ABSTRACT
In April 2001, I was beginning research on HIV support, based in Cape Town. I got in touch with a few interviewees who travelled, in several buses or taxis, from townships to the leafy suburban campus, to sit in front of my tape recorder. These interviewees usually had little support for living with HIV. They believed and accepted their HIV positive status, but they knew few with whom they could talk about their status, even within their families, and sometimes belief and acceptance were hard to maintain.
