CCS PhD student Vuyiseka Dubula leads AIDS research workshop, 4 October Responding to HIV/AIDS in Africa: Connecting Public Administration, Policy and Communities South Africa Workshop Friday 4th October 2013 09:30-16:00 Section 27 Boardroom, 23 Jorissen Street Braamfontein Centre 5th floor, Johannesburg PAPERS Patient participation in South African HIV/AIDS policy development and health governance: facilitating citizenship?’ Vuyiseka Dubula PHD Candidate University of KwaZulu-Natal PUBLIC POLICY AND HIV/AIDS IN SOUTH AFRICA An Overview Tom Lodge and Vuyiseka Dubula PHOTOS PROGRAMME 09:30-10:00 Welcome and Outline of the Project – Prof Patrick Bond, Professor of Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. 10:00-10:30 Overview of the HIV/AIDS Terrain in South Africa – Prof Tom Lodge, Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Dean in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick, Ireland. 10:30-11:00 Tea Break 11:00-11:30 Presentation of PhD Research Proposal – Research Topic ‘Patient participation in South African HIV/AIDS policy development and health governance: facilitating citizenship?’- Vuyiseka Dubula, UKZN PhD Candidate, Development Studies, HIV/AIDS activist and General Secretary of the Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa. 11:30-12:00 Presentation of PhD Research Proposal – Research Topic ‘The production of stigma and the (re)construction of negative stereotypes in the conceptualisation and application of HIV/AIDS treatment/care and prevention campaign materials’- Tamaryn Nicholson, UKZN PhD Candidate, Social Psychology. 12:00-13:00 Lunch 13:00-14:30: Breakaway Sessions ‘Research and policy priorities for officials, civil society and political scientists working in the field of HIV/AIDS’ - All Participants. 14:30-15:45 Report-Back Presentations and Discussion – All Participants. 15:45-16:00: Close – Dr Shauna Mottiar, Research Fellow, Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.  Back