Meaning-making of a group of South Africans in their experience of living with HIV: a phenomenological study

H G Pretorius, N Goldstein, A D Stuart

Abstract


With the primary focus of disease specific studies on the medical and biological transmission and progression of HIV/AIDS, the lived experience and meaning-making of individuals who live with this disease, is a literary scarcity.

Opsomming
Met die primêre fokus van siektespesifieke studies op die mediese en ook biologiese oordrag en progressie van MIV/VIGS, is daar ‘n literêre skaarste oor die geleefde ondervinding en betekenisgewing van individue wat met hierdie siekte leef.

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