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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