The human immunodeficiency virus (AIDS) and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) have profoundly affected every aspect of the public health sector. The possibility of HIV transmission in the oral health care setting is very rare. Nonetheless, the oral health care environment has become a helpful setting for early detection, as most lesions of HIV infection present orally during the first stages of the disease. Willingness to treat patients with HIV/AIDS appears to be related to knowledge of the disease process, its oral manifestations and modes of transmission, thus influencing health workers' attitudes and behaviour towards management of HIV/AIDS patients. This study assessed the level of management of HIV/AIDS patients amongst dental and oral hygiene students at the University of the Western Cape Dental faculty. Student's knowledge of HIV/AIDS, their behaviour and attitude in treating HIV/AIDS patients, the precautionary measures practiced and their perceptions of curriculum preparation on HIV/AIDS were assessed. Data were collected by means of a self- administered questionnaire. The results indicated that students' knowledge on HIV/AIDS generally increased as they progressed throughout their curriculum but their utilization of all barrier techniques for infection control and clinical protocol, lacked consistency and compliance. Given the fact that the possibility of transmission of HIV/AIDS does exist within the dental setting, it is important that supervisors reinforce universal precautions. Clinical application of these precautions has a direct impact on the spread of the disease.

The need to stimulate entrepreneurial skills in graduates as a strategy for tackling graduate unemployment has spurred the introduction of entrepreneurship education programs. The effectiveness of such entrepreneurship education programs from an African context is the focus of this paper. A modified model for evaluating the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education was derived from Fayolle, Gaily, and Lassa-Clerc; and was tested via structural equation modeling. Data were collected from randomly selected 750 participants who had undergone at least one compulsory entrepreneurship module at the university level. It was found that entrepreneurship education which is not well aligned with contextual peculiarities may not optimally yield the desired outcome. This paper, therefore, underscores the need for a thoroughly contextualized curriculum that encapsulates national, local, and very importantly, institutional factors. RÉSUMÉLa n ecessit e de stimuler les comp etences entrepreneuriales parmi les diplôm es, en tant que strat egie pour aborder le chômage des diplôm es, a stimul e l'introduction de programmes de formation a l'entrepreneuriat. Cet article se concentre sur l'efficacit e de tels programmes dans un contexte africain. Un mod ele modifi e d' evaluation de l'efficacit e de l' education a l'entrepreneuriat a et e d eriv e des travaux de Fayolle, Gaily et Lassa-Clerc; et a et e test e par mod elisation d' equation structurelle. Les donn ees ont et e collect ees aupr es de 750 participants s electionn es au hasard qui avaient suivi au moins un module obligatoire sur l'entrepreneuriat au niveau universitaire. L' etude montre que la formation a l'entrepreneuriat qui n'est pas bien adapt ee aux particularit es contextuelles peut ne pas compl etement donner le r esultat escompt e. Par cons equent, cet article souligne la n ecessit e d'un programme d' etudes contextualis e qui englobe les facteurs nationaux, locaux et, non moins importants, institutionnels.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; tab-stops: 1.0in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang;" lang="EN-ZA">Capital budgeting is one of the most important areas of financial management. There are several techniques commonly used to evaluate capital budgeting projects</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-ZA"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang;" lang="EN-ZA">namely the payback period, accounting rate of return, present value and internal rate of return and profitability index</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-ZA">.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang;" lang="EN-ZA"> Recent studies highlight that financial managers worldwide favor methods such as the internal rate of return (IRR) or non-discounted payback period (PP) models over the net present value (NPV), which is the model academics consider superior.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-ZA"> In particular this research focused on small, medium and large businesses and investigated a number of variables and associations relating to capital budgeting practices in businesses in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The results revealed that payback period, followed by net present value, appears to be the most used method across the different sizes and sectors of business. It was also found that 64% of businesses surveyed used only one technique, while 32% of the respondents used between two to three different types of techniques to evaluate capital budgeting decisions. The findings show that the more complicated methods such as IRR and NPV are most favored by the large businesses as compared to the small businesses. The majority of the respondents believed that project definition was the most important stage in the capital budgeting process. Implementation stage appeared to be the most difficult stage for the manufacturing sector whereas Project definition, Analysis and selection and Implementation were generally rated as being the difficult stages by the retail sector. Project definition and Analysis and selection </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">were found to be the most difficult stages by the service sector.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-ZA"> Most businesses used the cost of bank loan as a basis in capital budgeting and</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB"> more than two thirds of respondents used non-quantitative techniques to consider risk when making a decision on investing in fixed assets. </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-ZA"></span></p>

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