We obtained Ethical approval (10/09/29) from the University of
Western Cape Senate Research and Ethics Committee and
acquired informed consent for all FGDs and interviews. To
preserve anonymity, codes were used to identify individuals in
FGDs and in-depth interviews. For the in-depth interviews, the
code denotes the participant’s identification letters, the HIV
status and age in years. For the FGDs, the code denotes the
category of the group, the number, the identification letter for
the individual in the group and the age in years. For the
teenage mothers, their HIV status was used to identify the
group.