Question 1
According to Susser, the internationally gender conservative moral agenda promotion has in fact emerged partly from PEPFAR actual regulations as outlined earlier. For the poor nations receiving PEPFAR there are various more implications than immediate moral imperatives concerning the sexual abstinence (Susser 1977). With wall destruction between state and church, Susser argues that relaxing rules against the funding of the religious practices and failing a multipronged prevention approach has made new AIDS funding by President Bush to precipitate an increase in the faith based funding abroad. In the African context, the category of people who benefited from this approach advance is the people living with the HIV and AIDS epidemic.
Question 2
Susser argues that the apartheid system structured both the racial and gendered divisions. This system essentially led to the development of everyday sexual harassment and humiliation and this actually led to the development of a stage where HIV/AIDS developed in South Africa. He therefore argues that this system of governance led to the development of these harassments and because of this, the development of HIV/AIDS scourge was rampant throughout the South African nation (Susser 1988). The migrant labor system in this policy disrupts families according to Susser hence this led to the development of HIV/AIDS scourge. In addition to disrupting families, the policy also led to poverty development and this in fact led to development of this scourge.
Question 3
According to Mkhize, the difference in pain between the affected and infected people by HIV/AIDS is that the affected person feels more pain than the one who is suffering or is infected by this epidemic. This is totally true because after reading the other chapters one gets well informed about the health effects that a person affected by this scourge goes through which in real sense are more severe than those suffered by a person that is only suffering or infected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic(Susser 1194) . Women are disproportionately affected by this menace. This is because the sexual activity takes place inside the body of a woman and this increases the likelihood of a woman to be affected. In addition, according to women biological make up, their bodies are more prone to be affected.
Question 4
According to Susser, hope workers and bead workers have varying approaches to their political action among those women who essentially sought treatment in mission hospital located in Durban. Those women who were rural based appeared to be more isolated from or seemed to listen to the news concerning them (Susser 8). These women involved themselves in projects that generated only small incomes. Women are actually restricted from inheriting community lands while they are the one who work on these lands.
In addition, their control and decision making powers over product is in fact curtailed. This lead to the establishment of treatment Act campaign whose commitment was to bring universal access to the two groups’ treatment in South Africa. The women from urban settlements are called hope workers and those from rural settlements are called bead workers. Bead workers appeared to possess a greater and more desperate money need and were less educated than hope workers were.
Question 5
Susser points out some factors, in explaining the difference between Ju Hoansi women experiences in negotiating sexual encounters with those of their counterparts. These women when they were children are reared with a high autonomy level hence their sexual negotiation experiences are different from those of the other women (Susser 1999). Therefore, these women differ in their sense of autonomy from that of others as shown by different living standards of these women.
Works cited
Susser, Ida. Aids, Sex, and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa. Chichester, West Sussex, U.K: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
