“South Africa is in the middle of a well-documented HIV/AIDS epidemic. Infection rates were calculated to be 22% of the adult
population in 2003. A number of different reasons have been advanced to explain the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa.
They include poverty and economic marginalization; differing strains of
HIV; and high rates of sexually transmitted diseases. However, migration patterns in Southern Africa have also been identified as one of the keys to understanding the high rates of infection in the region. Male
migrants have been the focus of research on the relationship between HIV and migration. In the same way that the vulnerabilities of migrant women to HIV have thus far largely remained unexplored, the lives of migrant women have also received far less attention than the lives of their male counterparts.”
