Being an 'adolescent': The consequences of gendered risks for young people in rural Uganda.
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DominicBukenya;
ClaireThompson;
FatumaSsembajja;
Janet Seeley ;
(2017)
Being an 'adolescent': The consequences of gendered risks for young people in rural Uganda.
Childhood (Copenhagen, Denmark), 25 (1).
pp. 19-33.
ISSN 0907-5682
DOI: 10.1177/0907568217732119
The behaviour of adolescents is recognised increasingly as having substantial and long-term consequences for their health. We examined the meaning of 'adolescence' in southern Uganda with HIV-positive young people aged 11-24 years. Adolescent girls and boys are described differently in the local language (Luganda). Adolescence is described as a behavioural rather than a life course category and an inherently dangerous one. The practices, risks and consequences of 'adolescent' behaviour are highly gendered. Local understandings of adolescence are likely to have a significant impact on the efficacy of interventions designed to minimise their 'risky behaviour'.
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