 Message from HEARD's Director, Prof Alan Whiteside I have just three weeks of sabbatical left. It has been good to be in the northern hemisphere through a spring, summer and now an autumn. HEARD's Gender and HIV and AIDS Project Gender and gender inequalities are a central aspect in the transmission of HIV throughout the world, particularly in southern and eastern Africa South African Work-Family Symposium The South African Work-Family Symposium where employers can gauge their own progress on work-family policy against other players in the industry will take place on 30 November in Cape Town. Increasing African Capacity Central to HEARD's Capacity Building agenda, the Young Researchers Initiative (YRI) aims to provide support to young researchers based in eastern and southern Africa to produce high quality, accessible research on HIV/AIDS. At Last, Progress in Developing an AIDS Vaccine According to recent media reports, an experimental HIV vaccine has for the first time cut risk of infection. HEARD's Director, Prof Alan Whiteside was invited by OUPblog to post his views on this recent development which he says this will lead to new investment and energy in the development of vaccines. OUPblog is Oxford University Press' blogosphere for learning, understanding and reflection. A New HEARD Research Agenda on XDR-TB In response to the emergence of drug resistant TB in South Africa, HEARD has set up a research project to explore the reasons for the high levels of hospital transmission of XDR-TB.   | Newsletter Issue 1 October 2009 Health care workers, academics, clinicians and professionals converged at the 9th International AIDS Impact Conference held in Gaborone, Botswana from 22 to 25 September. HEARD had three oral and poster presentations accepted and also exhibited at the event which aims to bring together multiple perspectives on current HIV/AIDS issues and dilemmas. According to the conference organisers, AIDS Impact is designed to provide information on how the latest medical research findings affect the psychosocial aspects of HIV and is designed to "explore changing interactions between the biological, psychological and social effects of HIV and AIDS". The conference also provided an opportunity for HEARD’s researchers to network with leading social scientists from across the globe. Click below to view HEARD presentations and posters from the AIDS Impact Conference. Oral presentations
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