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The 2003 Cape Area Study (CAS 3): A User's Guide

Author: Seekings, Jeremy ; Alexander, Karin ; Jooste, Tracy ; Matzner, Isaac Date: 2004 The Cape Area Study (CAS) comprises an ongoing series of surveys conducted in Cape Town.?The surveys have covered and will continue to cover a wide range of topics.?Over time, however, CAS will have a quality that is unique in South Africa ... Read more c b n d
Adaptations, alterations and shifted strategies: the pragmatics of knowledge transfer in HIV and AIDS interventions in South Africa

Author: Wreford, Joanne Date: 2009 The historical relationship between western and traditional health practitioners in South Africa was always uncomfortable and remote. This paper does not rehearse the complex colonial history of this disjunction, but rather focuses on some ... Read more c b n d
‘Affordability’ and the political economy of social protection in contemporary Africa

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: Dec 2016 The ‘affordability’ of new or expanded social protection programmes depends on more than an assessment of the fiscal costs or the poverty-reducing or developmental benefits. Diverse international organisations have showed that programmes ... Read more c b
Africa's growth dividend? Lived poverty drops across much of the continent

Author: Mattes, Robert ; Dulani, Boniface ; Gyimah-Boadi, E Date: Jan 2016 Though Africa has recorded high levels of economic growth over the past decade, previous Afrobarometer surveys of citizens found little evidence that this growth had reduced levels of poverty in any consistent way (Dulani, Mattes, & Logan, ... Read more
The African Legislatures Project: First Findings

Author: Barkan, Joel D ; Mattes, Robert ; Mozaffar, Shaheen ; Smiddy, Kimberly Date: 2010 This report presents the "first findings" from the African Legislatures Project or ALP. The report is based on the preliminary coding and analysis of data obtained from research in six countries-Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Namibia and ... Read more c b n d
After a Decade of Growth in Africa, Little Change in Poverty at the Grassroots

Author: Dulani, Boniface ; Mattes, Robert ; Logan, Carolyn Date: Oct 2013 New data from Round 5 of the Afrobarometer, collected across an unprecedented 34 African countries between October 2011 and June 2013,1 demonstrates that “lived poverty” remains pervasive across the continent. This data, based on the views ... Read more
Ahoy the Good Hope?: some bearings and signals in Seldom-Navigated Waters - on inequality in South Africa's Coloured and African population

Author: Dieden, Sten Date: 2005 Previous studies have decomposed South African income inequality into inequality between and within the population groups defined by the apartheid regime's racial classification system. While a substantial fraction of total inequality can be ... Read more c b n d
Ahoy the Good Hope?: some bearings and signals in Seldom-Navigated Waters - on inequality in South Africa's Coloured and African population

Author: Dieden, Sten Date: 2005 Previous studies have decomposed South African income inequality into inequality between and within the population groups defined by the apartheid regime's racial classification system. While a substantial fraction of total inequality can be ... Read more c b n d
AIDS and heritage management in South Africa: the case of traditional male circumcision

Author: Deacon, Harriet Date: 2008 The AIDS pandemic poses a serious threat to heritage resources, tangible and intangible, and to communities who practice and value these heritage resources, especially in Southern Africa. Cultural practices, such as male circumcision and ... Read more c b n d
AIDS and human security in Southern Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2002 HIV/AIDS is the greatest health threat facing humankind - particularly for those people living in Southern Africa. Of the estimated 40 million people infected with HIV worldwide, over two thirds live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Southern African ... Read more c b n d
AIDS and the scientific governance of medicine in South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2006 South Africa's approach to AIDS has been shaped by persistent antipathy on the part of President Mbeki and his Health Minister towards antiretroviral therapy. This was framed initially by Mbeki's questioning of AIDS science and subsequently ... Read more c b n d
AIDS growth and distribution in South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2002 This paper discusses recent research into the economic impact of AIDS in South Africa. It focuses on demographic and macroeconomic modelling and on firm-level impact studies. While the overall picture is murky, certain trends and findings are ... Read more c b n d
AIDS Growth and Distribution in South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2002 This paper discusses recent research into the economic impact of AIDS in South Africa. It focuses on demographic and macroeconomic modelling and on firm-level impact studies. While the overall picture is murky, certain trends and findings are ... Read more
AIDS, gender and access to Antiretroviral treatment in South Africa

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2006 In South Africa, the AIDS epidemic has highly gendered dimensions. Typically, women's social oppression is implicated in understanding gender and AIDS issues. In the context of treatment, this paper shows that HAART coverage is better for ... Read more c b n d
Alternative explanations about HIV and AIDS: re-examining distrust among young adults in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Rubincam, Clara Date: 31 Jul 2014 Alternative beliefs about HIV – such as the man-made origins of the virus or the existence of a cure – can undermine trust in and engagement with HIV prevention and treatment initiatives. It is therefore crucial to study the reasons why these ... Read more c b
Alternative explanations about HIV and AIDS: re-examining distrust among young adults in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Rubincam, Clara Date: 2014 Alternative beliefs about HIV - such as the man-made origins of the virus or the existence of a cure - can undermine trust in and engagement with HIV prevention and treatment initiatives. It is therefore crucial to study the reasons why these ... Read more c b n d
Ambiguities of 'culture' and the antiretroviral rollout in South Africa

Author: Ashforth, Adam ; Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2006 This paper reflects on two contrasting cultural strategies for supporting the rollout of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART): The Treatment Action Campaign's Treatment Literacy Programme which seeks to educate people into a conventional ... Read more c b n d
The Amy Biehl HIV/AIDS peer educators programme: An impact assessment of the valued benefits and disbenefits for the programme participants

Author: Porter, Stephen ; Wale, Kim Date: 2005 This paper is the final deliverable of an impact assessment programme commissioned by the Amy Biehl Foundation to investigate the deeper impacts, benefits and disbenefits, on the recipients of the HIV/AIDS peer educators programme. This paper ... Read more c b n d
An analysis of economic infrastructure investment in South Africa

Author: Perkins, Peter ; Fedderke, Johann ; Luiz, John Date: 2005 This paper analyses long-term trends in the development of South Africa's economic infrastructure and how this relates to the country's long-term economic growth. A database covering railways, roads, ports, air travel, phone lines and electricity ... Read more c b n d
The antiretroviral moratorium in the Free State Province of South Africa: Contributing factors and implications

Author: Hodes, Rebecca ; Grimsrud, Anna Date: 2011 In November 2008, a moratorium on initiating new patients onto antiretroviral (ARV) treatment was enacted by the Provincial Department of Health in the Free State province of South Africa. The moratorium, which was part of a series of cost ... Read more

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