- Title
- The perceptions of the University of Fort Hare students of the inadequate response towards combatting HIV/AIDS by the youth
- Creator
- Mharadze, Runwork https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5916-7863
- Subject
- Universities and colleges -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- AIDS (Disease) -- Treatment
- Date Issued
- 2016-06
- Date
- 2016-06
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/29245
- Identifier
- vital:77617
- Description
- The research aimed at exploring the perceptions of the University of the Fort Hare students of the inadequate response towards combatting HIV/AIDS by the youth, Alice campus. The study intended to achieve the following objectives: (i) to establish the behavior challenges making the youths of the institutions of Higher Learning vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. (ii) To determine the knowledge levels among the UFH youths concerning HIV/AIDS. (iii) To cross-examine the UFH student’s attitudes and feelings towards an inadequate behavior response to HIV/AIDS by the youths in South Africa. The researcher sieved the literature reviewed in the study from several researchers, and the structural functionalist theory molded the study. The following assumptions stimulated the development of the study: (i) the youths at the UFH face behavioral factors making them vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. (ii) The inadequate behavior response among the UFH students towards combating HIV/AIDS reviews their underutilization of the available institutional HIV/AIDS support structures. The following hypotheses guided the study: (i) if the knowledge levels of students are not enough concerning HIV/AIDS, and then the noticeable higher degree of a lack of expertise, lack of professionalism, and lack of innovativeness among the caregivers to motivate students to visit the university HIV/AIDS health support structures are the prevailing menace. (ii) If the knowledge levels of students are enough concerning HIV/AIDS, and then the noticeable higher degree of expertise, professionalism, and of innovativeness among the caregivers motivating students to visit the university HIV/AIDS health support structures are a reassurance. Methodologically, the researcher triangulated both the qualitative and the quantitative research methods. The study espoused both qualitative and quantitative research designs, where a case study was used to achieve the qualitative aspects of the study and a mini survey was used to achieve the quantitative aspects of the study. Quantitatively, the researcher used a questionnaire as the data collection instrument and the investigator used focus group discussions, key informants, in-depth interviews, and secondary data sources to gather qualitative data.The study used probability and non-probability sampling methods. The researcher used purposive sampling technique specifically for qualitative data to select a sample of sixteen (16) participant. Concurrently, the researcher used systematic random sampling for the quantitative data to select a sample of thirty-four (34) participants. Qualitatively, the investigator analyzed data using the content thematic data analysis using the interpretive approaches and textual presentation, while Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) analyzed the quantitative statistical data.The study ascertained the following findings: the youths were at a huge risk of behavioral factors; the knowledge levels of students are enough with regards to HIV/AIDS; the available support structures were underutilized; a noticeable higher degree of a lack of expertise; the growing lack of confidence in the institutional HIV/AIDS management. The study made the following recommendations. There is need for mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into the university curriculum; university infrastructure to be HIV/AIDS friendly; gender mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS; creating HIV/AIDS youth friendly support structures; use of indigenous HIV/AIDS knowledge and foreign-based HIV/AIDS knowledge; employing professional social workers in the HIV/AIDS unit; and the provision of physical and emotional support. Lastly, the study concluded that more awareness campaigns on the drivers of the epidemic and their ramifications could possibly go a long way in expediting the youth’s inadequate behavior response to HIV/AIDS. More so, the need for further research on youth’s vulnerability is central.
- Description
- Thesis (MSoc.Sci.) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2016
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (xvii, 147 leaves)
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Language
- English
- Rights
- rights holder
- Rights
- All Rights Reserved
- Rights
- Open Access
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