LIFE ORIENTATION GRADE 10

TOPIC: influence of gender inequality on relationships
and general well-being: sexual abuse, teenage
pregnancy, violence, STIs including HIV/AIDS

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Table of contents

INTRODUCTION 2

INFLUENCE OF GENDER IN EQUALITY 3-5
ON RELATIONSHIPS.

What is HIV AND AIDS? 6-8

WHAT ARE STIs AND STDs? 8-13

Where and how to get help? 14-17

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INTRODUCTION

Research emerging over the last two decades has demonstrated the critical impact
of women's subordination to men and exposure to violence on their risk of HIV.
This heightened risk pertains in both adult women and girls. Critical evidence stems
from research with adolescents in South Africa. This shows that those who have
experienced intimate partner violence or who are in relationships with low equality
are at greater risk of incident HIV infections, compared to those who do not. Nearly
one in seven new HIV infections could be prevented if young women were not
subjected to physical or sexual abuse and a similar proportion if they did not
experience the greatest relationship power inequalities. Research also shows that
young women who have experienced sexual abuse in childhood and are not
infected from the sexual acts are at greater risk of subsequent HIV infections as
adolescents. Thus this book has the necessary information to you about the issues
above and how to deal with them along with fun exercises for you to
do………………ENJOY!!!
Miss PHAKATHI   

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INFLUENCE OF GENDER IN EQUALITY ON
RELATIONSHIPS.

WHAT IS GENDER IN EQUALITY?

Gender inequality refers to unequal treatment or perceptions of individuals
based on their gender. It arises from differences in socially constructed gender
roles. Gender systems are often hierarchical; gender binary systems may reflect
the inequalities that manifest in numerous dimensions of daily life. Gender
inequality stems from distinctions, whether empirically grounded or socially
constructed.

HOW DOES IT INFLUENCE RELATIONSHIPS?

These inequalities can increase women’s and girls’ risks of abuse, violent
relationships and exploitation, for example, due to economic dependency and
limited survival and income-earning options, or discrimination under the law as
it relates to marriage, divorce, and child custody rights.

WHAT ARE THE RESULTS OF THESE EFFECTS

 SEXUAL ABUSE
 TEENAGE PREGNACNCY
 VIOLENCE
 INCREASE IN CHANCES OF INFECTION WITH STI’s AND HIV/AIDS

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EFFECT ON GENDER IN EQUALITY ON
RELATIONSHIPS AND GENERAL WELL BEING

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INEQUALITY HAS AFFECTED THE WOMAN AND HER CHILDREN AND
ACCORDING TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONSTITUTION WHAT RIGHTS HAVE
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The following morning, I invited Misty to join me at the Merry Wives Cafe, where
I had made arrangements the previous night to eat breakfast with 30-year-old
Lynette Warner, who had been married to Warren Jeff at the age of 18 and
escaped the FLDS at 26.

While Warren Jeff was on the lam, Lynette says, his henchmen secreted her
away into several so-called "houses of hiding" across the country: in Las Vegas,
South Dakota, Wyoming, Texas, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona. Ultimately, after
Jeff’s was arrested and put in jail, Lynette was placed in solitary confinement, in
a trailer in Colorado City, Arizona, where her older brother acted as jailer, nailing
shut her windows and inverting the doorknob. Lynette crawled barefoot out of
the trailer window, which she had unscrewed and pried off its tracks, in a
desperate escape that was documented by news outlets that referred to her
simply as Jeff’s barefoot wife. Lynette told broadly that she ran in broad daylight
across Arizona Avenue to the Hillsdale, Utah, home of a trustworthy man who
had recently left the church. There, they discussed what to do, ultimately
deciding to call a woman named Kristyn Decker, who left the FLDS at 50 and now
assists other young women fleeing polygamy through the Sound Choices
Coalition.

"The day after I escaped, police went door-to-door through the town with
flyers," that featured a picture of Lynette's face, she told broadly. But by then,
Lynette was fifty miles away in New Harmony, Utah, at Kristyn's home. Within
months, Kristyn adopted Lynette, who now goes by the name Brielle Decker and
calls Kristyn "mom".

We sat and talked for hours at the cafe, which has become something of a tourist
attraction for road trippers traveling through or to the infamous border towns.
Lynette and Misty had never met before, but for Misty, Lynette was something
of a celebrity: Everyone in the FLDS knows her story.

