摘要：This article will focus on a profile of adolescents’ households infected with, or affected by, HIV and AIDS. A comprehensive needs assessment by way of a structured schedule was completed by means of in-depth interviewing. Interviews were conducted with 169 households in two provinces of South Africa and included two black ethnic groups and a coloured group. To draw up the profile issues such as demographic data, number of members of households, main caregiver, child-headed household, school attendance, health and wellbeing, employment, receiving of grants, total household income, death of parents and family members, and bereavement counselling were covered.
