CONTINUITIES IN THE HIV/AIDS POLICY DEBATE IN SOUTH AFRICA

Authors

  • Lincoln Jacob Fry retired state attorney's office, Florida 15th Judicial Circuit. Acadedemic appoints to Nova Southeastern, Howard, California Lutheran Universities. Visiting appointments Stockholm and Mississippi State Universities, research appointments University of Sou

Keywords:

Knowledge of AIDS, Assessment of government handling of AIDS, National Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS, Afrobarometer

Abstract

Wouters et al. (2010) critiqued the prospects of success for South Africa’s new National Strategic Plan (NSP) for HIV/AIDS; they stressed the need to mobilize people living with HIV/AIDS and their communities in order to implement the comprehensive HIV/AIDS strategy. Utilizing the South African sample from the Fourth Round of the Afrobarometer survey, this paper identifies the factors which predicted respondent selection of HIV/AIDS as an important issue for the government to address. The identification of HIV/AIDS as an important governmental problem became the study’s dependent variable. Other possible important factors were whether respondents had personal knowledge of HIV/AIDS, meaning they knew someone who died of AIDS, poverty, and their assessments of the way the government was handling the HIV/AIDS crisis. Respondent background and demographic characteristics were also included in a logistic regression analysis. The results identified three factors that predicted respondent choice of HIV/AIDS: race, especially being a Black South African, the choice of health as a governmental priority, and the rural-urban dimension. The conclusion was that HIV/AIDS, as opposed to health, should be the focus of campaigns designed to mobilize public support of comprehensive HIV/AIDS strategies in South Africa.

Author Biography

Lincoln Jacob Fry, retired state attorney's office, Florida 15th Judicial Circuit. Acadedemic appoints to Nova Southeastern, Howard, California Lutheran Universities. Visiting appointments Stockholm and Mississippi State Universities, research appointments University of Sou

retired administrator, Florida 15th Judicial Circuit. Academic appointments Nova Southeastern University, California Luthern University, and Howard University.ifornia Luthern University.Visiting professor Stockholm University, mississippie state university. Ph.ds University of southern California,mississiooi state University.Over 50 academic publications.

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Published

2013-08-05

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Fry, L. J. (2013). CONTINUITIES IN THE HIV/AIDS POLICY DEBATE IN SOUTH AFRICA. African Journal of Infectious Diseases (AJID), 7(2), 21–26. Retrieved from https://athmsi.org/journals/index.php/AJID/article/view/1698

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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2013)

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