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MISTY’ABUSIVE HUSBAND

MISTY AND HER CHILDREN WHO HAD SURVIVED
ABUSE FROM THEIR ABUSIVE FATHER AND
HUSBAND

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What is HIV AND AIDS?

Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is the virus that causes acquired immune
deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The virus weakens a person's ability to fight
infections and cancer. People with HIV are said to have AIDS when they develop
certain infections or cancers or when their CD4 (T-cell) count is less than 200.

How is it spread?

Only certain body fluids—blood, semen (cum), pre-seminal fluid (pre-cum), rectal
fluids, vaginal fluids, and breast milk—from a person who has HIV can transmit
HIV. These fluids must come in contact with a mucous membrane or damaged
tissue or be directly injected into the bloodstream (from a needle or syringe) for
transmission to occur. Mucous membranes are found inside the rectum, vagina,
penis, and mouth.

How is it managed/ cured?

HIV is not curable. HIV is treated using a combination of medicines to fight HIV
infection. This is called antiretroviral therapy (ART). ART isn’t a cure, but it can
control the virus so that you can live a longer, healthier life and reduce the risk
of transmitting HIV to others.
ART involves taking a combination of HIV medicines (called an HIV regimen)
every day, exactly as prescribed.
These HIV medicines prevent HIV from multiplying (making copies of itself),
which reduces the amount of HIV in your body. Having less HIV in your body
gives your immune system a chance to recover and fight off infections and

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cancers. Even though there is still some HIV in the body, the immune system is
strong enough to fight off infections and cancers.
By reducing the amount of HIV in your body, HIV medicines also reduce the risk
of transmitting the virus to others.
ART is recommended for all people with HIV, regardless of how long they’ve had
the virus or how healthy they are. If left untreated, HIV will attack the immune
system and eventually progress to AIDS.

FIRST STEPS TO TREATMENT

When does nutrition come into play
regarding HIV/ AIDS?

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The basic principles of healthy eating will also serve you well if you are HIV-positive.
These principles include:
 Eating a diet high in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes
 Choosing lean, low-fat sources of protein
 Limiting sweets, soft drinks, and foods with added sugar
 Including proteins, carbohydrates, and a little good fat in all meals and snacks

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WHAT ARE STIs AND STDs?

STDs/STIs
Sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs (sometimes called sexually transmitted
infections, or STIs) affect people of all ages, backgrounds, and from all walks of
life. In SOUTH AFRICA alone there are approximately 20 million new cases each
year, about half of which occur among youth ages 15-24 years.
Getting the facts about STDs/STIs and sexual health is increasingly important.
Diseases that are spread through sexual contact are usually referred to as sexually
transmitted diseases or STDs for short. In recent years, however, many experts in
this area of public health have suggested replacing STD with a new term—
sexually transmitted infection, or STI.
Why the change? The concept of “disease,” as in STD, suggests a clear medical
problem, usually some obvious signs or symptoms. But several of the most
common STDs have no signs or symptoms in the majority of persons infected. Or
they have mild signs and symptoms that can be easily overlooked. So the sexually
transmitted virus or bacteria can be described as creating “infection,” which may

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or may not result in “disease.” This is true of chlamydia, gonorrhoea, herpes, and
human papillomavirus (HPV), to name a few.
For this reason, for some professionals and organizations the term “disease” is
being replaced by “infection.” ASHA has used the term STD since 1988 and it
appears in hundreds of published ASHA documents, including this site. Users of
this site will continue to see it for some time. But in moving forward, you will also
begin to see increased use of the term STI.

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HOW DOES ONE
PREVENT/CURE/MANAGE THEM?

Treatment usually consists of one of the following, depending on the infection:

 Antibiotics. Antibiotics, often in a single dose, can cure many sexually
transmitted bacterial and parasitic infections, including gonorrhoea, syphilis,
chlamydia and trichomoniasis. Typically, you'll be treated for gonorrhoea and
chlamydia at the same time because the two infections often appear together.

Once you start antibiotic treatment, it's crucial to follow through. If you don't think
you'll be able to take medication as prescribed, tell your doctor. A shorter, simpler
treatment regimen may be available.

In addition, it's important to abstain from sex until you've completed treatment
and any sores have healed.

