Objective: To describe recent trends in adolescent sexual behavior in Cape Town, South Africa, and to determine whether household and community poverty and negative economic …
AV Bengesai, HTA Khan, R Dube - Journal of biosocial science, 2018 - cambridge.org
Early sexual debut is of major concern because it is a correlate for health and economic shocks experienced in adulthood. In South Africa, this concern has provided impetus for …
P Talwar, MFB Abd Rahman - South East Asia Journal of Public …, 2015 - academia.edu
Globally, the spread of HIV/AIDS has become a major health concern due to its pandemic proportions. Although people of any age are vulnerable to HIV, the younger populace are …
AH Eide, C Schür, C Ranchod, P Rohleder, L Swartz… - AIDS care, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The main research question in this article is how access to information about HIV/AIDS and level of HIV/AIDS prevention related knowledge are distributed among disabled people, and …
Analyses of individual-level risk factors have not been able to adequately explain why HIV has spread so extensively in southern Africa and why this has occurred especially within …
LE Aarø, K Breivik, KI Klepp, S Kaaya… - Health education …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
A 14-item human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome knowledge scale was used among school students in 80 schools in 3 sites in Sub-Saharan Africa (Cape …
The South African construction industry is one of the economic sectors most adversely affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Prevalence rates exceed those of most other sectors …
L Mnguni - International Journal of STEM Education, 2019 - Springer
Background Research suggests that the South African school curriculum, including subjects such as Life Sciences, may be failing to address students' socio-scientific challenges such …
E Wolff, L Mnguni - African Journal of Research in Mathematics …, 2015 - journals.co.za
The potential of science to transform lives has been highlighted by a number of scholars. This means that critical socio-scientific issues (SSIs) must be integrated into science …