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Bridging the gap: exploring the attitudes and beliefs of nurses and patients about coexisting traditional and biomedical healthcare systems in a rural setting in KwaZulu-Natal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: M Grant --- Centre for Rural Health, L Haskins --- Centre for Rural Health, B Gaede --- Centre for Rural Health, C Horwood --- Centre for Rural Health,Objectives: Health care in South Africa takes place within a diverse cultural context and includes perceptions about health that strongly link to cultural beliefs and values. Biomedical healthcare professionals, particularly nurses, are exposed to and expected to cope with cultural... -
Biomedical healthcare and African traditional healing in the management of HIV and AIDS: complimentary or competing cosmologies?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Elvis Mendu --- Department of Social Work, South Africa Eleanor Ross --- Centre for Social Development in Africa, South AfricaIn South Africa, African traditional healers and biomedical practitioners play important roles in the management of HIV and AIDS, but provide healthcare services in isolation of each other, despite legislative recognition of both types of healing. An interpretive, qualitative research... -
Traditional healers as caregivers to HIV/AIDS clients and other terminally challenged persons in Kanye community home-based care programme (CHBC), Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: S. M. Kang'ethe --- Centre for Continuous Education (CCE), University of Botswana,The research study done at the Kanye village of Botswana was qualitative in design and exploratory in nature. While the broad goal aimed at assessing the contributions of caregivers in the Kanye CHBC programme, this article aims at evaluating the... -
‘Why would you promote something that is less percent safer than a condom?’: Perspectives on partially effective HIV prevention technologies among key populations in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Clara Rubincam --- , , Canada Peter A. Newman --- , , Canada Millicent Atujuna --- , , South Africa Linda-Gail Bekker --- , , South AfricaNew biomedical prevention technologies (NPTs) for HIV, including oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, and vaginal and rectal microbicides and HIV vaccines in development, may contribute substantially to controlling the HIV epidemic. However, their effectiveness is contingent on product acceptability and adherence. We... -
Pre-exposure prophylaxis as an opportunity for engagement in HIV prevention among South African adolescents
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Ashleigh LoVette --- Brown University School of Public Health, USA Caroline Kuo --- Brown University School of Public Health, USA Danielle Giovenco --- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Jacqueline Hoare --- University of Cape Town, USA Kristen Underhill --- Columbia Law School, USA Don Operario --- Brown University School of Public Health, USAPre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) offers a potential biomedical strategy to reduce HIV incidence among adolescent populations disproportionately affected by HIV. There is limited evidence on the social and clinical implications, including engagement in HIV prevention efforts, of PrEP for South African... -
Barriers and facilitators influencing the use of HIV self-testing amongst adolescent girls and young women in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Mimi Eve Teffo --- School of Built Environment and Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Mbongeleni Thembalihle Mgwaba --- School of Built Environment and Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
