The higher rates of HIV prevalence can be explained by the reduced immunity to the infection due to individuals who have been previously infected by multiple factors such as stress, repeated infections, malnutrition and most importantly, poverty (Phatlane, 2003). Individuals living in poverty are …show more content…
The apartheid was a system that was formalized by The National Party of South Africa in 1948. The National Party believed peaceful coexistence could only be preserved through racial segregation; specifically, this would prevent whites being dominated by blacks, who made up 80 percent of the population in South Africa (Price, 1986). Two policies called ‘influx control’ and ‘resettlement’ supplemented the segregation by “non-white settlement in [designated] white and particularly in urban areas” (Susser and Cherry, 1982). This was augmented by resettlement policies, which sanctioned the “mass removal of non-white communities from areas designated for whites” (Susser and Cherry, 1982). Much like the Indigenous populations being displaced to rural regions of Canada, the Africans were displaced to rural regions referred to as