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There has been little documentation of the scope and scale of local-level responses to HIV/AIDS in South Africa, although it is apparent that across cities, towns, villages and isolated rural homesteads there have been growing efforts to mount responses to the epidemic. Individuals, informal associations, civil society organisations, businesses and some government departments are supporting or promoting local efforts to address the spread and impact of the epidemic at local level.In this chapter we review the role of local-level responses in HIV prevention and AIDS responses in South Africa and how these might be optimised. We examine the significance of ‘locality’ in HIV/AIDS responses, and two main ways in which local responses to HIV/AIDS have been promoted in South Africa: through civil society initiatives and local government. We make a case for a locality-based approach to HIV/AIDS and then develop an overview of the state of local-level responses.
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These four categories were used in the two national HSRC-led national HIV surveys.
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Kelly, K., van Donk, M. (2009). Local-Level Responses to HIV/AIDS in South Africa. In: Rohleder, P., Swartz, L., Kalichman, S., Simbayi, L. (eds) HIV/AIDS in South Africa 25 Years On. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0306-8_10
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