The Impact of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
17.01.2011
"The terrain is everything" - Louis Pasteur as quoted by Professor Michael Kelly SJ when speaking in UCC about HIV/AIDS in Africa at the 150th Anniversary of the founding of the Society for Missions in Africa (SMA). In the next lecture of the Annual College of Science, Engineering and Food Science (SEFS) Public Lecture Series on January 19th 2011 at UCC, Dr Ian Stephenson will examine this terrain of poverty and gender and how these affect people's susceptibility to infection with HIV and their vulnerability to the impact of a member of their family succumbing to AIDS.

Ian Stephenson has been involved in community development in Ireland for twenty years and did his postgraduate research in the Department of Food Business and Development, UCC. The field work for his MSc was conducted in Tanzania and for his PhD in Zimbabwe and Botswana. He teaches on the Diploma in Development Studies and has also worked with the UCC Departments of Computer Science and Music and the Oral Health Services Research Centre.

The lecture will be delivered on Wednesday, January 19th 2011 at 8pm in Boole II Lecture Theatre. The lecture series is organised by Professor William Reville, Public Awareness of Science Officer, SEFS.

Full details of the lectures can be consulted by visiting website http://understandingscience.ucc.ie/Lecture2011.pdf

Admission is free, and as always, members of the public are invited to attend.

Picture: Dr Ian Stephenson

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