 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 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. Developing, implementing and researching interventions to prevent HIV in these communities is a critical response that the Gender Equality and HIV Prevention Programme and the Research Programme at HEARD are leading through the development of a gender transformative and livelihoods strengthening intervention (see HEARD News Issue 9 for more information). This project is in collaboration with the Gender and Health Unit at the Medical Research Council and Project Empower. Building an effective gender transformative and livelihoods strengthening intervention requires recognising how young people are surviving and constructing lives for themselves in these communities and working to strengthen their strategies of getting by. The project takes the well tested and effective gender transformative curriculum of Stepping Stones and links it to a livelihoods strengthening intervention being created by the project team. The participatory livelihoods strengthening curriculum, has been developed through an intense process of log frame development, work-shopping, and expert consultation. The first draft of the livelihoods strengthening curriculum was tested over five days in October 2011 with twenty young men and twenty young women, who live in urban informal settlements around Durban. It was inspiring to experience the positive energy and resilience evident among these young people, despite the enormous challenges of change, uncertainty and economic insecurity they face. The test successfully highlighted the strengths and weaknesses in the curriculum; but the overall learning was that we are well on the way to developing a curriculum which will build young people’s ability to think critically about the barriers they face to constructing their livelihoods, and how they may start to overcome these to build and draw on financial, human, social, physical and natural resources. For more information on the project contact: Andy Gibbs at gibbs@ukzn.ac.za Follow HEARD On
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