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 Economics and HIV
Kicking off the University of KwaZulu-Natal's World AIDS Day events for 2011, HEARD executive director Professor Alan Whiteside recently presented a public lecture to a full auditorium at Howard College Campus on the crucial subject of the economics of HIV.
HEARD’s Support in Responding to Government’s Call for Decisive Action Against HIV and AIDS The last quarter of the year has been an extremely engaging and fulfilling term for the USAID-HEARD project team, which was established in October 2010 to provide technical support to the national Department of Basic Education to develop the Department’s response to HIV and AIDS.
Pre-testing: An Innovative Livelihoods Strengthening Curriculum The new South African National Strategic Plan (2012-2016) includes a priority focus on urban informal settlements, recognising that these spaces are sites where gender inequalities, livelihood insecurities and lack of services intersect to drive the HIV epidemic, particularly amongst young people.
ERG to Advise on Sustainability of Global HIV and AIDS Response The 9th meeting of the UNAIDS/World Bank Economics Reference Group (ERG) convened in Washington DC on 29 and 30 November 2011.
Breaking the Negative Cycle Al Jazeera online recently published an in-depth opinion piece entitled Southern African: Breaking the negative cycle, co-authored by Dr Scott Drimie (HEARD Research Associate) and Marisa Casale (HEARD Researcher).
 The increasing chronicity of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: Re-thinking "HIV as a long-wave event" in the era of widespread access to ART.
More than just talk: the framing of transactional sex and its implications for vulnerability to HIV inLesotho, Madagascar and South Africa View More Publications   |
Newsletter Issue 10
December 2011 Animated HIV Education and Training Videos Available in English and Zulu
The field of HIV and AIDS is complex and rapidly changing making transmission of up-to-date information on the subject to the general public particularly challenging. To address these challenges, Bethel Health Builders organisation and HEARD have produced three short videos ‘Understanding HIV Testing’, ‘Stages of HIV’ and ‘How ARVs Work’ in Zulu and English through a grant from the Regional AIDS Training Network (RATN.) The scientifically-based videos strip all unnecessary medical jargon and provide fundamental information on the following messages:
Since 2002, family doctors Rick and Anita Gutierrez of Bethel Health Builders have been developing training materials to equip lay people, they call ‘health builders’, to screen educate and refer people in remote communities for common health problems. Health builders address HIV and AIDS, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and weight problems. They found that videos that they made themselves sped up the skills training process as well as greatly enhanced the ability of the health builders to reliably provide accurate, up-to-date health education. Health builders show the videos to individuals at the time of screening as well to groups in faith-based organisations, schools, businesses and homes. Additionally, health builders use the videos in weekly on-going holistic health classes that they are trained to lead. Group members are encouraged to set their own personal health related goals and help each other to problem solve as well as hold each other accountable.
In January 2011, HEARD and Bethel Health Builders received a grant through RATN to produce professionally animated videos on HIV which would be suitable for distribution on a wider scale. The animated format also facilitates the translation into other languages. These videos supply a vital tool in the larger efforts by government, businesses and faith-based-organisations to motivate HIV testing, treatment and prevention.The HIV videos which run from about five to 15 minutes are freely available from January 2012 and currently viewable on HEARD's Youtube channel. Click here to view.
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