Nyanzi to present a paper at the Policy and Research Group Seminar on "HIV/AIDS and Post-Conflict Societies in Africa" at the Centre for Conflict Resolution.

17 Oct, 2012,

Stella Nyanzi is presenting a paper entitled “Homosexuality, Prostitution and HIV/AIDS in Displacement and Post-Conflict Settings: The Case of Refugees and Displaced People in Uganda” at the Policy and Research Group Seminar on ‘HIV/AIDS and Post-Conflict Societies in Africa’ of the Centre for Conflict Resolution.

The seminar runs between 11-12 October 2012. Based on ethnographic research conducted among sexual minorities who are also forced migrants from conflict settings, the paper discusses the roles of human rights violations and discrimination in driving the HIV/AIDS epidemic in post-conflict settings.

For details visit www.ccr.uct.ac.za