Chaiyajit, Nada and Walsh, Christopher S.
(2012).
Sexperts! Disrupting injustice with digital community-led HIV prevention and legal rights education in Thailand.
Digital Culture & Education, 4(1),
pp. 145–165.
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Abstract
In addition to growing epidemics of HIV among men that have sex with men (MSM) and transgenders in Thailand, a low awareness of how to access justice increases their vulnerability. This paper presents unique case studies of how two community-based and led organisations used social networking and instant messaging to address this problem. It describes and analyses how online peer-based HIV education and prevention was integrated with access to justice through free university-based clinical legal education (CLE). It argues that re-designing HIV prevention and education through digital technologies with marginalised gay men, other men that have sex with men (MSM) and transgenders is a sustainable community-based and led approach. Furthermore digital media offer strategic opportunities to overcome on-going political violence alongside entrenched stigma and discrimination that disrupt denial of access to justice for populations disproportionately at risk of HIV.
| Item Type: |
Journal Article
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| Copyright Holders: |
2012 Digital Culture & Education |
| ISSN: |
1836-8301 |
| Keywords: |
clinical legal education (CLE); community research; HIV and AIDS; online peer outreach and prevention (OPOP); gay men; other men that have sex with men (MSM); mobile phones; social justice; transgender; Thailand |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Education and Language Studies > Education |
| Item ID: |
33451 |
| Depositing User: |
Christopher Walsh
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| Date Deposited: |
18 Apr 2012 14:13 |
| Last Modified: |
24 Oct 2012 05:32 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/33451 |
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