Eliza Govender

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Eliza Govender

Eliza Govender

@ElizaGovender

Associate Professor & Academic Leader (CCMS)| Development & Participatory Health Communication | SBCC | Participatory Methodologies in HIV biomedical Research.

Durban, South Africa Katılım Mayıs 2021
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Eliza Govender
Eliza Govender@ElizaGovender·
@ProfSarahGibson South Africa has a track record of utilizing entertainment education for health promotion. We see this with our localised responses to the HIV pandemic. Learning and educating through humor and entertainment is definitely part of our South African pandemic response.
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Sarah Gibson
Sarah Gibson@ProfSarahGibson·
I looked at how this global pandemic has seen a resurgence of the nation-building project in South Africa - seen in watching the televised live presidential addresses, the political rhetoric of the speeches, and circulation of memetic media. #CommunicatingCOVID #CroakeyREAD
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Sarah Gibson
Sarah Gibson@ProfSarahGibson·
I was interested in the role of social media and participatory culture in spreading health-communication messages and humorous memes in order to stop the spread of the virus. #CommunicatingCOVID #CroakeyREAD
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Eliza Govender
Eliza Govender@ElizaGovender·
Harnessing the potential of community engagement during pandemic requires us to address the challenges, contradictions and consequences of our dominant public health responses but also highlights the need to re-position, re-visit and re-amplify the voices of communities.
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Eliza Govender
Eliza Govender@ElizaGovender·
COVID-19 has reminded us to think about health in an interdisciplinary way, and too create new spaces for engagement, dialogue and digital conversations. #CroakeyREAD
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Eliza Govender
Eliza Govender@ElizaGovender·
What does physical distancing mean for a student who has returned home in lockdown to a crowded space with 10 family members? #CroakeyREAD
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Eliza Govender
Eliza Govender@ElizaGovender·
With limited vaccine access, our non-pharmaceutical interventions remain a priority but community voices in our pandemic responses is fundamental to advance localise our responses. #CroakeyREAD
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Eliza Govender
Eliza Govender@ElizaGovender·
Relinquishing fundamental dialogical and communicative practices for communities in a pandemic response impacts the uptake of COVID-19 preventative measures and behaviour change. #CroakeyREAD
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Eliza Govender
Eliza Govender@ElizaGovender·
The powerful role of communities and understanding their lived experiences must remain our evidence-based reality to advance COVID-19 prevention. #CroakeyREAD
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Eliza Govender
Eliza Govender@ElizaGovender·
my adoption of health communication is through the lens of development communication which ‘invokes new ways of harnessing media and localised cultural frames in promoting health initiatives and community development #CroakeyREAD
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Eliza Govender
Eliza Govender@ElizaGovender·
My point of departure in this chapter, is highlighting that most health communication approaches stringently adopt a public health or health promotion strategy that are often devoid of the communicative practices or community voices. #CroakeyREAD
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Eliza Govender
Eliza Govender@ElizaGovender·
I explore some of these examples of community voices and responses to issues of physical distancing, specifically highlighting the urgency to give communities voices to deconstruct and reconstruct their own health imperatives in a dominated public health world. #CroakeyREAD
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Eliza Govender
Eliza Govender@ElizaGovender·
“People living in South Africa’s black townships face the choice of staying at home and starving or going out to work and risk being infected” #CroakeyREAD
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Eliza Govender
Eliza Govender@ElizaGovender·
“living in dire social and economic conditions makes it difficult for people in black townships to observe global ‘gold standard’ measures aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as social distancing and isolation” #CroakeyREAD
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Eliza Govender
Eliza Govender@ElizaGovender·
Some considerations as we think about what physical distancing actually means from research: “Social distancing is a privilege – and one that not all countries, are able to afford”’ #CroakeyREAD
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Eliza Govender
Eliza Govender@ElizaGovender·
In collecting data and conducting research with communities, physical distancing was not a message most people could adhere too during a lockdown. #CroakeyREAD
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Eliza Govender
Eliza Govender@ElizaGovender·
My chapter specifically challenges the physical distancing as one of the key non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) for South African communities during the initial phase of the national lockdown. #CroakeyREAD
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Eliza Govender
Eliza Govender@ElizaGovender·
My chapter calls for communication that addresses structural inequalities and promotes ‘people-centred communication’. Pandemic communication must allow listening with responsibility and accountability, it calls for ethically listening to community voices. #CroakeyREAD
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