 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 The South African Work-Family Symposium where employers can gauge their progress on work-family policy against other players in the industry will take place on 30 November in Cape Town. The Symposium will bring together HR practitioners, academics, trade unionists and labour lawyers in a dynamic forum to explore the diverse and challenging issues around the combination of work and care in the 21st Century. A collaboration between the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University of Cape Town (UCT) and the Businesswomen's Association (BWA), the symposium will incorporate a truly global perspective with presentations by two world renowned researchers in the area of work and family, Profs Sue Lewis and Marian Baird. "The Symposium will provide a rare opportunity for employer, trade union and individual employee perspectives on 'family-friendly' work arrangements to be shared and debated,” said HEARD research associate, Lisa Dancaster. Of particular value to participants will be the results of Dancaster's recently completed Work-Family Arrangements Survey which will provide employers with invaluable information on the nature and extent of work-family arrangements in South African organisations. For further enquiries and bookings contact heard@ukzn.ac.za |
