Youth, Photovoice

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Youth, Photovoice HIV/AIDS

• GAAP Team June Larkin (Principal
  Investigator)Claudia Mitchell (Co-investigator)M
  ichelle DagninoSarah FlickerRuth
  Koleszar-GreenSusan MintzJean Paul Restoule
• Shannon Walsh
• www.utgaap.info

The Institute for Women's Studies and Gender
Studies, University of Toronto
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• Young people between fifteen to twenty-four year
  olds account for over half of all new HIV
  infections (UNAIDS, 2004).
• South Africa has the largest number of people
  living with HIV (5.3 million) and an overall
  prevalence rate of 21.5 (UNAIDS, 2004).

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• Canada has a prevalence rate of about 0.3.
• However, a recent surge in youth STI rates is a
  sign of the potential for the spread of AIDS in
  Canadian youth (Health Canada, 2003).

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• Pedagogical failures in addressing youth and
  AIDS can be terminal.

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• Photovoice as a method puts cameras into the
  hands of people in order to address issues from
  their visual point-of-view.
• Photography offers participants new ways to see
  their own world and offers researchers new
  insights and perspectives

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• Photovoice is a well-established approach to
  accessing the voices of groups who are often
  marginalized.
• Photovoice can be situated within a research
  for social change framework.

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• if I lived in South AfricaI would most likely
  be poor and I would most likely not have an
  education. So I'd be ignorant to the riskof
  contracting AIDS if I have sex. So I won't have
  a problem in having sex, and that's something
  that I won't think about
• it's totally different there than it is here
  when you have people that live in huts and don't
  have radios and listen to the latest science
  report.

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• every time you see an African personon TV
  it's alwaysabout how they have AIDS and stuff
  like that and we need to support them. Sothey
  seem to be saying that all Africans have AIDS...

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Let me be

• African women are amongst the most affected in
  the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Unfortunately their
  resilience and resourcefulness is not appreciated
  enough. This picture tries to demonstrate the
  anger that we feel.

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QUESTIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS

• 1) What ethical issues have to be considered in
  using photographs in which participants are
  clearly identifiable?
• 2) What tools of analysis can be developed for
  engaging in close readings of visual analysis?
• 3) How do we assess the effectiveness of
  arts-based education initiatives?

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