KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES REGARDING
HIV AND AIDS AMONG UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES

KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES REGARDING
HIV AND AIDS AMONG UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES

KUDAKWASHE SITHOLE

SEKAI NOREEN GORE

KUDZANAYI GONDO

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 analyse data from questionnaires and
thematic content analysis was carried out to analyse 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 can not be ignored.

International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research

2016