Introduction to African Women

HSV-2 incidence was >10% per year, emphasizing the need for development of novel HSV-2 prevention strategies for African women.

Data were collected from one randomly selected woman per household using the African Women Awareness of CANcer breast and cervical cancer tool.

Assessing the knowledge and uptake level of African women through studies like this is crucial in identifying the loopholes in the fight against cancer.

A qualitative approach was adopted using online open-ended questions to seek narratives from African women leaders on their roles and experiences of a STEM career.

Knowing Women is a must-read for scholars of African sexuality, social scientists, researchers, cultural studies scholars, sexuality and gender policy formulators and implementers and all those who have a stake in advancing and protecting the identities of African women.

Although these important efforts have not resulted in a major decrease in violence against women, they clearly demonstrate the long history of African women’s actions in resisting state power and patriarchy.

Reducing the gender gap in Mathematics in Africa, is the major aim of African Women in Mathematics Association (AWMA) through various activities.

The paper shows that Italy’s adoption of partial exclusion or subordinated model of integration, the weak position of the African migrants in Italy’s employment sector, lack of employment opportunities for African women and the second generation, blocked mobility, lack of access to housing due to racial discrimination and hostile attitudes of the Northern League party are the main forces behind the onward migration.

The author of the article indicates the reasons for the considerable increase in the representation of women in legislative and executive bodies in several countries of the continent, as well as the obstacles that impede social and political activity of African women.

The analysis reveals that, with the practs of ordering, Sir Peters compares the attitudes of African men to African women and advocates women empowerment, predicating his advocacy on the fact that women are beautiful and intelligent.

African women with normal cytology have been reported to have the highest prevalence of HPV and also higher tendency of developing invasive cervical cancer due to certain sociocultural and economic factors.

DISCUSSION When X-chromosomal and autosomal differentiation values were compared, a sex-biased admixture between European men and Native American and African women was revealed, as well as between African men and Native American women.

Notwithstanding, most Euro-American and other global frameworks against women victimization tend to accord the contributions of African women in P/CVE an epiphenomenal consideration.

Hence, this systematic review and meta-analysis was planned to generate summarized evidence on the association between maternal serum Zn levels and pre-eclampsia in African women.

In a trial measuring HIV incidence in African women, oral PrEP was incorporated into the standard of prevention in the trial's last year.

In this volume, African women theologians and their female-identifying colleagues, struggle with reading and interpreting religious texts in the context of environmental crisis that are threatening life on Earth.

While South Africa has introduced several policies to address the low enrolment and graduation of women in STEM, African women continue to be under-represented in these disciplines.

Witchcraft and barrenness are two critical issues that African women have had to grapple with since precolonial times.

I explore this initiative through the lenses of African Women’s Theology (AWT) and Oikos Theology and suggest that urban community food gardens represent a cooperation with nature and a resistance to social structures and systems that perpetuate marginalization, inequality, and subjugation of women.

Conclusion: The low prevalence of dense breast pattern in this study is consistent with previous findings of relatively lower prevalence of breast cancer in African women.

Serena Dankwa’s Knowing Women, a fascinating exploration of African women’s same-sex intimacies in Ghana, starts off by reminding us to ‘“free our imaginations” in order to “make new exciting things”’.

African women are considered exemplary cases where women have low access to finance and economic opportunities to progress in the natural resource industry.

The theme of motherhood and childbearing is not new in African women’s literature.

Conclusion: African women with a history of HFDP have an increased risk of cardiometabolic conditions within 6 years post-partum in an urban sub-Saharan African setting.

Five themes were generated, revealing gender specific experiences of these African women immigrants during their career journey.

Background: Preeclampsia and eclampsia, are the frequent and global obstetrics and gynaecology emergencies in the care of gravid women particularly in African women.

So, how do African women consent to research when culturally they must surrender their autonomy? We join in solidarity and create our own collective autonomy.

This paper helps to fill in the gap by examining the issues that affect the ability of African women to utilize digital technology for better agricultural productivity and how these are influenced by regional and multilateral intellectual property (IP) regulations.

The role of African women writers in employing the unique style of presenting several generations of women characters in the same historical novel to narrate how the world of women has been transformed across time cannot be naysaid.

The United Nations (UN) conferences have made a significant impact on the development agendas and related projects and programmes on gender equality designed to support women – including African women – starting with Mexico 1975, Copenhagen 1980, Nairobi 1985 and the fourth world conference in Beijing in 1995 with its Platform for Action (BPfA).

To assess risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE) in African women in order to guide thromboprophylaxis.

Participants Women who participated in the African Women Awareness of CANcer cross-sectional survey who disclosed potential breast and cervical cancer symptoms were eligible; recruitment was purposive.

Here, we provide insight on how the high levels of estrogen in African women might contribute to the lower cases and fatalities in Africa.

African women and girls represent a majority of those infected, and Africa is home to three-fourths of all HIV-infected women and girls.

This chapter identifies the dichotomy in-country experiences by African immigrant women to South Africa and therefore attempts to examine the African women migration trend into South Africa.

However, little is known about African women’s experiences with vaginal pessary use.

