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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.
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 Putting Women, Girls and Gender Equality at the Heart of AIDS Reponse
The Gender Equality and HIV Prevention Programme at HEARD, the ATHENA Network, ARASA, AIDS Legal Network, SANAC Women’s’ Sector and the National Network of Women Living with HIV, Ethiopia, held a workshop on 3 December before the start of the International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (ICASA) in Addis Ababa, Ethopia. The workshop aimed to:
The workshop provided an opportunity for researchers, activities, women’s movements, HIV organisations and networks to come together and discuss Putting Women, Girls and Gender Equality into the NSPs. It built on the Framework on Women, girls, gender equality and NSPs developed by HEARD and partners in 2010. The workshop’s proceeding revolved around:
We felt compelled to hold this workshop because despite the disproportionate impact of HIV and AIDS on women and girls in southern and eastern Africa (ESA) and the continued rhetoric calling for an HIV response that works for women, existing national planning and policy frameworks in the region fail to comprehensively address women, girls, and gender equality. Further, national planning processes fail to meaningfully include and/or engage women and girls living with and affected by HIV,” commented Gender Programme manager Samantha WIllan. Failure to integrate women, girls, and gender equality in national, and regional, planning and policy-making perpetuates the marginalisation of gender issues in national HIV responses. With recent global and regional initiatives showing renewed commitment to addressing gender equality in the context of HIV, it is a strategic and long overdue moment to focus attention on strengthening the planning and policy framework for women, girls, and gender equality in the context of HIV,” said Willan. A crucial element of strengthening national responses includes strengthening and supporting the engagement of civil society – especially networks of women living with HIV and women’s groups – in planning and policy development, review, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
For more information please contact: Samantha Willan Samantha.willan@gmail.com or Jaqualine Mangoma Mangoma@ukzn.ac.za
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