Practicum Site: Perinatal HIV Research Unit (PHRU), research division of the University of Witwatersrand, Soweto, South Africa. I traveled to Soweto, South Africa in May 2009 where I conducted research at the Kganya Motsha Adolescent Centre in Kliptown, Soweto. Soweto is a collection of townships southwest of Johannesburg with a population of approximately 3 million people.
Practicum Case Studies
Giulia Muraca, B.Sc. (Hons.), M.P.H. (Candidate)
Formative Research into Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Practices in Oshitenda (July, 2009). I travelled to Oshitenda, an informal settlement on the outskirts of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia to obtain baseline information on existing water and sanitation-related hygiene practices in their cultural, social, economic, and physical context. This research was carried out in order to develop a successful hygiene promotion intervention for...
