Browsing by Author "Swift, Andrew"
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Results Per Page
Sort Options
- ItemOpen AccessNegotiating modern and traditional discourses of HIV/AIDS in a rural South African community: school impact and personal cost(2011) Swift, Andrew; Jacklin, HeatherThe study assessed two broad types of HIV/AIDS narrative, namely ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’. Traditional HIV/AIDS discourse refers to community responses to the disease that ‘resist dominant epidemiological narratives’, while the modern narrative refers to mainstream, scientific research that is supported by the majority of health professionals and the scientific community in South Africa.