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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 SABCOHA Holds Conference on Strategic Saving for Sustainability
A two-day conference was organised and facilitated by the South African Business Coalition on HIV & AIDS (SABCOHA), themed Strategic Saving for Sustainability. The purpose was to align the activities and strategies of the business sector to those of the provincial strategic plan within KwaZulu-Natal and drive private sector commitment to meaningfully participate in the multi-sectoral response.
Senior researcher Gavin George was asked to participate on a panel titled: Improved Efficiency and Impact: Integrating HIV Programming into Disease Management and Employee Wellness. The panel sought to address issues related to the achievement of efficiency within the corporate sector, levels of integration with the public sector required for optimum efficiency and impact and to discuss the ‘economic business case’ i.e. are the savings greater than cost of interventions?
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