Episode 1 - Rebecca Hodes

Mzantsi Wakho Podcast

HIV, democracy and adolescents in South Africa: An introduction to the Mzantsi Wakho study, by Rebecca Hodes. In this first episode we speak to Rebecca Hodes, who is the principal investigator of Mzantsi Wakho’s qualitative research. She is the Director of the AIDS and Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town, and an Honourary Affiliate of the Department of Social Policy and Investigation, Oxford University. Hodes studied history at Rhodes University, and received an M.Sc in the History of Medicine, Science and Technology and a D.Phil from Oxford University. She has published a monograph, Broadcasting the Pandemic: A History of HIV on South African Television (HSRC: Cape Town, 2014). Her academic work has been published widely in peer-reviewed journals, including African Affairs, the South African Medical Journal, the Journal of the International AIDS Society, and the Journal of Southern African Studies, as well as numerous edited volumes and collected editions.