As stated in Chapter 1, this study aimed at identifying factors that impact on teachers’
willingness to communicate about HIV/AIDS. Willingness to communicate about HIV/AIDS has
been operationalized using multiple measures in terms of three distinct behaviors, namely: future
intention to talk about HIV/AIDS, past behavior of talking about HIV/AIDS in schools, and past
behavior of talking about HIV/AIDS in the community. This chapter starts with a summary of the
characteristics of the respondents and of the data collected. This discussion is followed by a
detailed presentation of results relating to each of the six hypotheses in turn. Each hypothesis
focuses on the three types of behavior identified (future intentions, past school behavior, and past
community behavior). A summary of the main findings follows each hypothesis. In addition and
where relevant, selected findings from the personal interviews with teachers are used to inform
and contrast the findings for some of the hypotheses. The final section of the chapter provides an
overview of incidental findings relating to attitude functions.