ABSTRACT
Young girls within South Africa are particularly vulnerable to teenage pregnancy and contracting HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). For many initiatives aimed at changing this situation the key analysis is that young girls need information about reproductive health. The assumption is that information equals power – to have reproductive health information means to be empowered in negotiating sexuality. To a degree, this is true. However, this chapter describes and analyses an initiative that holds a deeper analysis: namely, that information alone does not equal power. Issues to do with HIV specifically and the girl-child’s sexuality generally are embedded within relations of power that are about more than acquiring information.
