 | Research project |
Capacity building for research on HIV stigma
| Status : | Completed |
| Project leader : |
Simbayi, Leickness (Prof L.C.) |
| Other team members : |
De Kock, Cilna (Ms C.J.) Simbayi, Leickness (Prof L.C.) Shean, Yolande (Ms Y.L.) Reddy, Vasu (Prof V.) |
| Responsible department : |
HIV/AIDS, STIs and TB
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| Other department(s) involved : |
Enterprise Risk Management
Office of the CEO International Liaison Board Secreteriat HSRC Press Corporate Communication DCEO Research DCEO Ops and CE Impact Assessment |
| Research output(s) : |
Airhihenbuwa, C.O., Shisana, O., Zungu, N., BeLue, R., Makofani, D.M., Shefer, T., Smith, E. & Simbayi, L. (2011) Research capacity building: a US-South African partnership. Global Health Promotion. 18(2):27-35. |
Project summary
The overall goal of the project is to strengthen infrastructure and to build capacity at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in developing and sustaining cultural and gender-based interventions that could contribute to the elimination of stigma associated with HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and support.
This partnership project has five specific aims, namely:
- To establish, over five years, a training program at UWC for ten South African faculty researchers and 40 South African graduate students. This training partnership will focus on research into culture and gender-based HIV/AIDS interventions, and on issues of HIV/AIDS stigmatisation.
- To strengthen the capacity of four faculty researchers to mentor five graduate student trainees each year in conducting exploratory research on HIV/AIDS stigmatisation.
- To develop a network of researchers at UWC that will be extended to other historically black universities in South Africa.
- To facilitate partnership with other researchers at other academic and medical faculties.
- To convene an annual workshop to share lessons learned and to develop new research proposals.