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HAICU makes its presence felt at conference29 November 2012
Leading the way: From left, HAICU's Cal Volks, Lucina Reddy, Zaaida Vallie, Sianne Abrahams and Stella Kyobula-Mukoza at the HEAIDS conference.
Higher Education HIV/AIDS Programme (HEAIDS), a division of Higher Education South Africa (HESA), is holding a conference at UCT, titled Researching the Applied and Applying the Research, which runs from 28 to 30 November.
UCT's HIV/AIDS Institutional Co-ordination Unit (HAICU) is responsible for co-ordinating the UCT policy, curriculum and co-curriculum response, and has had a number of papers accepted by peer review on several relevant topics. HAICU staff will be presenting these papers at the conference.
Director Cal Volks is talking on why HIV/AIDS should be addressed at a university under the transformation portfolio, as it is at UCT. Volks has been conducting research with students living with HIV at UCT, and exploring whether their experience of the UCT environment is an inclusive one.
Lucina Reddy, project officer at HAICU, is presenting on a curriculum project executed with Fabian Saptouw of UCT's Michaelis School of Fine Art and HAICU's Cal Volks. Data on UCT students' perceptions and behaviour around sexual concurrency and HIV risk informed the art installations, produced by UCT art students, for a co-curricula awareness event on the campus in August this year.
In turn, Stella Kyobula-Mukoza, also a project officer at HAICU, is presenting an evaluation of the UCT HIV Testing Drive, with Cal Volks and Lucina Reddy.  Evaluation is a crucial element as HIV/AIDS funding has been cut across the board.

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Higher education's HIV and AIDS programmes get the third degree 30 November 2012
Thought leaders: UCT's Cal Volks has edited a special issue of the AIDS Review series, focusing on the role the higher education can play in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
A special issue of the widely known AIDS Review series is taking a long, hard look at the role that higher education, and its HIV and AIDS programmes, can play in combating the pandemic.
Launched at the Researching the Applied and Applying the Research conference, hosted by the Higher Education HIV/AIDS Programme (HEAIDS), a division of Higher Education South Africa, or HESA, at UCT from 28 to 30 November, the issue is titled Third Degree. It is edited by Cal Volks, director of UCT's HIV/AIDS Institutional Co-ordination Unit.
The responses by higher education to HIV and AIDS are significant because of the role such institutions play in creating and disseminating knowledge, and because of their contribution to developing the country's human resources, says Volks.
While many broad policy frameworks have been in place at institutions for a few years, in some cases not enough implementation is occurring, she notes.
"More of a specific focus may be required around determining the institutional barriers to higher education HIV/AIDS policy implementation," she added.
AIDS Review is produced by the Centre for the Study of AIDS (CAS) at the University of Pretoria, and is edited by CAS director, Mary Crewe. Volks quotes Crewe when she says their motivation for bringing out the special edition was to encourage higher education's responses to HIV and AIDS to be "challenging, critical, controversial, and informed".
The edition also has contributions from Professor Relebohile Moletsane of the University of KwaZulu-Natal(his article grew out of a presentation he made at the HAICU 2011 Narratives and Nostalgia in HIV and AIDS and Transformation Education Colloquium on the role of culture and cultural nostalgia in HIV/AIDS peer education) and from Professor Sylvia Tamale of Makerere University. The University of Pretoria's Pierre Brouard also contributed a thought-provoking piece about how institutional integrity can influence responses to HIV and AIDS.

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Curriculum Vitae:  Ms. Cal Volks

QUALIFICATIONS and COURSES:

2014: International Infertility Counsellors Organisation meeting Munich
2013: Europeans Society of Reproductive Health (ESHRE) presentation of poster on    Qualitative Experiences of HIV and Infertility.
2012: Infertility Counselling Supervised Practicum (UCT).
2011: British Infertility Counselling Association Counselling Course, UK.

2003: Health Promotion module -part of Masters in Health Systems Management

             London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U.K.

1993: MA (Rhodes University, South Africa)

1999: Psychology Honours [Community Psychology, Public Health,  

          Research and Evaluation] (UNISA)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

2001 - Current: Director HIV/AIDS Co-ordination UCT – HAICU;
                     Infertility & HV Counsellor

Skills: HIV/AIDS & Infertility Counselling; Research; Communications Campaigns;

             Project  Leadership Management.

PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS:

2014

- Kyobula-Mukoza, Volks, Reddy, L. Investigating the quality of HIV testing and counselling of a PEPFAR funded organization in relation to a non-PEPFAR funded organization.Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery. 2014. Vol 16. Issue 1. 116-129.
- ( Journal Article accepted for book to be printed 2015). " Where's the baby?" Inter-sex-tions between 2 stigmatised condistions. Qualitative research with HIV- sero-discordant and Infertile couples presenting at a clinic in Cape Town".(co authored with Alison Swartz) Oxford University Anthropolgy Fertility group.

-     Awarded SASH grant UCT and Brown University with 3 colleagues for (Research In progress) on "Outcomes of an HIV/AIDS Gender Based violence bystander  intervention Peer Education programme at the University of Cape Town".

-    (Journal Article in Peer Review). Outcomes of striving to build an AIDS Competent Community at 2 schools in Khayelitsha. Part of a Special Issue SAJHE on the relationship  
between SA Universities and Schools.

- "Are They Really Born Free?" Poster presentation at the International AIDS Conference, Melbourne July 2014. 

- Book. Volks, C. ( HAICU). Are They Really Born Free? : Assessing and Addressing experiences of stigma and the intersection of discrimination around race, language, class, gender and sexual orientation in HIV positive students at the University of Cape Town in 2006 and 2012.

- 3 Presentations at Colloquium on Reconciliation and Intergenerational Trauma in Higher Education Institutions Feb. 2014.

         - Intergenerational Trauma. The Schonwald Case Study

       - Outcomes of a Curriculum Intervention to teach Cape Town Genocide and Holocaust   Centre staff and Facilitators the Schonwald case Study.

         -  Are They Really Born Free? : Assessing and Addressing experiences of stigma and the intersection of discrimination around race, language, class, gender, sexual orientation and intergenerational trauma in HIV positive students at the University of Cape Town in 2006 and 2012.

-Presentation for the Cape Town Adolescents Psychotherapy Society on the Ethics of Gamete Donation in South Africa.

-Presentation for the Infertility Awareness Association South Africa on An Overview of Infertility Counselling.

-Presentation for the Cape Town Embryologists and Infertility Nurses CPD seminar on a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Tool for use in the pregnancy waiting period.

-Co-Developer of  Teaching Curriculum for visiting Johns Hopkins students on  Public Health, HIV/AIDS and South Africa. 


2013   

 

    -  " Inter-sex-tions between 2 stigmatised condistions. Qualitative research with HIV- sero- discordant and Infertile couples presenting at a clinic in Cape Town".

         -  Research presentation. ESHRE Conference. London. July 2013.

         - Research Presentation Cape Town Embryologists monthly meeting June 2013.

         -  Research Presentation. University of Cape Town Intersections Disability Unit colloquium.

         

2012  

 

-     Research Paper Presented. Conference on Engaging The Other. Intergenerational Trauma.  mpathic Repair with 3rd Generation Holocaust Survivors and Bystanders.Dec. 2012. 

-    Session Chair, Session Convenor and Speaker: HIV/AIDS Stigma as an issue of Inclusivity. Higher Education  Against AIDS National Conference 29 and 30 November 2012.

-     "I felt disgusted at what he felt to be OK". UCT First Year Art Students Depictions of
      Tensions between Constructs of Desire among UCT Students.  with Lucina Reddy and Fabian Sapatouw. Research Presentation. Higher Education Against AIDS National Conference 29 and 30 November 2012

 

-     Book Editor and Published Paper Author. HIV/AIDS and Higher Education: Are We Asking the Correct  Questions? Special Issue of AIDS Review.  The Centre for The Study of AIDS  Pretoria. Nov.2012

 -     "Disclosing Donor Insemination: What can South Africa Learn from 
        Other Countries?". Presentation to Cape Town Continuing Professional
         Development Group  Meeting of Reproductive Embryologists. July 2012.

 

-      “There’s This Thing with Men: They Want to have More than 1 Sexual Partner”. Gender  Identities as experienced by Peer Educators and the Recipients of their Education at the University of Cape Town. Research Presentation of  Paper at Freie University Institute for Ethnology Social and Cultural Anthropology Department. May 2012.

