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    An exploration of the effectiveness of community home -based care programmes in mitigating the effects of HIV and AIDS in rural areas in Zimbabwe : the case of Shurugwi district
    (University of Fort Hare, 2014-10) Mangwiro, Vongai Patience
    The aim of the dissertation was to explore the effectiveness of Community Home-based Care programmes in mitigating the effects of HIV and AIDs in rural areas in Zimbabwe in Shurugwi. Triangulation method was used to collect and analyze data from one hundred and sixty four respondents using survey questionnaires and in-depthinterviews. Theoretically, the study was underpinned by the Basic Needs Approach which supports that every human being needs food, shelter and health in order for one to have a meaningful life. The findings of the study showed that CHBC programmes are effective in improving the conditions of the patients and also in mitigating the effects of HIV and AIDS in societies. Nevertheless, the findings show that patients still suffer in the long-run to improve their conditions because of lack of resources and food, shortage of funds and CHBC kits, and donor fatigue. Resultantly, this gives a double burden to all the caregivers when they provide palliative care to patients. Conclusively, more should be done to improve the conditions of the patients because they still face problems in the fight against HIV arid AIDS.
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    The perceptions of the university of Fort Hare students of the inadequate response towards combatting HIV/AIDS by the youth.
    (University of Fort Hare, 2016-06) Mharadze, Runwork
    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.