Being an 'adolescent': The consequences of gendered risks for young people in rural Uganda

Sarah Bernays; Dominic Bukenya; Claire Thompson; Fatuma Ssembajja; Janet Seeley

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Being an 'adolescent': The consequences of gendered risks for young people in rural Uganda

Sarah Bernays, Dominic Bukenya, Claire Thompson, Fatuma Ssembajja, Janet Seeley

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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'.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	19-33
Number of pages	15
Journal	Childhood (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Volume	25
Issue number	1
Early online date	25 Sept 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0907568217732119
Publication status	Published - Feb 2018

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