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Developing predictive models for depression and risktaking behavior among people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA): A focus on the construction of the Self and Implicative Dilemmas
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
Due to the chronicity of the HIV infection, substantial changes may occur in the life of people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHAs), emerging new needs must be understood and dealt with, enhancing the already existing ones. ...
Stress in the SA Navy: Piloting and evaluating the validity and reliability of a developed therapeutic recreation stress leisure and appraisal tool
(2021)
The nature of naval member’s job demands is that they experience high levels of stress. Stress
is introduced in military training to familiarize sailors with real life stressors. This study is
located in piloting and ...
Black, South African, lesbian: Discourses of invisible lives
(University of the Western Cape, 1997)
The main aim of the present study is to undertake an examination of the discourses regarding lesbianism as produced by a group of black South African lesbians.
Discourses of heterosexual subjectivity and negotiation
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)
It is widely acknowledged that there are problems with the way in which heterosexual relationships are negotiated. A critical focus on heterosexuality has been particularly stimulated by feminist discourse on gender power ...
The social construction of racialised identities in the post-apartheid South African sport context: A case study of black sport-persons in the western cape
(University of Western Cape, 2001)
The main purpose of the study was to analyse how current discourses about black South
African sport-persons contribUJte to the racial Othering of this group and how they serve
to perpetuate neoracist notions of blacks' ...
Psychosocial variables in the transmission of AIDS
(University of the Western Cape, 1991)
In the decade since first identified, the Acquired Immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has become a serious global disease. The nature of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, whereby a carrier may be ...
How the experiences of Infertility and In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer (IVF -ET) are understood by South African women attending fertility clinics.
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)
Infertility is currently a serious problem that is escalating, not only in South Africa, but also worldwide. In Cape Town, a culturally diverse, urban community of approximately 1000 couples are referred to the Groote ...
The quality of care for sexually transmitted infections in primary health care clinics in South Africa: an evaluation of the implementation of the syndromic management approach
(2003)
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a problem for both developed and developing countries. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rates in the 15-49 years old group. The discovery that these infections playa vital role ...
The quality of care for sexually transmitted infections in primary health care clinics in South Africa: an evaluation of the implementation of the syndromic management approach
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a problem for both developed and developing countries. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rates in the 15-49 years old group. The discovery that these infections playa vital role ...
The development of a contextually based programme designed to increase family resilience processes for families in a rural community on the West Coast South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Family environments can greatly affect the prospects of the children and their succeeding
generations. South Africa's socio-political history and contextual circumstances continue to
affect the structure and functioning ...