Research Interests
Aging, changing bodies and caring for the self in an advanced epidemic: new realities of care in kinship institutions in the era of ART in Kenya and Tanzania.
Countries Studied
Africa, Kenya, Tanzania.
Related Publications & Presentations
de Klerk, Josien. 2013. “Being tough, being healthy: local forms of counselling in response to adult death in northwest Tanzania.” Culture, Health & Sexuality: An International Journal for Research, Intervention and Care published online 30 July 2013. [DOI]
de Klerk, Josien. Forthcoming. 2012. “The Compassion of concealment: silence between caregivers and dying children in northwest Tanzania.” Culture, Health & Sexuality [Full Text]
de Klerk, Josien. 2011. “Being old in times of AIDS: aging, caring and relating in northwest Tanzania.” African Studies Collection African Studies Centre. [Full Text]
“Aging and Family Care in the Age of HIV.” Presented by de Klerk, Josien at HIV and the Changing Family in East Africa, January 5, 201, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
“Techniques of relating: Negotiating family care for advanced old age in the context of HIV/AIDS, Tanzania.” Presented by de Klerk, Josien at EASA Medical Anthropology Network Conference, Medical Pluralism : Techniques, Politics, Institutions, Rome, 7th-10th of September 2011.
de Klerk, Josien. Centre for Public Heath, Medical University of Vienna. 2010. “The dangers of losing strength: physical ageing and family care in the era of AIDS, northwest Tanzania.” in Viennese Ethnomedicine Letter [Full Text]
de Klerk, Josien. 2010. “Ouder worden met HIV: ervaringen van migranten in Nederland. (Aging with HIV: experiences of migrants in the Netherlands.” in Aging with HIV in the Netherlands. Cees Smit, Kees Brinkman, Kees Rümke en Annemarie de Knecht-van Eekelen, Ed. Aids Fonds and European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS).
de Klerk, Josien. 2007. “‘Who will bury me?’ The difficulties of being made a (grand)parent in northwest Tanzania.” LOVA 28(02):40-49.
Contact & Links
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