Attitudes of HIV positive patients in South Africa to African traditional healers and their practices
| dc.contributor.author | Mall, Sumaya | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-04-29T07:10:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-04-29T07:10:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-04-29T07:09:01Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This study explores the use of African traditional healers by people using Antiretroviral (ARV) treatment in South Africa. It focuses on the insights and? opinions of two different populations: HIV positive patients attending ARV services and lay healthcare workers (patient advocates and ARV counsellors) providing counselling services parallel to ARV treatment. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to explore the attitudes of patients to African traditional healers and their practices. This was complemented by in depth interviews with patients who reported use of traditional healing systems in the past year. The responses show that the majority of respondents had never accessed a traditional healing service. Only two patients were found to be actively crossing between ARV treatment facilities and traditional healing services at the time of their interview. The study also included two focus group discussions with lay health workers (i.e. ARV counsellors and patient advocates) at two ARV sites. On the whole it showed that lay health workers support an ARV roll out process that effectively underplays the role of traditional healers and therefore actively discourages their patients from using traditional healing services while taking ARV treatment. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Mall, S. (2008). <i>Attitudes of HIV positive patients in South Africa to African traditional healers and their practices</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19304 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Mall, Sumaya <i>Attitudes of HIV positive patients in South Africa to African traditional healers and their practices.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19304 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mall, S. (2008). Attitudes of HIV Positive Patients in South Africa to African Traditional healers and their practices. Centre for Social Science Research: University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Mall, Sumaya AB - This study explores the use of African traditional healers by people using Antiretroviral (ARV) treatment in South Africa. It focuses on the insights and? opinions of two different populations: HIV positive patients attending ARV services and lay healthcare workers (patient advocates and ARV counsellors) providing counselling services parallel to ARV treatment. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to explore the attitudes of patients to African traditional healers and their practices. This was complemented by in depth interviews with patients who reported use of traditional healing systems in the past year. The responses show that the majority of respondents had never accessed a traditional healing service. Only two patients were found to be actively crossing between ARV treatment facilities and traditional healing services at the time of their interview. The study also included two focus group discussions with lay health workers (i.e. ARV counsellors and patient advocates) at two ARV sites. On the whole it showed that lay health workers support an ARV roll out process that effectively underplays the role of traditional healers and therefore actively discourages their patients from using traditional healing services while taking ARV treatment. DA - 2008 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2008 T1 - Attitudes of HIV positive patients in South Africa to African traditional healers and their practices TI - Attitudes of HIV positive patients in South Africa to African traditional healers and their practices UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19304 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19304 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Mall S. Attitudes of HIV positive patients in South Africa to African traditional healers and their practices. 2008 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19304 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | |
| dc.title | Attitudes of HIV positive patients in South Africa to African traditional healers and their practices | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |