 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 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. Many high-level academics and practitioners participated in the meeting. Among those present were Kim Duncan and Marina Galati of the Rush Foundation and RethinkHIV and, on the second day, Bjorn Lomborg, Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre. The discussions at last the ERG meetingof 2011 focused on the barriers to the sustainability of the AIDS response, especially the way in which it is financed and managed. As the ERG Secretariat, HEARD's executive director Professor Alan Whiteside and researcher Mrs Ilaria Regondi coordinated and provided leadership to this informative and engaging forum for discussion. It is hoped that the outcome of the meeting will inform high-level decision-making within UNAIDS and the World Bank, with the ultimate of improving the efficiency, effectiveness and long-term feasibility of the global HIV and AIDS response Follow HEARD On
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