at Granger Bay Hotel School (CPUT)

BY SIPHELELE MASEKO

CPUT HIV/AIDS Unit held a lunch meeting on the 13th of December 2022 CPUT Cape Town Hotel School.

The CPUT Department of Student Affairs was represented at the meeting by representatives from its various divisions, including HIV/AIDS Unit, Student Counselling and the Campus Health Clinic, as well as representatives from its partners, such as Norsa, Anova, Wits RHI, Nacosa, Rape Crisis, Marie Stopes, and the Department of Health.

BE WISE, CONDOMISE

The Stakeholders meeting had the dual goals of celebrating and reflecting on stakeholder partnerships both old and new. Each stakeholder was given an opportunity to give an overview of the services offered to CPUT and discussed their plan of action for the coming year (2023).

The significance of providing CPUT students with access to HAART, health care and mental health services was emphasized heavily. The foundation for communication has been laid, so the NGO organizations now only need to decide how they will link their services to support CPUT students.

Our core value is to provide quality health services to the community, and to the students. Like my director, who used to emphasize that the youth is one of our most vulnerable groups and that we truly want to support them. We want to make sure that access to HAART, family planning, STI treatment, reproductive health care, pregnancy termination, and access to all the treatments they need, as well as mental health services, is improved (Yolanda Cottee 2022).

BY NTHABISENG MAAKE

On the 15th of October 2022 the unit opened the applications for students who were interested in becoming peer educators to apply, and as always many student applications came pouring from across all CPUT campuses indicating the great interest students have in becoming beacons of great work within their peers. It has been years since the CPUT HIV/AIDS Unit worked with the Peer Education programme and it has been a great success since.