%0 Journal Article
%T Being an ¡®adolescent¡¯: The consequences of gendered risks for young people in rural Uganda
%A Claire Thompson
%A Dominic Bukenya
%A Fatuma Ssembajja
%A Janet Seeley
%A Sarah Bernays
%J Childhood
%@ 1461-7013
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0907568217732119
%X The behaviour of adolescents is recognised increasingly as having substantial and long-term consequences for their health. We examined the meaning of ¡®adolescence¡¯ in southern Uganda with HIV-positive young people aged 11¨C24£¿years. Adolescent girls and boys are described differently in the local language (Luganda). Adolescence is described as a behavioural rather than a life course category and an inherently dangerous one. The practices, risks and consequences of ¡®adolescent¡¯ behaviour are highly gendered. Local understandings of adolescence are likely to have a significant impact on the efficacy of interventions designed to minimise their ¡®risky behaviour¡¯
%K Adolescence
%K qualitative research
%K sub-Saharan Africa
%K sexual health
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0907568217732119