Negotiating modern and traditional discourses of HIV/AIDS in a rural South African community: school impact and personal cost

The study assessed two broad types of HIV/AIDS narrative, namely ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’. Traditional HIV/AIDS discourse refers to community responses to the disease that ‘resist dominant epidemiological narratives’, while the modern narrative refers to mainstream, scientific research that is supported by the majority of health professionals and the scientific community in South Africa.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

School of Education

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Swift, Andrew

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Jacklin, Heather

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11840

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11840