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This article examines the relationship among bullying, individual’s identity, and school performance in Chile. The results indicate that being a bully or a bully-victim increases the probability of being a low performing student. For the case of victims, our results suggest a heterogeneity according students’ ability, decreasing academic achievement for students with below average ability, but increasing it for very high achieving students. We also found that students claiming to belong to a subculture characterized by a defiant attitude towards authority have lower academic achievement. …
Maisha+ focuses on sharing experiences and lessons in reaching out to the hard-to-reach community populations in Sub Saharan African with HIV and AIDS interventions. In this issue: -Towards zero HIV infections, discrimination and AIDS deaths for hard to reach communities -Violence against women contributing to spread of HIV -Supporting Associations of people living with HIV in Uganda -Challenges in addressing traditional beliefs and practices in HIV and AIDS among the Maasai -Working with sexual minorities in Rwanda -Stop the discrimination! -testimony from a victim of assault
Una publicación elaborada en el marco del proyecto "Factores culturales para la prevención del VIH en mujeres indígenas del Ecuador" es una aproximación al enfoque intercultural en las políticas públicas referidas a VIH y pueblos indígenas en Ecuador. Se hace un análisis de la incorporación del enfoque intercultural en las políticas públicas de prevención del VIH. …
Estudio sobre la situación general de las ITS y VIH/sida en pueblos originarios de América Latina. La primera parte del análisis incluye una evaluación doble: por una parte, la constatación de la gravedad de la presencia de estas enfermedades específicas en los pueblos indígenas, a partir de muestras concretas y, por otra parte, las maneras de solucionar el problema que ya los mismos pueblos y sus agentes de ayuda están aplicando. …
The Tonga of Southern Zambia usually refer to a traditional disease, Kahungo, when talking about AIDS. Such an association of AIDS with a traditional disease could easily be interpreted as a cultural obstacle to an understanding of AIDS and thus to a change of behaviour. However, a close investigation shows that this association is not the result of categorical thinking, but rather of narrative logic. What people are actually articulating when they associate AIDS with kahungo is a narrative about order, disorder and respect for existing rules and values of the society. …
