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Collaborating Centre  Latest Publications  Multi-media | Latest HeadlinesTowards Microbicide Roll-Out in sub-Saharan Africa: Ensuring microbicides are an effective tool for HIV-prevention and women's empowerment
With the release of the highly successful CAPRISA 004 microbicide trial results, HEARD's policy brief celebrates the results and asks how to ensure a microbicide, once released onto national markets, can ensure HIV prevention and women's empowerment.
Click here for the policy brief.
Report Released: Legal Obligations on Women's Reproductive Rights and HIV/AIDS
Reproductive and sexual health rights are grounded in a constellation of existing human rights that are contained in international and African treaties. This report documents how 18 African countries have ratified, domesticated and implemented three key treaties.
For more information and policy briefs click here, and for the full report click here.
 Safe Sex/No Sex Month: Could it Work?
HEARD's executive director, Prof Alan Whiteside and Dr Justin Parkhurst of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have just published an article exploring the concept of a 'sexual abstinence month' to reduce HIV incidence. Published in the South African Journal of HIV Medicine, the authors champion a unique behavioural intervention where a population-wide 'safe sex/no sex' effort for a set period of time could make a significant contribution to global prevention efforts.
Click here for the press release and click here for the article. The article has generated media coverage, click here for the Voice of America podcast and for the BBC World Service report click here.
 HIV/AIDS Programmes at Risk Due to SACU Revenue Decline
The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) has been a reliable source of revenue for the countries of Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland (BLNS countries). However, this income stream is expected to come to an abrupt end in the next few years. HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment programmes are particularly vulnerable.
This is a matter of major concern and so HEARD has produced a paper looking at this and an issue brief to suggest options for BLNS governments.
 African Journal of Rhetoric Out Now
In 2008, HEARD commissioned CREST at the University of Stellenbosch to analyse the ratio of HIV/AIDS scientific publications published by 'northern' scholars in relation to those authored by African scholars in the SADC region. The results were disturbing and affirmed HEARD's strategic agenda to promote African scholarship. We are pleased to announce one product of our external capacity building initiatives.
Click here for more information.
HEARD's 2009 Annual Report Released
HEARD is a unique organisation in that it combines academic rigour with applied research and seeks to disseminate this in such a way as to influence policy. - Dr Anita Sandström, HEARD Board Chairperson.
Click here to view HEARD's 2009 Annual Report.
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 Live Feeds News: Addressing the role of religion in HIV responseNAIROBI - At a church compound in Nairobi's Mathare slum, women and their children line up for food rations. Among them is Zipporah Mueni, an HIV-positive mother of five. "I have come here to receive food which I will share with my children," said Mueni, whose husband was killed during the post-election violence... HIV and AIDS news from AIDSPortal
Retrieved: Sat, Jul 31, 2010 ZIMBABWE: Low breastfeeding rates threaten PMTCT effortsPhoto: David Morton/IRIN Mother’s milk still best HARARE, 30 July 2010 (PlusNews) – Health and nutrition experts in Zimbabwe are worried that one of the lowest exclusive breastfeeding rates in the region could have a negative ... World News : HIV/AIDS (PlusNews)
Retrieved: Sat, Jul 31, 2010 The Global Fund signs new AIDS grants with SenegalDakar, 5 July 2010 – Professor Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, today signed three new grants worth € 42 million with Senegal to scale up the fight against AIDS in the country during a ceremony organized under the auspices of the Minister of... HIV and AIDS news from AIDSPortal
Retrieved: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 Response to comments on international developmentThis is a response to the public comments received on The Coalition: Our Programme for Government on international development. Thanks to all of you who commented. DFID : News Stories
Retrieved: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 Health Experts Express Concern About U.S. Funding For International AIDS TreatmentHealth experts at last week's International AIDS Conference in Vienna expressed anger and concern about future U.S. funding for HIV treatment in developing nations and the knowledge that due to funding constraints, some African nations already are turning away patients who need treatment, the Washington... HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
Retrieved: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 AIDS 2010 Follow-Up Coverage: Global HIV/AIDS Funding; HIV/AIDS Studies, ReleasesMedia outlets continued to reflect on news from the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010, which attracted over 19,000 participants from 197 countries to Vienna last week, according to the conference blog. The Washington Post reports that "concerns about [the] costs" of global HIV treatment programs "dominated the... HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
Retrieved: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 Terrence Higgins Trust Re-Launches Support Group For Gay Men With Hepatitis C And HIV, UKOn Thursday 12 August, Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) will be running another six week course for gay men who are living with HIV and Hepatitis C. The group will meet each week from 6.30 - 9.30pm in central London. The course looks at living with both HIV and Hepatitis C, but the primary focus will be on Hepatitis... HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
Retrieved: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 Consultation on new third sector fundA new fund that will benefit a range of small to large civil society organisations will be launched by DFID this year. DFID : News Stories
Retrieved: Thu, Jul 29, 2010 D.C. Health Dept. Pushes Female Condoms In HIV Outreach InitiativeThe Washington, D.C., health department has launched a campaign to promote use of the female condom as a way to help curb the spread of HIV in the city, the AP/Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. A 2009 study found that about 3% of the city's population over age 12 is HIV-positive... HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
Retrieved: Thu, Jul 29, 2010 Peer-Reviewed Journal Publishes Findings By Viral Genetics' Lead ScientistResearch co-authored by Viral Genetics, Inc., (Pink Sheets: VRAL) lead scientist Dr. M. Karen Newell has been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Leukocyte Biology (JLB). Newell's article identifies a potential mechanism that promotes chronic inflammation, a characteristic of most autoimmune diseases. Viral... HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
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