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HIVAN team in Bangkok
Catherine Jenkin. HIVAN Media Office. June 2004.
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Eleven of HIVAN?’s staff members will be jetting off to Bangkok, Thailand to participate in and present at the XV International AIDS Conference, during July 2004. The staff complement will be participating in the proceedings in a variety of ways: 10 poster presentations, 1 oral presentation, 1 film screening and an NGO booth. Professor Jerry Coovadia, HIVAN?’s Director: BioMedical Sciences, will be attending as a representative of Africa for the general council of the International AIDS Conference.
Jill Kruger, HIVAN?’s Deputy Director: Social and Behavioural Sciences, will be present for a screening of her recent documentary ?“Deadly Myths??” and will be available for a question and answer session after the screening. Bren Brophy, curator of HIVAN?’s successful Artists?’ Action Around AIDS exhibition will be manning the NGO booth which HIVAN has been allocated and presenting a visual arts exhibition, related to Artist' Action Around AIDS. If you are attending the conference, be sure to pass by our booth ?– it is not to be missed.
A number of poster presentations were selected by the Conference Committee for presentation and HIVAN will have a good showing in this department. Nicola Stanley, of the HIVAN Sectoral Networking Team will be presenting three posters ?– the first is her own, and the other two will be presented on behalf of her networking colleagues, Jo-ann Du Plessis and Fathima Abdulla: ?“High Costs Per Individual Client of VCT Programme with Rapid Testing in South Africa?”; ?“Sex Work and HIV Prevention in South Africa ?– How Cost-Efficient is It??”; ?“Challenges to Effective HIV Service Provision: Study Conducted at 26 HIV Prevention Sites in South Africa. Tanja Arntz, HIVAN?’s Campus HIV/AIDS Support Unit Co-ordinator will be presenting on ?“Personalising HIV/AIDS Risk: The Use of Multi-media for First-Year Student Orientation?”. Three of HIVAN?’s Ethnographic Junior Researchers will also be presenting posters at the Conference. Hema Ramduth will present on ?“Deadly Myths? A Phenomenon of Indian Culture and Community with regard to HIV/AIDS?”. Anam Nyembezi will present on ?“Mixed Messages: Traditional Healing and HIV/AIDS in Durban, South Africa?” whilst his colleague, Khumbulani Hlongwana will present on ?“Contexts of Disclosure: An Ethnographic Study of Two AIDS Support Groups in Durban, South Africa?”.
The ?“Community Responses to HIV/AIDS?” component of HIVAN Research will present three posters and one oral presentation. Yugi Nair will present the posters, which focus on ?“Putting Content in ?‘Context?’: The Impact of Social Environments on Youth HIV-Prevention in South Africa?”; ?“The Social Roots of HIV/AIDS Stigma: Implications for Interventions?” and ?“Local Community Responses to AIDS-Care: Implications for the Roll-out of Antiretroviral Drugs for Deep Rural Communities in South Africa?”. Sbongile Maimane, one of the fieldworkers, won a scholarship to the XV International AIDS Conference and will be giving an oral presentation on ?“The Role of Volunteer Community Health Workers in a Rural Setting?”. We are very proud of her and wish her all the best. Xoliswa Keke, another member of HIVAN?’s Social Science Research team, also won a scholarship to the Conference. |
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