 

-     “Finding Reconciliation as a Third Generation Descendant of Jewish Germans who fled the Holocaust”  Essay for the Cape Town Holocaust Centre. May 2012.

2011

-     Programme Presentation. SAHARA conference satellite session around Higher Education and
      HIV/AIDS. November 2011, Port Elizabeth. "Using Communication as a core strategy in  Higher Education Responses to HIV/AIDS".

-     Narratives & Nostalgia in HIV Education & Transformation Colloquium. University of
      CapeTown. Keynote Speaker. Sep. 2011.

-     Introduction and Chair of Session on Youth and HIV/AIDS. 5th South African HIV/AIDS AIDS Conference. June 2011.

-     “Its OK if They’re in Different Area Codes”: Sexual Concurrency among University of Cape  Town students. Poster presentation. 5th South African HIV/AIDS AIDS Conference. June  2011. Co-authored with Lucina Reddy

2010

-     Research Presentation. Evaluation of 3 Anti-HIV Stigma Activities conducted at the University of  Cape Town in  2006,2007 and 2008. Higher Education Against AIDS Conference March  2010 Johannesburg.

 

-     Research Presentation of data from a pilot programme to integrate HIV and AIDS in the Science and Engineering  Faculties at the University of Cape Town presented to a meeting of the Deans of the UCT Faculties. June 2010 with Dena Lomofsky.

-  Programme Presentation. The University of Cape Town responds to the National HIV/AIDS Prevalence Research  Survey. Colloquium around HIV Prevalence at Higher Education Institutions. University of  Cape Town. Oct. 2010.

2009
- Qualitative KAPB research design, conducting, and reporting around HIV risk behaviour, stigma and gender with 600 UCT residence students generalizable to the UCT residence  using a Mixed Method Approach. HAICU in Collaboration with Southern Hemisphere.

2008
 

   –      Research Presentation “Equal but Separate” A Qualitative analysis of the 
          relationship between experiences of  HIV discrimination and disclosure among
          University of Cape Town HIV Positive students. Presented at the 12^th 
          International AIDS Conference in Mexico. June 2008.

 

2007

-   Birth of my Second Child. Maternity Leave.
-   Research presentation“ Experiences of UCT students living with HIV” Speaker at the University of Cape Town. UCT Colloquium on HIV Stigma. 

2006

-     An HIV/AIDS Peer Education Programme: A health promotion strategy for the University of Cape Town.  Programme Presentation for UCT Senior Leadership. Re-organization of UCT HIV Unit as HAICU and development of 5 permanent posts. Development of research proposal and research on UCT students living with HIV.

 

2005 - Birth of my First Child. Maternity Leave.

 

2004

-    “The Role of Tertiary Education Institutions in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in AIDS and South Africa”  Published Chapter in The Social Expression of a Pandemic, Ed. Kauffman and Lindauer.  pp.161 -175.

2003

- Awarded programme grants from Elton John HIV Foundation; Mercury Phoenix and 46664 and Merck New York (ongoing until 2006).
 

2002

-     “The Role of Tertiary Education Institutions in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in AIDS and South  Africa”. Programme Presentation at Wellesley College Conference around AIDS in South Africa. April  2002.

 

-     Video link up with People Living With HIV in South Africa from Wellesley College, Boston Conference  together with Jeffrey Sachs.

2001 - Mellon Award. Restructuring HIV Unit. 5 contract posts.

AWARDS:

2014 and 2012    Erasmus Mundus scholarship to lecture and attend at Freie University, Berlin.

2014    SASH grant Fellowship award

2011    Awarded National Research Fund Scholarship (I was not able to take this up due to
             full time employment).

03-10   Received a grants from The Elton John HIV/AIDS Foundation; MERCK New York;
             Mercury Phoenix ; Engenderhealth; EU DOE and HEAIDS grant.

2002   Received South African Health Dept. Beyond Awareness Best Practice award for 
            UCT response to HIV/AIDS in Western Cape.

2001    Selected for Mellon Foundation sponsored course for Women Leaders in Higher
              Education Boston, SA; 

1999-    Awarded 2 Rotary Foundation USA Scholarships 

2000

1991 and 1992 Awarded Raymond Pullen Bursary for Masters Degree Rhodes University

1989 Awarded Mattie Shuttleworth Prize Rhodes Unuversity