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Although the provision of life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment is central to the medical and policy response to the HIV pandemic, relatively little research in the SADC region and in Namibia particularly, attends to HIV-positive people's experiences and the social effects of taking ARV treatment, with children being least focused on. The study from which the paper is drawn contributes to this dearth by examining the experiences of HIV-positive high school learners on ARV treatment in...

ii OPSOMMING iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iv CONTENTS v LIST OF TABLES ix LIST OF FIGURES x APPENDICES xi CHAPTER ONE 1 INTERGROUP RELATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA 1 A Brief History of Intergroup Relations in South Africa 1 Intergroup Relations before Apartheid 1 Intergroup Relations during Apartheid (1948-1994) 3 Intergroup Relations in post-Apartheid South Africa 5 The University Context 7 The Present Study 8 Chapter Overview 9 CHAPTER TWO 11 THE CONTACT-PREJUDICE RELATIONSHIP 11 The Contact Hypothesis:...

Between 2011 and 2012, 40.1% of all sexual offences in South Africa involved children under 18. Important scholarship has demonstrated how large-scale social and economic inequalities structure African girls’ risk to and experience of sexual violence leading to a condemnation of violent masculinities and the social processes that produce it. Under conditions of chronic poverty and unstable living conditions, girls’ vulnerability to sexual violence is increased. Schools located in extreme...

A perennial challenge facing public technical and vocational education and training (TVET) colleges in South Africa is that the majority of staff, while technically qualified to do the work that forms the contents of what they teach, are either not professionally qualified educators, or are professionally qualified as educators in other educational sectors. For TVET lecturers, the development of their teaching skills, like their professional identity, relies primarily on informal development...

Universal access to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services for adolescents was added as a target to the revised Millennium Development Goals framework in 2005. However, the utilization of SRH services among adolescents and their sexual activity is not well explored in Ethiopia, with the result that there is no well-designed and sustainable school based intervention for high school students. We aimed to investigate the utilization of sexual and reproductive health services and sexual...

BackgroundIn the absence of adequate services, patients have to rely on the few health professionals that they do come into contact with to advise them on their treatment options. The aim of this study was to determine the level of awareness and knowledge of glaucoma, and the association between these factors and self‐care practices among final year health science university students in hana.MethodA cross‐sectional survey involving the use of a structured questionnaire was conducted among...

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In a recent article, Bird et al. (2013) discuss a workshop held at the University of Goroka in Papua New Guinea (PNG) in 2012. The workshop was intended to offer a new methodological framework for language documentation and capacity building that streamlines the documentation process and accelerates the global effort to document endangered languages through machine translation and automated glossing technology developed by computer scientists. As a volunteer staff member at the workshop, in...

Using the paradigm of the feminist standpoint theory, this paper explores the perceptions of women in leadership in Higher Education about the need for the development of institutional structures to support them in leadership positions. Three open-ended questions were sent via e-mail to the respondents, who were purposefully selected as a convenient sample. The responses were analysed using a qualitative research design of thematic analysis. Provide research methodology. These findings...

We present multi-method case studies of two Zimbabwean primary schools – one rural and one small-town. The rural school scored higher than the small-town school on measures of child well-being and school attendance by HIV-affected children. The small-town school had superior facilities, more teachers with higher morale, more specialist HIV/AIDS activities, and an explicit religious ethos. The relatively impoverished rural school was located in a more cohesive community with a more critically...

The use of culturally relevant material for urban students with special education/reading risk is frequently promoted in the literature; however, the empirical evidence appears limited. This study included eight African American urban second-grade students who scored within the at-risk range on the DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency measure. The students read culturally relevant and non-culturally relevant passages to assess differences in reading fluency, comprehension, and passage likeability....

The use of culturally relevant material for urban students with special education/reading risk is frequently promoted in the literature; however, the empirical evidence appears limited. This study included eight African American urban second-grade students who scored within the at-risk range on the DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency measure. The students read culturally relevant and non-culturally relevant passages to assess differences in reading fluency, comprehension, and passage likeability....

Hearing impairment (HI) is the most frequent sensory defect. Genetic causes are involved in two thirds of prelingual cases. Moreover, the autosomal recessive HI frequency is increased in countries where there is a high rate of consanguinity, such as in North African Mediterranean countries. This population shares several features, including history and social behavior, that promote the spread of founder mutations. HI is characterized by tremendous heterogeneity in both the genetic and...

Menstruation remains a taboo subject and presents many challenges to girl learners in South Africa. Cultural taboos about menstruation also have a negative impact on the dignity, school participation and health of girl learners. This study explores the menstrual hygiene practices and knowledge of girls at 10 rural government high schools in the North West Province. The study focuses on themes related to knowledge, practices, beliefs, and challenges related to menstrual hygiene management...

Climate change, a reality, a myth, a conspiracy, remains a point of research and concern, specifically with regards to the impact it has on human health. Reports concerning climate change are accepted by many but are also rejected by prominent figures of society and powerful enterprises flourishing in the race for economic development. Yet all living organisms on Earth are dependent on its natural resources and delicate balance of co-existence. A disruption of ecological balance will bring...

The recognition that water provides values for life and is an essential factor for conservation worldwide has led to an increasing need for research and best management practices. As a result, Graphical Information System (GIS) applications were developed to figure out the environmental pollution potential within the Burl River Basin. Burl River Basin has over the years experience minor cases of pollution resulting from diverse human activities; however, the current situation is becoming...

To develop, implement, and assess an interprofessional global service-learning experience in rural government-run clinics and a community hospital for pharmacy and nursing students. An interprofessional educational experience was developed for volunteer pharmacy students to collaborate with nursing students in an established study-abroad elective course. Students participated in interprofessional activities for 27 days in Kanye, Botswana, where they engaged in clinical practice in community...

There is long-standing correlation between Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and major mass extinction events in the Geological Record, postulated to be due to the emission of large quantities of volcanic gases over a geologically short period of time causing major climatic perturbations within the Earth system. The ∼135 Ma Paraná–Etendeka volcanic province of Brazil and Namibia represents something of an enigma amongst LIPs. Despite an erupted volume (>1 Mkm3) comparable to other LIPs...