This is a research-based article outlining how HIV/AIDS affects men’s and
women’s adjustment to positive living. It explores issues of challenge,
survival and sexuality and offers culturally appropriate and sensitive life
skills that may be adopted in schools, families and communities. Life skills
education for risk reduction and living positively with HIV and AIDS needs
to be carefully planned and executed, or else it runs the risk of increasing risk
taking behaviour (Visser 2005), an important consideration that this article
heeds
