Table 12 Sociocultural domain

1: Being financially stable will enable a person to afford better healthcare services (private healthcare system), food and transport

o “Because remember that you need to eat specific food…you can’t eat foods that has fat, maybe it’s a diet that is strict, you need to eat certain foods, obviously if you don’t have money, it won’t be possible… I’m not able to get the things that I want and the food as I mentioned earlier that “if I had money, I would be able to buy those pills when they say they can help”- FGD 2

o “Mam V maybe was able to get help because she went to like, private doctors, I just don’t know how if and how far public would help her because of our hospitals don’t ever have equipment”- FGD 5

o “…everything is expensive and then, these people, like, when you go to the privates, and cancer mostly is treated in the western way, you understand…and it’s as if the western way is what deals with it best, though we still drink our mixtures, so, people who have medical aids, obvious, you will go to Landmet (Lancet laboratories) and go wherever…”- FGD 6

2: Money won’t save a person from dying from cancer

o “Having money, no, it won’t help you”- FGD 3, 6

o “When it has eaten you, you go, you will leave that money behind.” FGD 3