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How can integration of the alcohol perspective strengthen existing HIV/AIDS strategies?. Dag Endal FORUT Norwegian Campaign for Development and Solidarity ADD Project Coordinator (Alcohol, Drugs and Development). A shift in approach:. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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How can integration of the alcohol perspective
strengthen existing HIV/AIDS
strategies?Dag Endal
FORUT Norwegian Campaign for Development and Solidarity
ADD Project Coordinator(Alcohol, Drugs and Development)
A shift in approach:
Alcohol problems as only a backdrop when designing HIV/AIDS interventions
A shift in approach:
Alcohol problems as only a backdrop when designing HIV/AIDS interventions
To see alcohol consumption as an integral part of the HIV/AIDS problem – and then address also this factor in intervetions
Three categories of possible links between alcohol and HIV/AIDS:> Alcohol use increasing the risk
for HIV infection
> Alcohol boosting the development of the disease, once you are infected
> Alcohol reducing the effects of (medical) treatment
Basic 1:The level of alcohol
consumption and the drinking habits in a population are not
constant. They change over time
and between nations and groups
Basic 2:The level of alcohol
problems can be regulated through interventions by
governments and by society as a whole
Assumption:Reduction of alcohol consumption and change of drinking patterns can contribute to * reduction in HIV incidence rates* slower development from HIV to AIDS for the infected* increased effectivity of ARV
treatment
Alcohol policy advocacy as part of HIV/AIDS
prevention strategies?
Recorded consumption 2003
1,44 litres pure alcohol
per person aged 15+
WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol
2004
Distribution of consumption:
Beer 78,0%Wine 0,5%Spirits 21,5%
Carlsberg samlebåndRecorded alcohol
Unrecorded
alcohol
Total alcohol consumptionWHO Region Africa E:(litres per person aged 15+)
Recorded 3,8 (54%)Unrecorded 3,3 (46%)
Risk
group
Risk places
EMERGING MARKETS!
Challenges in AIDS prevention: * Keep general alcohol consumption low;* Maintain Malawian women as a group of non-drinkers;* Stimulate male non-drinkers to maintain their position;* Target men who have risky drinking patterns;* Target drinking places
Add the alcohol perspective to
existing HIV/AIDS strategies, not replace these
strategies
Gender dimensions and drinking habits• More men drink than women• Men drink more often than women• Men drink larger quantities than women• It is more accepted that men drink than women• Men create more problems when drunk
A universal picture…with a few exceptions and local variations
The story of Chimwemwe:Chimwemwe says that her husband is a very jealous man, and he drinks alcohol every day. When he drinks he almost always beats her; 'A week cannot pass without beating me'.
He spends much of the family's income on alcohol, money Chimwemwe feels could be used on much more useful things. Every night Moses comes home drunk, and he urinates and vomits in the bed, and when she tells him to go outside he beats her.
She does not like to sleep with her husband when he is drunk, because he stinks, he behaves badly, and she is afraid that he has been cheating on her with other women who may be HIV positive. If she refuses to have sex with him, he forces her.
THE KEY to understanding the
problem and taking efficient action
1. Construction of masculinity2. The symbolic, social
meaning of drinking3. Privileges attached to
drinking
Construction of masculinity
Drinking and drunken behaviour
= masculinity
”Being able to hold one’s drink
and to drink heavily is a sign of masculinity”
Address privileges attached to drinking:• Permission to break rules and
social conventions;• Excuse for rude and violent
behaviour;• Acceptance by other people to
behave badly;• Explanation or excuse for bad
performance.
Myth-busting:
A critical loook at existing conventional wisdom on the effects of alcohol
(strength, attractiveness, virility, intelligence etc)
Communicate basic facts on the real effects of alcohol
Gender transformative programs for HIV/AIDS prevention:
Address also drinking habits as an integral part of the masculine identity
This problem has to be adressed* by men;* by working with men;* by working for men.