 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 An Evaluation into SAB's Tavern Intervention Programme
HEARD has been commissioned to conduct an evaluative study of the Tavern Intervention Programme (TIP), a joint initiative between South African Breweries Ltd (SAB) and Men for Development in South Africa (MEDSA). The programme is facilitator-driven, targeted solely at men and covers the following topics: HIV and AIDS, responsible alcohol consumption, child care and domestic violence in order to promote positive behaviour change for participants. It is also hoped that these men would in turn serve as ambassadors in their community for responsible behaviour. Men are recruited for the programme via a highly consultative process between SAB and various stakeholders within each of the selected communities, including the owners of taverns and the South African Police Services. Facilitation, which usually occurs at a tavern within the community, is conducted weekly for six weeks and participants who attend every session are awarded with a certificate at a graduation ceremony. This national intervention, which began in 2009, has had more than 960 men complete the programme. However, until now there has been no formal evaluation on the efficacy of the intervention in creating sustained changes in participants knowledge, attitudes and behaviours around the topics already mentioned. HEARD will conduct this evaluative study in 2011/2012 across two sites (KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga) in South Africa. Fieldwork at the first site in KwaZulu-Natal began in October 2011 and data collection at the second site is scheduled to begin early in 2012. The study will utilise a pre-test/post-test experimental design that includes the use of a control group. This involves an assessment of participants’ knowledge, attitudes and behaviour before the intervention begins, immediately after it finishes and six months after the completion of the intervention to determine the extent to which behaviour change attributable to the intervention has been sustained. A final report is scheduled to be released to SAB toward the end of 2012.
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