dc.date.available 2022-12-18T13:59:09Z
dc.date.issued 2008
dc.identifier.citation Mwale, M. (2008). Behavioural Change vis-à-vis Hiv/Aids Knowledge Mismatch among Adolescents: The Case of Some Selected Schools in Zomba. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 17(4), 288–299. http://www.njas.helsinki.fi/pdf-files/vol17num4/mwale.pdf en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://njas.fi/njas/article/view/233/221
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mzuni.ac.mw/handle/123456789/436
dc.description.abstract Most researchers on adolescent reproductive health and related susceptibility to contracting HIV/AIDS have highlighted the ironical mismatch preponderant between adolescent knowledge of HIV/AIDS transmission dynamics and behavioural change exemplified in part by abstinence but also condom use. The paradox is compounded by the fact that survey data seems to depict heightened knowledge of the dynamics per se. Empirical data has previously posited variables as peer pressure and other psychosocial factors as the crisis at adolescence as explaining the anomaly. Results in the current study however unveil the culture of silence; the disdain towards AIDS messages and retrogressive cultural practices as alternative explanation. The results were obtained through survey data from adolescent students in selected schools in Zomba, a district in southern Malawi, and are discussed within the larger context of the applicability of cognitive dissonance theory to the AIDS pandemic. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher NJAS en_US
dc.subject behavioural change en_US
dc.subject cognitive dissonance en_US
dc.subject culture of silence en_US
dc.subject HIV/AIDS en_US
dc.subject risk-reduction en_US
dc.subject susceptibility en_US
dc.title Behavioural Change vis-à-vis Hiv/Aids Knowledge Mismatch among Adolescents: The Case of Some Selected Schools in Zomba en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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