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Perceptions of different subsets of African men and African men and African traditional healers in the Durban Metropolitan area that sexual intercourse with young girl can cure HIV/AIDS

A dissertation submitted in full compliance with the requirements for a Masters Degree in Technology: Nursing at Durban Institute of Technology, 2005. / There has been an increase in child/girl rape in South Africa, Statistics of child rape have shown that a child was being raped every 25 minutes in South Africa (Child Protection Unit, S.AP.S., 1999). The numbers of child rapes has increased from 12% in 1998 to 19,94% in 2001 (Taylor, 2002). Reports indicated that in some instances, child rape was being carried out as a cure for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) (Kufwa, 1998). / M

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:dut/oai:ir.dut.ac.za:10321/2678
Date January 2005
CreatorsNdlovu, Busisiwe Adelaide
ContributorsGrainger, Linda D.
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Format523 p

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