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South African women using beaded crafts to talk about HIV/AIDS.
2004 OCT 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Gender inequalities in rural South Africa have traditionally left women with no voice, but a group of female Zulu doll makers in the KwaZulu-Natal province are now speaking about HIV/AIDS through their craftwork, says the UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN; www.irin.org).
The women are part of the Siyazama Project (siyazama means "we are trying" in Zulu), an initiative that uses the Zulu craft of making beaded dolls as a way to disseminate vital information about HIV/AIDS among rural women.
During their weekly doll-making sessions, the women are taught about the disease by doctors, traditional healers, and HIV positive people. They also receive information on nutrition, home-based care, and treatment.
"Through such a straight-talk approach we want to break the silence surrounding the pandemic," explained Kate Wells, who runs the project. Getting the women to talk about HIV/AIDS and sex-related issues is difficult as they come from deep rural and poverty-stricken areas in the province.
"In the beginning it wasn't easy to get them to listen," admitted Wells. "There was lots of giggling during the sessions, and when the women started to spread the information in their homes some were beaten up by their husbands." One man pulled his wife by her hair across the street after she suggested the use of condoms, said Wells.
For many of these women, participating in the project was their first opportunity to receive information about HIV/AIDS that was not gossip or rumor.
A few months into the project, however, when large numbers of people in rural areas in KwaZulu Natal started dying, the craftswomen began to gain the respect of their communities. "The Siyazama women are not silenced anymore," said Wells.
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