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The place of African animal ethics within the welfarist and rightist debate : An interrogation of Akan ontological and ethical beliefs towards animals and the environment.
(2020)
Scholars in the field of environmental and animal ethics have propounded theories that outline what, in their view, ought to constitute an ethical relationship between human and the environment and humans and nonhuman ...
Transactional sex and its gendered nature amongst a student population.
(2020)
Women between 15 to 24 years of age carry twice the risk of acquiring HIV in comparison to their male counterparts, and a growing body of epidemiological knowledge suggests that the practice of transactional sex (TS) could ...
Exploring challenges to safe sex for men in long-term relationships living in KwaZulu-Natal who have sex with both men and women.
(2020)
Numerous research studies continue to show that HIV/AIDS is still a burden in South Africa. Although in recent years there have been breakthroughs in biomedical research, leading to the development and improvement of HIV ...
Challenges in the process of HIV/AIDS disclosure: Perspectives of HIV positive students in a South African university.
(2020)
From the moment individuals are diagnosed as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive, they are overwhelmed with various emotions. People living with HIV who have recently been diagnosed will usually search for comfort ...
The local knowledge of transactional sex in a sample of tertiary education students in KwaZulu-Natal.
(2020)
Background: Transactional sex has been cited in considerable public health literature in
terms of its critical role in HIV and STI transmission (Stoebenau et al., 2011). Much of this
literature has focused on women’s ...
Rethinking the practice of community engagement in health research: the case of the tenofovir trials in Cambodia and Cameroon.
(2020)
Recent developments in the governance of research have recognised the part that communities can and should play in emergent and inventive research. It is now widely agreed that community engagement is essential in certain ...
An evaluation of ethical concerns raised by a Ugandan Research Ethics Committee using the principles and benchmarks proposed by Emanuel et al. (2008).
(2020)
Research Ethics Committees (RECs) serve several important public functions, including ensuring that research participants are protected in addition to provision of a public forum for the accountability of researchers. As ...
Young mothers’ experiences of stigma in early and unintended pregnancy (EUP).
(2020)
This research explored young mothers’ experiences of stigma in early and unintended pregnancy (EUP) in a localised South African context. It explored the impact of social judgement on the emotional coping, and identities ...
The politicisation of election litigation in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic.
(2020)
Since the early 1990s, the third wave of democratisation has permeated the polity of almost all the African states as authoritarian regimes are replaced with democratic governments through the ballot process. Therefore, ...
Knowledge sharing practices in public libraries: a case study of eThekwini Municipal Libraries (EML)
(2020)
In the information age, knowledge is predominantly seen as one of the most important assets in both private and public organisations and should therefore be managed carefully.
The aim of the study was to investigate the ...