 Antiviral drugs. You'll have fewer herpes recurrences if you take daily
suppressive therapy with a prescription antiviral drug. Antiviral drugs lessen the
risk of infection, but it's still possible to give your partner herpes.

Antiviral drugs can keep HIV infection in check for many years. But the virus
persists and can still be transmitted, though the risk is lower.

The sooner you start treatment, the more effective it is. Once you start treatment
— if you take your medications exactly as directed — it's possible to lower your
virus count to nearly undetectable levels.

If you've had an STI, ask your doctor how long after treatment you need to be retested.
Doing so ensures that the treatment worked and that you haven't been re-infected.

Partner notification and preventive treatment

If tests show that you have an STI, your sex partners, including your current partners
and any other partners you've had over the last three months to one year, need to be
informed so that they can get tested and treated if infected. Each state has different

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requirements, but most mandate that certain STIs be reported to the local or state
health department. Public health departments frequently employ trained disease
intervention specialists who can help with partner notification and treatment referrals.
Official, confidential partner notification can help limit the spread of STIs, particularly
for syphilis and HIV. The practice also steers those at risk toward appropriate
counselling and treatment. And since you can contract some STIs more than once,
partner notification reduces your risk of getting re-infected.

So to treat STD and STI go to a health centre and get medication

Eat healthy

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Exercise

last but not least
CONDOMISE!!!

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Where and how to get help?

Better2Know is the expert in HIV, STI and STD testing, serving thousands of
patients every year. We have tailored our panels of tests to fit your needs, from
individual tests to comprehensive panels designed by World Experts in the field
of HIV and Sexual Health.
Better2Know has established an outstanding network of doctors, nurses and
sample collection depots across South Africa. Through these partnerships, we
bring you the widest and most comprehensive range of tests for Sexually
Transmitted Infections. Better2Know is a world leader in STI testing serving the
needs of thousands of patients around the world each year.
When you book with Better2Know we will make you an appointment with one of
our partner centres specifying which tests you wish to have. Our partner
clinicians will take your samples which will be analysed at one of South Africa's
leading accredited pathology laboratories. Your test results will be reviewed by
Better2Know's sexual health experts. If you test positive, you will be referred to
a doctor who can provide you with advice and a prescription if necessary.
Contacts

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Childline South Africa is a non-profit organisation which works to protect children
from violence and further the culture of children's rights in South Africa. Childline
runs a national, 24-hour, toll-free telephone counselling service for children and
adults, handling over 1 million calls annually. In addition to the Crisis Line
telephone counselling service, Childline also offers services such as online
counselling, training programs for continuous professional development, training
on court preparation, and workshops on child law.

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LoveLife is a youth focused HIV prevention initiative in South Africa. The not-for-
profit organisation promotes AIDS-free living among South African youth aged
between 12 and 19 by employing a holistic approach to youth development and
behaviour change that motivates adolescents to take charge of their lives for
brighter futures.
The overall aim of loveLife is to reduce the rate of new infections in young people,
in order to reduce the overall prevalence of HIV in South Africa, which stands at
10.9% (2008) of the population. (Additional sources: UNAIDS, HSRC, see also
HIV/AIDS in South Africa) Considering that a high number of new infections are
among 15- to 24-year-olds, loveLife targets people below 15 to ensure they
remain HIV negative and youth above 15 to help them recognise and tackle their
elevated risk of infection.
LoveLife’s comprehensive strategy was designed to address the specifics of the
epidemic in South Africa, as well as its resources and socio-economic
infrastructure. It seeks to achieve sustained engagement with the first generation
of young people growing up in post-apartheid South Africa (the so-called ‘born-
frees’) who are exposed to greater benefits than their parents but still face many
of the socio-economic legacies of apartheid, such as poverty and unemployment.

Contacts

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POWA is a “feminist, women’s rights organisation that provides both services,
and engages in advocacy in order to ensure the realisation of women’s rights and
thereby improve women’s quality of life”.
POWA’s uniqueness as an organisation is in providing both services to survivors
and engaging in advocacy using a feminist and intersectional analysis. Our work
is rooted in the belief that change can only be said to be effective when women’s
lives are directly improved through our interventions. We also believe that there
is no single route to change, and thus constantly seek new and creative
approaches in our programming to achieve the change we seek.

Contacts

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Phone: +27 11 642 4345

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