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A Shock to the System: HIV among Older African Women in Zimbabwe
2018
HIV remains a threat to the ordinary everyday life of older woman in African society. In what can be called “a reality shock,” HIV challenges most of the ordinary everyday endeavors in conservative African societies as it imposes new Western prevention, treatment, and health-management methods over long-held African traditions. The reality of the “Western” HIV epidemic, and its impact on the “African” ordinary everyday life, demands that the infected undergo a paradigm shift in order for them to live harmoniously within their society. This calls for a re-examination of traditional values and a strong sense of responsibility, courage, and determination to remain relevant and not be considere…
Gene Regulation and Species-Specific Evolution of Free Flight Odor Tracking in Drosophila
2018
Running title: flight evolution in Drosophila This is an invited contribution to the special issue on Genetics of Adaptation based on a symposium of the same name at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (TIFR, Bangalore, India) in November 2016; International audience; The flying ability of insects has coevolved with the development of organs necessary to take-off from the ground, generate, and modulate lift during flight in complex environments. Flight orientation to the appropriate food source and mating partner depends on the perception and integration of multiple chemical signals. We used a wind tunnel-based assay to investigate the natural and molecular evolution of free flight …
Koleraepidemia Zimbabwessa : diskurssianalyysi The Heraldin ja Helsingin Sanomien uutisoinnista
2012
Tässä pro gradu -tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan zimbabwelaisen valtio-omisteisen sanomalehden The Heraldin ja Helsingin Sanomien uutisointia Zimbabwen koleraepidemiasta vuosina 2008-2009. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena on selvittää millaisin diskurssein eli äänenpainoin lehdet kertovat Zimbabwen tapahtumista. Kehitysmaajournalismia on tutkittu viime vuosina monesta näkökulmasta, mutta tutkimusta, jossa olisi vertailtu kehitysmaan ja länsimedian uutisointia, ei juurikaan ole tehty. Koska valtiolliset lehdet ovat tiukasti maiden hallitusten kontrollissa, on syytä kysyä millaisen kuvan ne antavat maansa tapahtumista. Saivatko zimbabwelaiset maassaan riehuvasta koleraepidemiasta erilaisen kuvan valtiolli…
The Design and Impacts of Individual Sanctions: Evidence From Elites in Côte d’Ivoire and Zimbabwe
2022
Since the 1990s, sanctions senders like the European Union, the United States, and the United Nations have been imposing visa bans and asset freezes on individuals as a key element of their sanctions packages. Notwithstanding the growing centrality that individual sanctions have acquired in international sanctions practice, little is known about the impact of sanctions listings on designees. Some researchers have scrutinised targeting choices, while others have explored the effects of sanctions on designees. However, no study has yet examined the fit between targeting choices and impacts on designees. First, we interrogate the theory of targeted sanctions to identify the expectations that i…
Translating culture: Charles Mungoshi's Waiting for the Rain
2008
In Waiting for the Rain Charles Mungoshi chose a western form, the novel, and a western language, English, to try and convey the deep changes at work in Zimbabwean society at the time. This paper focuses on both aspects: first, the adaptation of the novelistic genre to Zimbabwean culture, and second, the defamiliarization of the English language, which is not Mungoshi's mother tongue. What is questioned is whether the incorporation of essentially oral elements, belonging to and borrowed from a specific culture and language, which are initially peripheral and foreign to the dominant "English" culture, can transform both Zimbabwean culture and English culture – in other words, Waiting for the…
Notes on Afrotropical Cydnidae (Heteroptera) with emphasis on vehicle-mounted net samples and description of a new species from Liberia, West Africa
2019
Notes on the Cydnidae fauna in Liberia, sampled with a vehicle-mounted net, the species taxonomy and general distribution are reported, including the description of Chilocoris elongatus sp. nov. In addition, new country records are provided for Angola, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guine a-Bissau, Namibia, Niger, Republic of South Africa, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
First country records for two species of the Afrotropical genus Coridiellus J.A. Lis, 1990 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dinidoridae)
2018
First country records are provided for two species of the Afrotropical genus Coridiellus J.A. Lis, 1990, i.e. C. bechynei (Villiers, 1956) [Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zimbabwe] and C. lenoiri (Schouteden, 1909) [Zambia]. Their parameres are illustrated for the first time.
From Land Reform to Hyperinflation: The Zimbabwean Experience of 1997-2008
2018
This article has for objective to contribute to the understanding of the Zimbabwean hyperinflation. The agrarian reform announced in November, 1997 is at the origin of this hyperinflation. This led to a massive outflow of capital and a disruption in the production that cause over several years the degradation of the foreign accounts, and a trend depreciation of the Zimbabwean dollar. The depreciation, via the increase of the costs in the import, cause the strong increase in prices. The long-lasting increase in prices have, subsequently, lead practice of price indexation on the foreign exchange rate. These phenomena of indexation not only fed the inflationary process, but also led to the col…
Female genital schistosomiasis--a differential diagnosis to sexually transmitted disease: genital itch and vaginal discharge as indicators of genital…
2008
OBJECTIVE To examine the association between schistosomiasis and reproductive tract symptoms. METHOD A cross-sectional study was conducted in a Schistosoma haematobium-endemic area of rural Zimbabwe. A total of 483 permanently resident adult women of Mupfure Ward aged 20-49 were interviewed and examined clinically, each providing three consecutive urine samples. Logistic regression analysis was used to control for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). RESULTS Women with genital sandy patches had significantly more genital itch (P = 0.009) and perceived their discharge as abnormal (P = 0.003). Eighty percent of the women who had genital itch, yellow discharge, and childhood or current waterb…
The first community-based report on the effect of genital Schistosoma haematobium infection on female fertility.
2009
A cross-sectional study in an Schistosoma haematobium endemic area of rural Zimbabwe examined 483 resident women between the ages of 20 and 49 years who were interviewed about fertility. S. haematobium ova in genital tissue was found to be significantly associated with infertility.