Chimunhu, Jephias2026-02-162026-02-162009-11Chimunhu,J.Adolescents' perceptions of the relevance of barriers to voluntary councelling andtesting(VCT): A rural Eastern Cape High School Study.Alice.University of Fort Hare.http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11837/3715Masters ThesisRural Eastern Cape has been noted as recording counter statistics to the national South African HIV and AIDS prevalence levelling off. The role of Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) as a major preventive programme and the perceived barriers that would prevent rural adolescents from using it were explored at a high school in the Eastern Cape (N=l 78). About 20, 8% of the adolescent respondents in grade 10, 11 and 12 self reported that they had been tested while 79, 2% had not been tested and 55, 1 % reported that they had never heard of VCT before.enSOCIAL SCIENCES::Statistics, computer and systems science::StatisticsSOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::PsychologyThesis