Concurrent HPV/HIV infection is catastrophic, particularly to African women due to the high prevalence of HIV infections.

The crucial question which comes to mind in this study's investigation is whether the circular shapes of the products by the women has any leasing or influence from the round features found on ideal, African women.

Through these women’s voices and lives, Dankwa delivers a rich, excitingly messy, perfectly wayward and full life of African women’s genius.

A qualitative approach was adopted using online open-ended questions to seek narratives from African women leaders on their roles and experiences of a STEM career.

Though the question of linguistic discordance in African literature is not new, it still generates ripples, and currently attracts tremendous interest of the present crop of African women writers who produce texts that conflate both indigenous and exogenous languages to possibly strengthen the conviction that one language is no longer the sole organiser of worldview.

However, clinical studies have reported conflicting evidence on the effect of serum Vitamin D levels on serum Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), with little evidence in African women.

INTRODUCTION We present a case series of ten, atopic, African women who developed irritant contact dermatitis after the addition of synthetic hair extensions.

To arrive at this conclusion, the central aim was to elucidate whether the gender-performative representations prioritised in the multimodal discourses of Afrobeats music videos are implicated in post-feminist sensibilities and if so, in what ways and to what effect? Given the continent’s richly diverse, yet largely heteropatriarchal, sociocultural formations, I argue that ideas about empowered, agentic and self-determining (black) African women are–based on the limited purview offered through the multimodal discourses of a small corpus of Afrobeats music videos–no more than sociocultural façades as opposed to gender-relational realities in our context.

The population-attributable risk of male gender on spontaneous preterm birth is lower in African women (3.

African women’s theology has a commitment to the emancipation of women covering the several themes such as ecclesiology, hospitality, community, spirituality, sacrifice, ecology and missiology.

This article explores Palmer’s approaches to African women’s writing in the volume, focusing on his presentation of So Long a Letter by the Senegalese author Mariama Bâ and relating his criticism of Bâ’s narrative to other interpretations of her work.

There is limited research on Arab, Muslim and African women’s experiences of advanced breast cancer.

Background Access to modern family planning methods is essential for African women to avoid repeated pregnancies, and the subsequent risk of maternal mortality, particularly in rural contexts.

Drawing on research with African retail traders, university students, and corporate executives in China, I show that the bridge theory illuminates how African women and men rationalize their decisions to migrate to China within the context of the rise of Asia.

Upon completion of the case study discussion and assignments, students will be able to: identify diverse obstacles that African women face in starting social enterprises; understand the ways that African women leaders build a social dimension to their enterprise; and identify characteristics of women’s leadership and critique the value of women’s leadership for establishing sustainable social enterprises.

Some computational techniques have been developed for breast cancer risk assessment in the developed world, but such techniques do not work well in Africa because of the difference in risk profiles of African women e.

The current study aims to identify the educational and health status of African women during different years, and to compare this reality with the status of women at the level of the world and its different regions, and to highlight the spatial variation and geographical reasons for the variation in the educational and health status of women across the regions and countries of the continent.

The variety of themes that this volume addresses and the accessible language in which the chapters are written makes it an excellent course material for undergraduate and graduate classes and an invaluable reference for people interested in grasping an overview of scholarship on African women.

However, the meaning and application of the word ‘feminism’ poses several problems for African women writers and critics many of whom distance themselves from the movement.

African women have a history of entrepreneurship dating back to the pre-colonial era, but in this 21st century, women in Africa are assessed by the World Bank to be at the lower deck of economic breakthrough in comparison to men.

There have been studies of PrEP in many different groups, such as African women, transgender people and sex workers (e.

This paper presents our experience of endometriosis in our care of African women and a review of the literature on endometriosis.

:An important function of the film festival is its capacity to showcase on a local, continental, and international level the works of African women, and to serve as a networking space to professionalize their experiences as stakeholders on the global film festival landscape.

For example, studies find that African women appear more likely to endorse desires for social distancing away from people living with HIV as well as greater anticipated HIV stigma [15].

Introduction: African women who migrate to the USA have a rich tradition of using herbs and spices to promote health.

This text is the result of an ongoing research project that peers out African women in the south of Bahia and unfolds in two parts of their lives in the colonial and imperial period, taking them not only as research objects, but giving them condition of being narrated as protagonists supported in vast and unpublished sources.

Drawing from this, this chapter argues that there can be no real peace if African women are treated as such.

EnglishBrazil and Austral Africa comprise many regionalities and diversities, as well as the treatments given by these societies and cultures to black and African women.

As I draw on the African Womens’ Playwright Network as my example, I consider how we can acknowledge the materiality of the processes and relationships involved in these kinds of networks, which as Stephansen argues, also involve the making of new publics.

Multivariate analysis sustained the results and revealed for the first time a distinct coinfection pattern in African ICCs stemming from the clustering of oncogenic HPV51/35/18/52 coinfections in African women.

In reading these two novels side by side, this article explores the discursive meanings of trafficked bodies and how traumatic existence allows for an engagement with Europe as illusory in the imaginaries of African women who cross borders into Europe.

This article reflects on transnational feminist organising by drawing on the experiences of the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) during the consultations leading up to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.