Abstract:
This report documents a qualitative description of the special needs
expressed by persons with late stage AIDS in the Richards Bay area. A
phenomenological research design and methods were employed to impose
rigour on this event.
Once the needs of persons with late stage AIDS had been made explicit,
these were collated with services rendered or planned through state and
welfare structures in the Richards Bay area in an effort to identify salient
unfulfilled needs that could be addressed through the establishment of an
AIDS Care Centre. This provided important cues regarding the types of
services and facilities required at the AIDS Care Centre. Additionally the
unstructured interviews employed in the research provided the interviewees
with an opportunity to suggest a format of care at the AIDS Care Centre that
would be most suitable for them.
