Youths are more likely to engage in sexual risky behaviours, such as unsafe sexual practices and substance abuse. Despite this, youths are not considered a health priority because of their lower morbidity and mortality ...

Background: Millennium Development Goal (MDG) number 6, target 6A focuses on halting and reversing the spread of HIV by 2015. South Africa is amongst the 189 countries that are involved in trying to meet the MDGs. In order ...

Voluntary counseling services are seen as a cost-effective strategy for HIV prevention and management because they help people to cope with their illness and reduce infection rates in others. This study explored and described ...

Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is making its toll in South African institutions of higher education. Studies revealed that several students and staff became ill and some died ...

Abstract Background Existing evidence on the association between food insecurity and childhood obesity is mixed. In addition, literature from developing countries in general ...

The central objective of the present research was to provide a better understanding of stereotype threat and its underlying effects on female high school students’ intention to major in Science, Technology, Engineering ...

Despite South Africa’s constitution being demonstrably one of the most progressive in the world, there remains a divide between legislation and women’s lived experiences of violence and inequality. In this context, ...

The present research aimed first at testing the Theory of Planned Behaviour and the extended model of the Theory of Planned Behaviour in a non-WEIRD nation context (i.e., western, educated, industrialized, rich and ...

Witnessing a fellow ingroup member being humiliated might be the most common situation in which intergroup humiliation is experienced. Humiliation on a group level is as complex as humiliation on an interpersonal level ...

English-speakers sometimes say that they feel moved to tears, emotionally touched,stirred,or that something warmed their heart;other languages use similar passive contact metaphors to refer to an affective state. We propose ...