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The 2001 National Survey of South African Youth

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Page : 62 pages

File Size : 12,7 MB

Release : 2001

Category : 2001 loveLife National Awareness and Impact Survey

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LoveLife is a new lifestyle brand for young South Africans promoting healthy living and positive sexuality. Organised under the auspices of Mrs. Zanele Mbeki and other leading South Africans, loveLife combines high-powered media with nationwide adolescent sexual health services, outreach and support programmes. loveLife's programmes are implemented by a consortium of leading South African non-governmental organisations: the Reproductive Health Research Unit, the Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa and the Health Systems Trust. Major funding for loveLife is provided by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the South African Government, UNICEF and the Nelson Mandela Foundation.



Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : National Research Council

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 368 pages

File Size : 13,80 MB

Release : 2006-11-10

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0309180090

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In sub-Saharan Africa, older people make up a relatively small fraction of the total population and are supported primarily by family and other kinship networks. They have traditionally been viewed as repositories of information and wisdom, and are critical pillars of the community but as the HIV/AIDS pandemic destroys family systems, the elderly increasingly have to deal with the loss of their own support while absorbing the additional responsibilities of caring for their orphaned grandchildren. Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa explores ways to promote U.S. research interests and to augment the sub-Saharan governments' capacity to address the many challenges posed by population aging. Five major themes are explored in the book such as the need for a basic definition of "older person," the need for national governments to invest more in basic research and the coordination of data collection across countries, and the need for improved dialogue between local researchers and policy makers. This book makes three major recommendations: 1) the development of a research agenda 2) enhancing research opportunity and implementation and 3) the translation of research findings.



HIV/AIDS in South Africa

Author : S. S. Abdool Karim

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 596 pages

File Size : 20,67 MB

Release : 2005-09-08

Category : Medical

ISBN : 9780521616294

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This Definitive Text covers all aspects of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, from basic science to medicine, sociology, economics and politics. It has been written by a highly respected team of South African HIV/AIDS experts and provides a thoroughly researched account of the epidemic in the region. The book comprises seven sections, the first of which describes the evolving epidemic, presents the numbers behind the epidemic, and captures its nature in one of the worst affected parts of the world. This is followed by a section on the science of the virus, covering its structure and its diagnosis. HIV risk factors and prevention strategies, focal population groups and the impact of HIV/AIDS in all aspects of South African life are discussed in the next four sections. The final sections look at the treatment of HIV/AIDS, the politics of HIV/AIDS treatment, mathematical modelling to extrapolate the potential impact of treatment and finally a discussion of the future of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. This text has been written at an accessible level for the general reader, undergraduate and postgraduate students, health care providers, researchers and policymakers in this field as well as international scholars studying HIV/AIDS in Africa. Book jacket.



Cultured Violence

Author : Rosemary Jane Jolly

Publisher : Liverpool University Press

Page : 193 pages

File Size : 22,9 MB

Release : 2010-01-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1846312132

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Cultured Violence explores contemporary South African culture as a test case for the achievement of democracy by constitutional means in the wake of prolonged and violent cultural conflict. Drawing on and juxtaposing narratives of profoundly different kinds—the fiction of J. M. Coetzee, public testimony form the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, documents from former Deputy President Jacob Zuma's rape trial, and personal interviews among them—in order to illuminate different cultural senses of the “state of the nation” and retrieve otherwise elusive descriptions of South African subjects taken from accounts of their individual lives.



The National Household HIV Prevalence and Risk Survey of South African Children

Author : Heather Brookes

Publisher : HSRC Press

Page : 62 pages

File Size : 15,10 MB

Release : 2004

Category : AIDS (Disease)

ISBN : 9780796920553

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The National Household HIV Prevalence and Risk Survey of South African Children forms part of the Nelson Mandela/HSRC Study of HIV/AIDS: South African National HIV Prevalence, Behavioural Risks and Mass Media Household Survey 2002. This report provides information on HIV prevalence, orphanhood, risk factors for HIV infection and knowledge of HIV/AIDS among South African children. A total of 3 988 children aged 2 to 18 years participated in the survey. Caregivers of 2 138 children 2 to 11 years of of age answered a questionnaire on the child's behalf. A total of 740 children 12 to 14 years of age directly answered a separate questionnaire. An additional 1 110 children and between 15 and 18 years of age answered a youth questionnaire. Of the 3 988 children, 3 294 (82.6 per cent) provided a saliva specimen for HIV testing. The results show HIV prevalence among children 2 to 18 years of age to be 5.4 per cent. Prevalence was nearly constant across age groups and did not vary significantly. There were insufficient numbers to compare prevalence across race groups. The prevalence was higher than expected. Further studies are necessary to verify this finding.



SIECUS Report

Author : Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S.

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Page : 598 pages

File Size : 13,1 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Sex

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Youth Sexuality in the Context of HIV/AIDS in South Africa

Author : Karl Peltzer

Publisher : Nova Publishers

Page : 124 pages

File Size : 44,62 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Medical

ISBN : 9781594548703

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Dowsett (2003) notes that by far, the vast majority of non-biomedical research on HIV/AIDS has been behavioural research, usually by survey methods, counting people's sex acts, partners, preferences, places, times and reasons for sex, and assessing levels of risk for HIV infection, revealing the dominance of seeing sex largely as behaviours.



The Youth Dividend

Author : Jan H. Hofmeyr

Publisher : African Minds

Page : 115 pages

File Size : 14,67 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Labor market

ISBN : 1920489843

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Page : 586 pages

File Size : 20,44 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Medicine

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Youth Violence

Author : Catherine Ward

Publisher : Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd

Page : 447 pages

File Size : 22,9 MB

Release : 2012-01-25

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 1919895876

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Youth violence: Sources and solutions in South Africa thoroughly and carefully reviews the evidence for risk and protective factors that influence the likelihood of young people acting aggressively. Layers of understanding are built by viewing the problem from a multitude of perspectives, including the current situation in which South African youth are growing up, perspectives from developmental psychology, the influences of race, class and gender, and of the media. The book then reviews the evidence for effective interventions in the contexts of young people’s lives – their homes, their schools, their leisure activities, with gangs, in the criminal justice system, in cities and neighbourhoods, and with sexual offenders. In doing so, thoughtful suggestions are made for keeping an evidence-based perspective while (necessarily) adapting interventions for developing world contexts, such as South Africa. Youth violence in South Africa: Sources and solutions is a valuable addition to the library of anyone who has ever wondered about youth violence, or wanted to do something about it.