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Title Is the spread of knowledge the key to decrease HIV/AIDS prevalence in South Africa? Is the spread of knowledge the key to decrease HIV/AIDS prevalence in South Africa?
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/2077/38655
Date 2015
Author(s) Asking, Malin; Gruber, Anna
Abstract The thesis aims to measure the impact HIV/AIDS knowledge has on risk-related behavior among youths in rural areas of South Africa; a country with the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence in the world. The HIV/AIDS problem of South Africa is of enormous importance to thousands of people since it has affected the development of the country for decades. In November of 2014, a field study was conducted in Hluhluwe, a township located in a rural part of South Africa. In this thesis, previously research together with a chosen theoretical framework and gathered data is used in order to create a contribution to this field of study. Overall, the results from the study imply that HIV knowledge does not have a clear effect on youths' risk-related behavior; it is more likely other factors that determine an individual's risk-related behavior in this case. The fact that individuals live in a world with high HIV/AIDS prevalence might affect their life expectancy and future beliefs, and this in turn could affect their decision-making.
Subject(s) HIV/AIDS knowledge; Risk behavior; Sexual risk-taking; Non-sexual risk-taking; South Africa; Rural areas
Language eng
Relation 201504:131; Uppsats
Type of publication M2
Repository Gothenberg - University of Gothenberg
Added to C-A: 2015-04-14;13:14:14