The CVMSC is committed to engaging in research, teaching, and community outreach activities that explore issues of HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence, and social inequalities both in southern Africa and abroad. The funded research projects of the CVMSC - Learning Together, Seeing for Ourselves, Taking IT Global, as well as the newly funded Youth as Knowledge Producers and elements of Every Voice Counts - take up these important issues in an arts-based framework, using the visual to give voice to the lived experiences of individuals and communities.

There are countless other important programs and organizations working to combat gender-based violence and reduce the spread of HIV, some of which we would like to highlight here.