scholarly journals Nurses’ knowledge of HIV/AIDS

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 3047
Author(s):  
Robert Siebers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Aids Patients ◽  
Discussion Section ◽  
African Study ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude ◽  
Hiv Aids

A recent article in this journal presented the knowledge and attitude towards caring for HIV/AIDS patients in Nigeria. The authors, in their discussion section, state that the majority of their respondents had a good knowledge of HIV/AIDS in contrast to the results of a South African study of nurses. In support of that statement the authors cite the study of Juan et al and hypothesise that this difference may be due to the fact that their study was done in urban areas of Nigeria while the study by Juan et al was done in a rural area of South Africa.

scholarly journals Disability Grant: a precarious lifeline for HIV/AIDS patients in South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Veloshnee Govender ◽  
Jana Fried ◽  
Stephen Birch ◽  
Natsayi Chimbindi ◽  
Susan Cleary
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Aids Patients ◽  
Disability Grant ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals Assessment of effectiveness of traditional herbal medicine in managing HIV/AIDS patients in South Africa

2004 ◽  
Vol 81 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
KC Tshibangu ◽  
ZB Worku ◽  
MA De Jongh ◽  
AE Van Wyk ◽  
SO Mokwena ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Herbal Medicine ◽  
Traditional Herbal Medicine ◽  
Aids Patients ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals Polygynous Muslim Marriages in South Africa: Their Potential Impact on the Incidence of HIV/AIDS

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
N Moosa
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
The South ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Islamic Values ◽  
Hiv Aids

This article examines whether there is any relationship between the institution of polygynous marriages in Islam and the incidence or spread of the disease. It is suggested that, while polygyny may be a contributing factor, it is not the institution of marriage per se that relates to the disease (although the prospect of greater infection intra marriage must be present in polygynous marriages, if the husband is the infecting party), but the conduct of the parties to the marriage relationship, whatever its nature.The focus and thrust lies with the institution of polygyny in Islam, the South African response to polygyny, the (potential) impact of polygyny on the incidence of AIDS, and the contribution that both an informed approach to HIV and an enlightened approach to the application of Islamic values could or would have on the limitation of the disease's spread

Between Self-help and Dependence: Donor Funding and the Fight Against HIV/AIDS in South Africa

Africa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 496-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista Johnson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
South African Government ◽  
The South ◽  
African Countries ◽  
African Government ◽  
Global Response ◽  
Donor Funding ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Hiv Aids

This article examines funding for HIV/AIDS in South Africa, and the relationship between foreign donors and the South African government. The recognition of the AIDS pandemic as an epochal crisis has led to a proliferation of international and donor organizations now directly involved in the governance, tracking and management of the pandemic in many African countries. In many ways, the heavy donor hand that is increasingly defining the pandemic and the global response to it feeds into a new imperialist logic that subordinates pan-African agendas, masks broader issues of access central to the fight against the pandemic, and strengthens traditional relationships of dependence between wealthy Western nations and poorer African nations. The South African government's relationship with foreign donors, however, has been shaped by its efforts to develop an African response to the pandemic not determined nor primarily funded by foreign aid. This article highlights the positive and negative implications of the sometimes contentious relationship between the South African government and foreign donors, as well as the Africa-centred, self-help agenda it pursues, highlighting the opportunities as well as challenges for African governments to define the global response to the pandemic.

HIV/AIDS and National Health Insurance in South Africa

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Crisp
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
South African ◽  
National Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
National Health Insurance Scheme ◽  
Insurance Scheme ◽  
African Health ◽  
South African Health ◽  
Hiv Aids

Chapter 18 describes how Dr Motsoaledi, the South African Health Minister, set about leading the fight on HIV/AIDS in South Africa, and introducing a national health insurance scheme in order to offer healthcare to every person in the country, by building on the work that was already underway. It describes his complex story, with many confusing cross-currents and elements of conflict and intrigue, and how a large part of the Minister’s role involved trying to cut through the confusion, offer a clear pathway for the future, and communicate

DEATH ‘ON THE MOVE’: FUNERALS, ENTREPRENEURS AND THE RURAL–URBAN NEXUS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Africa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebekah Lee
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Funeral Directors ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Cultural Mediators ◽  
The Dead

ABSTRACTThis article primarily concerns the intersection of the changing management of death with the problems and possibilities presented by the growing mobility of the African, and specifically Xhosa-speaking, population in South Africa from the latter half of the twentieth century to the present day. I am interested in how shifts in the practices and beliefs around death are mediated by individuals, households and businesses who have an historical affinity towards movement, particularly across what has been called the ‘rural–urban nexus’. In what ways has this more mobile orientation influenced the perception of rites and responsibilities surrounding death? And how have more mobile ‘ways of dying’ in turn created new subjectivities and new ways in which to imagine relations between the living and the dead? I argue that African funeral directors based in Cape Town and the rural areas of the Eastern Cape – a steadily more numerous and prominent group of entrepreneurs – are well-placed to shape these processes, through their role as cultural mediators and technological innovators, and their particular emphasis on maintaining a flow of bodies (both dead and alive) between rural and urban areas. I focus on two aspects of contemporary South African funerals – embalming and exhumations – that are suggestive of how the migration dynamic, and the continuing demands from mobile mourners for innovations via the funeral industry, have encouraged new perceptions of and relations to the dead body.

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