2nd HEARD HIV/AIDS Durban Workshop
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6 -17 July, 1999
Durban, South Africa
Planning for HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
Convenor:
Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University
of Natal, Durban, 4041
HEARD was formed as a separate division (previously HIV/AIDS activity
and research was under the Economic Research Unit umbrella) at the
beginning of 1998 to emphasise the University's on-going and
expanding commitment to the fight against AIDS.
The 1999 workshop will again be in Durban. Two weeks duration. Cost:
GBP 1,250/US$ 2,150/ZAR 13,000. This includes the workshop fee, full
board and accommodation, a per diem allowance, airport transfers, and
all materials. It does not include travel to/from Durban, or
additional travel insurance.
Description:
The workshop focuses on the response to prevention education and the
concomitant need to anticipate the medium and long-term social and
economic consequences of HIV/AIDS. The workshop offers participants a
unique opportunity for cross-pollination of ideas and strategies, to
review tactics, and to identify interventions appropriate to their
local situation.
Target Participants:
The workshop is designed for senior professionals concerned with
planning for the economic and social, demographic and human resource
implications of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Participants could include:
economists and planners from government ministries; AIDS programme
managers; donors; NGO programme managers; private sector
representatives; and special interest groups.
Pre-requisites:
No fixed maxima/minima parameters are set, apart from a good standard
of written and spoken English, as all applications are assessed for
suitability.
Workshop Contents Outline
Issues and Information:
- Data construction, collation, and interpretation
- Issues
- Socio-economic impact
- Vulnerability and susceptibility
- State of the epidemic
- Demographic issues
- Industry and agriculture, orphans and the elderly
- Economic and social analysis.
Responding: models, tools and techniques:
- HIV/AIDS audits
- Planning problems - demographic and epidemiological models
- Risk and environment
- Case Studies
- The use of AIDS Briefs
- Targeting policy responses
- Private sector, donors and governments.
Training Approaches:
The workshop core content has been evolved over a number of years in
various international settings. The aim is to ensure delegates
participate as fully as possible through a mixture of lectures, group
exercises, reading and practical work. For this reason, the original
name "course" was changed to "workshop", emphasising the inter-change
of information.
Evaluation:
Pre and post-course questionnaires are completed by delegates.
Certificates of Participation, featuring the sponsor's detail, are
provided.
Course Leaders:
- Alan W. Whiteside, Associate Professor at the University of Natal
in Durban;
- Tony Barnett, Professor of Development Studies in the School of
Development Studies, University of East Anglia.
Other Information:
A maximum of 25 places is available. Closing dates for applications
is 1 May, 1999. There is a possibility of sponsorship.
An application form can be requested:
By Tel: +27-31-260-2592
By Fax: +27-31-260-2587
By e-mail: freeman@shep.und.ac.za
By mail:
The Course Co-ordinator
HEARD, University of Natal
4041, Republic of South Africa
Suitably located applicants can alternatively contacted the Regional
AIDS Training Network (a principal sponsor), at:
The Course Co-ordinator
Tel: +254-2-716-009/724634/726765/713179/713697
Fax: +254-2-726-626
PO Box 11771
Nairobi, Kenya
mailto:ndiritucw@ratn.org
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