Summary of the Study Problem and Methodology

HIV/AIDS has spread hard and fast in Africa over the past two decades, over seventy percent of all new HIV infections take place in Africa (UNAIDS, 2003). Sub-Saharan Africa has been especially affected, where several countries, such as Botswana, Malawi and Swaziland, have reached adult prevalence rates of 20% and over. As the disease is increasingly impacting on the social, economic, cultural and even political fabric of these countries, urgent efforts are being made to mobilize all possible resources – human, economic, and otherwise – to halt the spread of the disease (IBRD/World Bank, 2000).