ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the historic and geographic trajectory of the HIV/AIDS crisis into and in South Africa. The HIV/AIDS situation in South Africa is serious. The May 2007 xenophobic attacks that crises crossed South Africa included hints at internecine strife. Predominantly foreigners were attacked, and a National Intelligence Agency member alleged the role of a 'third force' in provoking the violence. The history of the HI-virus is complex, and coincides with changes in human history. The first cases of HIV were white homosexual men and hemophiliacs who received blood, as well as others who had had blood transfusions. Professor Sher recounts how in black, African culture, distorted by the apartheid regime's Bantustan or native homeland policies coupled with coercive labor migration where he works. Biological and social factors include the vulnerability of women's vaginas to infection, the non-visibility of the initial infection, and increasing mobility, which is conducive to wider transmission.
