Abstract: HIV and AIDS have caused serious impacts on sustainable development in all sectors of the economy including higher education. The need to assess risk in higher education in Africa is lacking. This piece of work adds on to existing knowledge on HIV and AIDS among higher education institutions on knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding the epidemic. An HIV and AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices analysis was conducted among university employees. Data was collected using 100 questionnaires and 12 in-depth interviews from both academic and non-academic staff and descriptive statistics were used to analyze data from questionnaires and thematic content analysis was carried out to analyze interviews. The results show that there are high knowledge levels above 80% of HIV and AIDS, STIs among both academic and non-academic staff of all age groups and there is no significant difference between age groups and job categories. Reported attitudes show low risk attitudes. This however does not require that universities should not implement comprehensive HIV and AIDS programmes because the impact of the epidemic cannot be ignored.
Keywords: HIV, AIDS, knowledge, attitudes, practices, university employees.
Title: Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Regarding HIV and AIDS among University Employees
Author: Kudakwashe Sithole, Sekai Noreen Gore, Kudzanayi Gondo
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3164 (online), ISSN 2348-3156 (Print)
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