African Universities Responding to HIV/AIDS |
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Programme Activities |
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Programme Activities
· Advocacy through COREVIP, General Conference, Executive Board and funding partners
· Funding to member institutions to develop institution-specific HIV/AIDS policies
· Support to institutions to integrate HIV/AIDS into University curriculum by networking and supporting 90 academics already trained in HIV/AIDS curriculum integration to share their knowledge and skills with other institutions
· Monitoring institutions where faculty are trained to integrate HIV/AIDS into university curricula
· Sourcing and distributing HIV/AIDS teaching and learning resource materials for institutions
· Translating, printing the AAU HIV/AIDS Toolkit and using it in training Trainers
· Developing the AAU HIV/AIDS Toolkit into an Internet-based modular and certificated training course
· Sponsorships to international and regional HIV/AIDS meetings and conferences.
· Surveys, research and small grants to students to research on HIV/AIDS and related issues such as gender, rural productivity and livelihoods, orphans and vulnerable children and the role of men.
· Sharing of promising approaches through publications, newsletters and website postings
Expected results.
· African higher education leaders mobilized to promote a message of awareness and the need for action against the threat of HIV/AIDS
· Essential human and physical capacity developed to prevent, manage and mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS at institutional levels
· Majority of African higher education institutions have developed policies and program and are responding to the threat of HIV/AIDS and are paying attention to the impact of HIV/AIDS on women in particular. HIV/AIDS integrated in curricula and higher education institutions are graduating “AIDS-competent students”
· A number of good practice are visible, documented and are being shared
· Coordinated regional networks of institutions fighting HIV/AIDS exists across the AAU’s membership and beyond
· Partnerships with national and international agencies are established to mobilize resources in support of the institutions and the Secretariat |
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African Universities Responding to HIV/AIDS
