An Evaluation of the Attitudes and Understanding of HIV/AIDS that Underpins the Decision to Comply Or Not Comply with Prenatal HIV/AIDS Testing

An Evaluation of the Attitudes and Understanding of HIV/AIDS that Underpins the Decision to Comply Or Not Comply with Prenatal HIV/AIDS Testing PDF Author: Motlatsi Queen Kenana
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Category : AIDS (Disease) in pregnancy
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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This study aimed to explore the attitudes to HIV testing among a group of black, low socio-economic status pregnant women from Gugulethu, South Africa. The key research interest was to evaluate the attitudes and understandings of HIV/AIDS that underpin the decision to comply or not comply with prenatal HIV testing. Theories of health behaviour concur that the extent to which an individual will engage in a given health behaviour, such as HIV test compliance, will be a function of the extent to which a person believes she is personally susceptible to the particular illness and her evaluation of the severity of the consequences of contracting the disease.