USING A DIFFERENT LENS FOR HIV and AIDS EDUCATION ...

IT’S NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY, THIS HIV AND AIDS THING!
This storyboard focuses on addressing HIV
and AIDS at tertiary level. The central idea is
that educators/lecturers at their respective
tertiary institutions were of the opinion that it
was the function of the Life Orientation
lecturers and their respective curricula to
dialogue with students about HIV and AIDS
issues. Secondly, the lecturers, in distancing
themselves from the pandemic, displayed their
insensitivity towards those infected or affected
by the pandemic. We felt strongly that HIV
and AIDS education ought to be captured at
the outset as everyone‟s responsibility, hence
the title.
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The storyboard proposes that HIV and AIDS
education should be included across all
faculties, yet realistically argues that lecturers
would not take the initiative to accomplish this
on their own accord owing to work overload,
lack of training in how to teach and how to use
innovative teaching strategies. We decided
that in order for the HIV and AIDS
programme to be successful, it was imperative
that it had to be enforced by higher authority.
So our story begins with the title frame,
followed by a critical reading of the various
curricula to ascertain whether and how HIV
and AIDS is included, meetings of lecturers
where they provide reasons for not carrying
out their responsibilities regarding HIV and