HEARD News - Issue 11, July 2011

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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.
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 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 article, based on a 2009 manuscript published by the authors in the AIDS Care Journal, argues that multiple stressors - compounded by the AIDS epidemic - are at the root of the regional food security crisis. Coping strategies that erode household resources and an inability to plan for the future are two longer-term factors threatening the future well-being of children in southern Africa. The authors argue that decisive, well-informed and holistic interventions should aim to break this negative cycle. The article has also been one of the ten most downloaded AIDS Care articles in the year 2010 and 2011 to date.

Click here to read the full article.



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