Wanita, Ketidaksarnaan Sosial dan Risiko Jangkitan AIDS
Abstract
AIDS which is originally identified as a disease affecting primarily gay men has taken on new dimensions. Throughout the world, AIDS is becoming an increasingly women's affair whereby the rate of transmission is increasingly faster among women than among men. Drawing on information obtained from semi-structured interviews with 30 HIV infected women, this article tries to answer two questions:(I) how personal relationship between gender can cause women to get infected with AIDS and (2) why some women involve themselves in high risk activities related to AIDS transmission. The data obtained showed that women had gotten infected with AIDS because of their social, economic and political subordination to men. AIDS transmissions are also directly influenced by culturally defined and socially shaped womens' roles and definitions of sexuality Lack of income, wealth and power make women unable to protect themelves from AIDS
Key words: Social inequalities, subordinate, personal relationship, sexuality, rape and prostitute
ABSTRAK
AIDS yang pada asalnya dikaitkan dengan lelaki gay sahaja telah mengambil dimensi baru. Di seluruh dunia, AIDS telah menjadi masalah wanita dengan kadar jangkitan di kalangan mereka meningkat lebih cepat daripada lelaki. Dengan menggunakan maklumat yang diperolehi hasil temubual separuh berstruktur dengan 30 orang wanita yang dijangkiti HIV, makalah ini mengupas dua soalan iaitu, ( 1 ) bagaimana hubungan personal di antara gender menyebabkan wanita dijangkiti AIDS dan (2) kenapa sesetengah wanita melibatkan diri dalam aktiviti-aktiviti berisiko tinggi dari segi jangkitan AIDS. Data daripada kajian ini menunjukkan bahawa wanita dijangkiti AIDS kerana status mereka yang subordinat kepada lelaki dari segi sosial, ekonomi dan politik. Jangkitan AIDS di kalangan wanita juga dipengaruhi secara langsung oleh definisi budaya dun dibentuk secara sosial oleh peranan mereka dan definisi tentang seksualiti. Kekurangan pendapatan, kuasa dan kekayaan telah menyebabkan wanita tidak berupaya untuk menghindari diri mereka daripada AIDS.
Kata kunci: Ketidaksamaan sosial, subordinat, hubungan personal, seksualiti, pekerja seks dan rogol
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