Impact of Poor Health and AIDS on small Businesses in South Africa

STATUS: Current
PROJECT LEADER:Simbayi, LC (Prof. Leickness)
OTHER TEAM MEMBERS: De Kock, C.J. (Ms Cilna), Peltzer, KF (Prof. Karl), Zuma, K (Prof. Khangelani), Nyawane, CL (Ms Lebo), Ramlagan, S. (Mr Shandir), Samuels, SN (Mrs Sue)
DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)

Abstract

HIV-related stigma has been identified as a barrier to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. While various survey instruments and stigma scales have been developed to measure HIV-related stigma in the general population and among persons with HIV/AIDS (PWHA), there is not a consensus among researchers as to how best to measure stigma. Also, attitudes expressed in surveys may not represent real behavior. Moreover, even if real behavior is observed, such as that someone exhibited ?stigmatizing behavior? towards PWHA, it is unclear whether this same perpetrator would interact differently with other people without HIV. This pilot study breaks new grounds by using experimental economics games and behavioral economics tasks combined with detailed surveys to measure whether people with and without HIV treat each other differently when money is at stake.

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