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HEARD is an UNAIDS
Collaborating Centre  Latest Publications  Multi-media | Quick LinksLatest Headlines2012 Annual Report Out Now!“The organisation has achieved an outstanding academic output. The number and quality of publications is at an international standard.” Professor Sheila Tlou, Director of the UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa in the foreword to HEARD’s Annual Report 2012. Click here to download the low resolution report.
HEARD Hosts High-Level UNAIDS Meeting
HEARD together with UNAIDS hosted a high-level meeting themed Investments into Critical Enablers for the KZN AIDS Response: Where are the Gaps? on 18 June 2013. The meeting - attended by the KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Health, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo - discussed the critical enablers that are crucial to addressing gaps, barriers and bottlenecks in the provincial TB and HIV response and its implications for financing. Click here to view picture gallery.
 HIV and Productivity in Southern AfricaHEARD senior researcher Gavin George presented HIV and Productivity in Southern Africa at the Skills Development for Employment in Southern Africa Workshop in Maputo, Mozambique which ended today, 18 June 2013. This meeting was the culmination of a study which is part of the Bank-Netherlands Partnership Program (BNPP) work programme on youth employment and productivity in southern Africa. The east and southern Africa education unit is leading a sub-regional study on youth employment and productivity in southern Africa, financed by the BNPP. The overall objective of the BNPP work programme is to generate and disseminate high quality empirical analyses of issues linked to youth productivity and employment, taking into account the cross cutting issues faced by the southern African sub-region. The four countries that are the subject of this work programme are Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa. Click here to view the presentation.  Multi-layered Contexts of AIDS in Southern AfricaHEARD researchers Andrew Gibbs, Marisa Casale, Samantha Willan and Alan Whiteside have contributed chapters to the recently published volume of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa: Challenges, Policies, Actors. The book collects articles based on a broad and multidisciplinary understanding of the multi-layered contexts of the AIDS epidemic in southern Africa. The contributors are scholars focusing on the international and regional debate on HIV and AIDS, as well as, the researchers who participated in the Community Based Systems in HIV Treatment project funded by the ACP Science and Technology Programme. Click here to order a copy and for more information. |  Workshops & Training New workshop dates will be released soon. Please email enquiries to  Events: Jun 2013  | S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
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 Live Feeds Dissolvable female condoms to protect against pregnancy and HIVScientists have developed a female condom which they claim can protect against pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV by dissolving inside the body and releasing specific chemicals.
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Retrieved: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 Revellers Receive Female CondomsRevellers in various night clubs in Bulawayo were at the weekend issued with free condoms by the city’s commercial sex workers. Each lucky patron received an orange envelope full of male and female condoms.
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Retrieved: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 Case in Point: Marketing the female condomHow do you create a market for a life-saving consumer product when the population with the highest demand for it cannot afford it?
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Retrieved: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 Press statement by Michelle Bachelet at the 2013 African Union SummitPress Statement by Michelle Bachelet United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 26 January 2013. United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Retrieved: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 Malian women make their voices heard: emergency aid, participation in the peace process, and justice for all“Our women have been beaten, raped, whipped, forced into polygamous marriages, and who knows what else. They have lost their dignity, but what is man’s dignity without that of women?” These are the words of Sophie*, a displaced woman living in Bamako, the country’s capital, but originally from Timbuktu in... United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Retrieved: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 UN Women adopts Paper-Smart initiative for its Executive Board sessionsIn response to the Secretary-General's call to move towards a paperless UN system and reduce the organisation's costs and carbon footprint, UN Women went Paper-Smart at its Executive Board session from 28-30 November, 2012 – and the initiative is now being replicated during the First Regular Session of the UN... United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Retrieved: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 “Ride on! Speak Out!”: Nine countries, 15 bikers, one issue – ending violence against womenA group of motorcycle buffs joined forces with Harley-Davidson Johannesburg and UN Women in a novel initiative to raise awareness about violence against women and girls. Over 16 days, they rode 8,200 km, across Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho. United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Retrieved: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 Economies rebound faster from crisis when responses focus on women’s needsThe need for gender-sensitive economic policies is the focus of two UN Women research papers being launched at a two-day workshop being held in New York from 21-22 January. Renowned feminist academics and policy experts will share critical perspectives on financial and economic crisis recovery. United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Retrieved: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 Enshrining Human Rights, Justice and Security in the Post-2015 Development GoalsSpeech given by John Hendra Assistant Secretary General, And Deputy Executive Director, Policy and Programme of UN Women at Wilton Park Symposium on Integrating Transitional Justice, Security and Development. 17 January 2013. United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
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