Refugee women, gender-based challenges, HIV and AIDS and the French-Swahili church in Pietermaritzburg.
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2007
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This study is about refugee women from the Great Lakes Region, who are living in Pietermaritzburg and face many challenges that contribute to their vulnerability to HIV and AIDS. These include the challenges of language barriers, lack of communication, gender based violence, and other socio-economic problems. This dissertation seeks to investigate critically some of the gender-based challenges that the refugee women from Great Lakes Region face in Pietermaritzburg which can make them vulnerable to HIV and AIDS. Though there is much literature written on the challenges of women refugees in Africa, there is not much written on the challenges of refugee women who live in cities. This study was involved to eight women and two male church leaders of the French-Swahili church in Pietermaritzburg where these refugee women fellowship.
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Thesis (M.Th.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.
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Pentecostal churches--KwaZulu-Natal--Pietermaritzburg., AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Christianity., AIDS (Disease)--KwaZulu-Natal--Pietermaritzburg., AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--KwaZulu-Natal--Pietermaritzburg., Church work with women--KwaZulu-Natal--Pietermaritzburg., Women refugees--KwaZulu-Natal--Pietermaritzburg., Sex role--Religious aspects--Christianity., Sex role--Africa., Women--Africa--Social conditions., Church work with refugees--KwaZulu-Natal--Pietermaritzburg., Theses--Theology.