South Africa’s HIV/AIDS pandemic is considered to be the largest in the world, with more than 5 million South Africans living with the disease. (Du Plessis, Bean, Schoeman, & Botha, 2011)
In the early 2000s, the unprecedented rise of this disease was placing a heavy burden on South Africa’s already limited health resources, and as a result, Home and Community Based Care (HBC) services became an important aspect of the country’s health care. Now called Community Care Workers (CCWs), these dedicated people (mostly women but with a growing number of men beginning to do the work as well) work selflessly with very little support or remuneration.
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