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Table 2 Opportunities and challenges for men's involvement in HIV/AIDS caregiving

From: Occupational segregation, gender essentialism and male primacy as major barriers to equity in HIV/AIDS caregiving: Findings from Lesotho

Opportunities

Challenges

Men's physical strength/lifting and transporting patients

Perception of men's dishonesty/womanizing/untrustworthiness/promiscuity

Psychological flexibility

Perception that men will sexualize care situations

Safe mobility

Women's sense of modesty/decorum

Influencing other men to get tested and give care to other men

Traditional prohibitions against entering spaces where women need to be alone; or that father-in-law cannot care for daughter-in-law

Ease of communication with other men

HIV/AIDS caregiving is unpaid labour

Intimate tasks with men

 

Sharing and solidarity with women

Male breadwinner status and unwillingness to work without financial incentives

Knowledge of first aid

Men's loss of discretionary time

Men can keep secrets

Appropriation of women's social role

Financial incentive for community health workers

Ridicule

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International Journal for Equity in Health

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