HIGHER HEALTH focuses on sections of the student population that experience various forms of discrimination or disadvantage and factors that constitute a potential health risk – including young women and LGBTQI students.
Various peer-led destigmatisation activities are designed to empower vulnerable groups and to create a more respectful and enabling campus environment. The research done by HIGHER HEALTH suggests that 7.5% of student men who have sex with men (MSM) felt that higher education institutions were unsafe for LGBTQI students, with 10% reporting that they were subjected to abuse and/or violence because of their sexual orientation.