The sociocultural aspects of HIV/AIDS in South Africa

SOURCE: HIV/AIDS in South Africa 25 years on: psychosocial perspectives
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2009
TITLE AUTHOR(S): S.Leclerc-Madlala, L.C.Simbayi, A.Cloete
SOURCE EDITOR(S): P.Rohleder, L.Swartz, S.C.Kalichman, L.C.Simbayi
KEYWORDS: AFRICAN PEOPLE, HIV/AIDS, SOCIO-CULTURAL PRACTICES
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 6212
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/4395
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4395

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on some sociocultural aspects of life within the majority black African population of South Africa, most of whom speak languages that are classified within the broad linguistic grouping of Bantu Languages.