Exploring Positive Living in the Face of HIV and AIDS: Implications for Life Skills
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This is a research-based article outlining how HIV/AIDS affects men’s and
women’s adjustment to positive living. It explores issues of challenge,
survival and sexuality and offers culturally appropriate and sensitive life
skills that may be adopted in schools, families and communities. Life skills
education for risk reduction and living positively with HIV and AIDS needs
to be carefully planned and executed, or else it runs the risk of increasing risk
taking behaviour (Visser 2005), an important consideration that this article
heeds.
women’s adjustment to positive living. It explores issues of challenge,
survival and sexuality and offers culturally appropriate and sensitive life
skills that may be adopted in schools, families and communities. Life skills
education for risk reduction and living positively with HIV and AIDS needs
to be carefully planned and executed, or else it runs the risk of increasing risk
taking behaviour (Visser 2005), an important consideration that this article
heeds.
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Kasiram, M., Ngcobo, N., & Mulqueeny, D. (2013). Exploring Positive Living in the Face of HIV and AIDS: Implications for Life Skills. Alternation Journal, (11), 255-272. Retrieved from https://journals.ukzn.ac.za/index.php/soa/article/view/411
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Prevention in South African Schools. Journal of Health Psychology
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Public Health 37, Supplement 2: 48 - 54.
AVERT 2010. Women and HIV/AIDS Statistics. Available at: http://
www.avert.org. (Accessed 23 July 2011.)
Bozalek, V 2007. The Potential of e-learning for the Social Work
Curriculum. The Social Work Practitioner-Researcher 19,2:77 - 94.
Challenges Facing the Moral Regeneration Campaign: Chapter 6.
Available at: www.iss.co.za/pubs/monographs/N0114. (Accessed 8
May 2012.)
Coates, T, L Richter & MD Caceres 2008. The Lancet 372,9639: 669 -
684.
Coombe, C & MJ Kelly 2001. Education as a Vehicle for Combating
HIV/ AIDS. Prospects XXXI,3:438 - 445.
Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) 2009. South African
National HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour and Communication
Survey 2008: A Turning Tide Among Teenagers? Pretoria:
HSRC.
James, S, P Reddy, RAC Ruiter, A McCauley & B den Borne 2006.
The Impact of an HIV and AIDS Life Skills Program on Secondary
School Students in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. AIDS Education.
18,4:281 - 294.
Kasiram, M, R Partab, B Dano, J van Greunen 2003. Managing
HIV/AIDS Guidelines for Counsellors, Caregivers & Faith-Based
Practitioners. Durban: Print Connection.
Kasiram, M 2011. HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Theories and
Practice. The Social Work Practitioner-Researcher 23,2:171 - 189.
Kasiram, M, E Oliphant & R Partab 2011. Postgraduate Students.
2011. Workshop on Women, HIV/AIDS and Survival: Narratives
from Texas and South Africa July 2010, UKZN, Durban.
Kelly, M 2002. Standing Education on its Head: Aspects of Schooling
in a World with HIV/AIDS. Current Issues in Comparative
Education 3,1:28 - 38.
Magnani, R, K MacIntyre, AM Karim, L Brown, P Hutchinson, C
Kaufman, N Rutenburg, J May & A Dallimore 2005. The Impact of
Life Skills Education on Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors in
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Science Direct - Journal of Adolescent
Health 36,4: 289 - 304.
Mitchell, C & A Smith 2001. Changing the Picture: Youth, HIV/AIDS
and Prevention Campaigns in South Africa. Canadian Woman
Studies/ les Cahiers de la femme 21,2: 57 - 61.
PMG, Parliamentary Monitoring Group 2010. Minutes of Meeting
dated 18 May 2012. Available at: www.pmg.org.za/report/
20100519). (Accessed 8 May 2012.)
Painter, TM 2001. Voluntary Counselling and Testing for Couples: A
High-leverage Intervention for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Sub-
Saharan Africa. Social Science & Medicine 53:1397 - 1411.
Pick, S, M Givaudan, J Sirkin, I Ortega 2007. Communication as a
Protective Factor: Evaluation of a Life Skills HIV/AIDS Prevention
Program for Mexican Elementary-school Students. AIDS Education
and Prevention 19,5: 408 - 421.
Rojano, R 2005. The Practice of Community Family Therapy. Family
Process 43,1:59 - 78.
Royse, D 2004. Research Methods in Social Work. 4th Edition.
Stamford, Connecticut: Thomson, Brooks, Cole Publishing.
Rubin, A & ER Babbie 2005. Research Methods for Social Work. 5th
Edition. Stamford, Connecticut: Thomson Learning, Inc.
Schiltz, MA & TGM Sandfort 2000. HIV-positive People, Risk and
Sexual Behaviour. Social Science and Medicine 50: 1571 - 1588.
Smith L 2002. Including Cultural and Spiritual Rites and Practices in
Social Work Intervention. Paper presented at the JUC Conference,
September 2002, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Statistics South Africa 2010. Available at: http://www.statssa.gov.za/
publications/P0302/P03022010.pdf. (Accessed 5 September 2011.)
Visser, MJ 2005. Life Skills Training as HIV/AIDS Preventive Strategy
in Secondary Schools: Evaluation of a Large-scale Implementa
tion Process. Journal des Aspects Sociaux du VIH/SIDA 2,1: 203 -
216.
Visser, M, J Schoeman & JJ Perold 2004. Evaluation of HIV/AIDS
Prevention in South African Schools. Journal of Health Psychology
9,2:263 - 280.