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Original Source: Superstition, witchcraft and HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Ghana.
Belief in superstition and witchcraft is central to many African conceptions of illness, disease causation and etiology. While a number of anthropological studies have alluded to a theoretical link between such beliefs and HIV prevention in particular, there is limited empirical assessment of the association. Using data from the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey and applying random-effects logit models, we investigate whether the belief that AIDS can spread through witchcraft associates with the sexu...
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Superstition, witchcraft and HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Ghana.
Belief in superstition and witchcraft is central to many African conceptions of illness, disease causation and etiology. While a number of anthropological studies have alluded to a theoretical link be...
Chol Understandings of Suicide and Human Agency.
According to ethnographic material collected since 2003, the Chol Mayan indigenous people in southern Mexico have different causal explanations for suicide. It can be attributed to witchcraft that for...
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AIDS Conspiracy Beliefs and Unsafe Sex in Cape Town.
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