Local aids councils in North-West: the construction and communication of meaning within the context of ownership and accountability
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Date
2006
Authors
Schutte, Paul J.
Boessenkool, Jan
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Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State
Abstract
Many groups and individuals are working hard to come to grips with the phenomenon
of HIV and Aids in all its complicated aspects, whether it is bio-medical, socio-cultural,
gender related and/or socio-economic. One outcome is that governments try to
structure and organise a counter-attack on a national, regional, district and local level.
This organisational structuring is meant to facilitate and co-ordinate the action against
H I V and Aids. Together with this organisational structuring go the hope and
expectation for a resulting effective organisational culture. It is hoped that with the
implementation of an organisational structure an organisational “culture of ownership
and accountability” would develop. However, this does not seem to be the case. In this
article the authors present this particular case and argue that the (implicitly)
presupposed causality between an organisational structure and a culture of ownership
did not realise, as there was and still is too much differentiation in the construction,
interpretation and communication of crucial concepts and aspects concerning HIV and
Aids. The empiric results confirmed this assertion.
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Keywords
HIV/AIDS, North-West government, AIDS council system, PCA Working Document
Citation
Schutte, P. J., & Boessenkool, J. (2006). Local aids councils in North-West: the construction and communication of meaning within the context of ownership and accountability. Communitas, (11), 65-83.