The practical strategies used by religious organisations in dealing with issues related to HIV/AIDS : based on a survey conducted in greater Pietermaritzburg.
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2001
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Abstract
This study seeks to investigate the practical strategies used by religious organisations in dealing with issues related to HIV/AIDS in Greater
Pietermaritzburg. The study comes from the assumption that all religious
organisations tend to structure and restructure themselves as a means of
responding to and intervening in the problems of society. The study therefore
argues that intervention in HIV/AIDS issues is one of the conditions through
which restructuring of religious organisation in Greater Pietermaritzburg is
currently evident. By way of conclusion then, the study attempts to answer the question as to what extent such interventions are sustainable. The interventions are sustainable in that they are, by and large, undertaken by the grassroots people who are directly affected and infected by HIV/AIDS. However, the interventions are often very variable, ad hoc and haphazard. Thus the study concludes that questions about the sustainability of such interventions still give unclear answers.
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Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2001
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AIDS (Disease)--South Africa--Religious aspects., AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--South Africa., Religion and social problems--South Africa., Theses--Sociology.