Young Masculinities and Sexual Health in Southern Africa

1. Young masculinities and sexual health: perspectives from Southern Africa

Deevia Bhana, Morten Skovdal and Kaymarlin Govender

Part I: Love, pleasure and romance

2. Love, masculinity and alternative pathways to sexual health

Moshibudi Motimele, Malose Langa, Darrian Long and Katlego Morare

3. Love as resistance? Young men’s narratives on intimate relationships and healthy sexualities in South Africa

Melusi Andile Dlamini

4. Navigating love, romance and sexual health: adolescent boys' experiences in a South African township

Tsidiso Tolla, Jennifer Nyawira Githaiga and Christopher J. Colvin

Part II: Social norms, masculinity and health

5. Masculine norms and sexual health implications for young men in Zimbabwe

Sophie Bagnay, Morten Skovdal, Rufurwokuda Maswera, Louisa Moorhouse, Phyllis Magoge-Mandizvidza, Brian Moyo, Simon Gregson and Constance Nyamukapa

6. Exploring the intersection of young men’s mobile-internet use, gender attitudes and intimate relationship dynamics: a mixed-methods study

Julie Pulerwitz, Pamela Keilig, Cherie Cawood, David Khanyile, Bhekumusa Lukhele and Ann Gottert

7. Streetwise masculinities: poverty, risk-taking and sexual health in a South African township

Ndumiso Daluxolo Ngidi

8. Masculinities in transition: young trans men, gender and the South African health care system

Landa Mabenge and Pierre Brouard

Part III: Masculinity and sexual risk

9. Living on the Edge: Young Masculinity, Poverty and Sexual Health

Deevia Bhana

10. Amajita: masculinity and sexual risk among young men in a South African informal settlement

Seluleko Eric Ngcobo, Kaymarlin Govender and Wenche Dageid

11. Mjolo, waithood and masculinities among out-of-school young men in Zimbabwe

Manase Kudzai Chiweshe

12. Peer pressure and heterosexual norms among young black men in Somkhele, South Africa

Roselyn Kanyemba, Kaymarlin Govender and Guy Harling

Part IV: Masculinity and HIV

13. How young Zimbabwean men's attitudes towards female PrEP use depend on gender norms

Luca Manual Kaupp, Douglas Muchemwa, Morten Skovdal, Phyllis Magoge-Mandizvidza, Rufurwokuda Maswera, Simon Gregson and Constance Nyamukapa

14. HIV game-changers? A modified scoping review of adolescent boys and young men’s sexual health in the context of PrEP and ART in Southern Africa

Tsitsi B. Masvawure and Frerik Smit

15. Research with adolescent boys and young men living with HIV – reflections on ethical and methodological challenges in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Lesley Gittings, Sinebhongo Mbula and Phakamani Kom

16. Theorising 'other' masculinities among adolescent boys and young men in Southern Africa: implications for sexual health

Morten Skovdal, Deevia Bhana and Kaymarlin Govender

Biography

Deevia Bhana is a professor and South African Research Chair in Gender and Childhood Sexuality at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her research focuses on how gender and sexuality come tomatter in the young life course. Her latest co-edited book is Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health in Southern Africa (2023, Routledge).

Morten Skovdal is a community health psychologist and professor of participatory health research at the University of Copenhagen. He has a particular interest in involving children and young people in research, both to challenge dominant narratives, and to attune interventions to their lived realities. His latest book is entitled Paradoxes of PrEP for HIV Prevention (2025, Policy Press).

Kaymarlin Govender is a director of research at the HEARD Institute and a research professor in the College of Law and Management Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has more than 20 years of experience doing research, interventions and policy analysis with young and vulnerable populations on HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Eastern and Southern Africa. He has more than 130 scientific papers, book chapters and technical reports and has co-edited special issues from leading journals on HIV and sexual health. His most recent co-edited book is Preventing HIV Among Young People in Southern and Eastern Africa: Emerging Evidence and Intervention Strategies (2021, Routledge).