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Table 1 Selected figures from the Khayelitsha Select Panel Survey, N = 216

From: The ARV roll out and the disability grant: a South African dilemma?

  n Percent
Unemployed 108 50
Receivers of disability grant 90 42
Respondents who had experienced losing the disability grant 90 42
Respondents who had stopped taking ARVs 6 3
Respondents who said they would stop taking ARVs in order to get sick so they might qualify for the disability grant again 0 0
Respondents who agreed that it is a common strategy for HIV-positive people to stop taking ARVs to get sick and qualify again for the disability grant 21 10
Households that received one or more social grant (all kinds of grants) 153 71
  1. Source: Khayelitsha Select Panel Survey 2007 (KSPS)
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