“…First, given that social workers play a crucial role in delivering interventions to PLHIV/AIDS, how can we explain the low HIV-KQ-18 median scores, noted above, which indicate borderline low levels of knowledge about the disease (Kaplan et al, 2004; Linsk, 2011)? Part of the answer may lie in the normalisation of the disease: it is possible that an excessive confidence in HIV/AIDS prevention has led to a perceived lesser need to teach knowledge about the disease and the challenges faced by PLHIV/AIDS within existing curricula (Dubois-Arber et al, 2001). Such gaps in education and training may have highly deleterious effects on interventions delivered by future social workers, since the lack of knowledge and awareness of the realities of the disease frequently results in practices that stigmatise PLHIV/AIDS (Davtyan et al, 2017; Labra and Thomas, 2017).…”