 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 HEARD's Presence at ICASA 2011
The 16th International Conference on Aids in Africa (ICASA) opened in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on 4 December 2011, and HEARD participated with several abstracts and events. HEARD researcher Ilaria Regondi presented on Ways of Increasing the Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Global HIV Response in the session Value for Money – Sustaining HIV Response. The Gender and HIV Prevention programme manager Samantha Willan and post-doc research fellow Jaqualine Mangoma held a pre-conference workshop in collaboration with ATHENA, SANAC Women's Sector, AIDS Legal Network and AIDS and Rights Alliance for southern Africa (ARASA) on 3 of December 2011. The workshop focused on strengthening the next generation on National Strategic Plans on HIV and AIDS to champion women, girls and gender equality. The team also presented a poster on How Do National Strategic Plans on HIV/AIDS in Southern and Eastern Africa Integrate Women, Girls and Gender Equality. In addition HEARD’s disability project presented two posters; one focusing on NSP development Including the World’s biggest Minority – People with Disabilities in National Strategic Plans (NSPs) on HIV and AIDS and the other on research results from Zambia Are we not Human?!: Results of the "Sepo Study" a Study Lead by the University of Toronto. The disability team also launched a Disability NSP Review Framework in a special session on Intersectionality of HIV and Disability in HIV Programming and Policy. Dr Jill Hanass-Hancock spoke in this session on Actual Responses on How to Address Disability within the National Response. HEARD’s participation in the ICASA Disability Zone, provided presentations on disability and HIV among those HEARDs film Stepping into the Unknown and a round table discussion on the inclusion of disability within National Strategic Plans in the region. HEARD researcher Ilaria Regondi co-chaired the session Investing in HIV Service Integration with UNICEF's Craig McClure and was a discussant in the session Value for money – Sustaining HIV Response. Follow HEARD On
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