“…The social work discipline’s tenets and approaches have positioned it to play a highly useful role within efforts deployed to meet the complex challenges of managing the epidemic (Sacramento, 2015). Within the body of Canadian literature, only a very few studies have addressed HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitudes among populations of healthcare students (Hoffart et al, 2012; Jaworsky et al, 2017) and it is necessary to look further afield to identify research examining these themes in relation to populations of social work students (Handal, 2017; Koob and Harvan, 2003; Natale et al, 2010). Indeed, it seems that, over the last 20 years, few studies have aimed to examine HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitudes among higher education students in general (Cassidy et al, 2015; Labra et al, 2017).…”