Planning for HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
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5 - 16 July, 1999
Durban, South Africa
Convenor:
Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), University
of Natal, Durban.
The 1999 workshop will again be in Durban. Two weeks duration. Cost:
GBP 1,250 / US$ 2,150 / Rl3,000. 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 addi-
tional 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, 4emographic 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 representa-
tives; 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 par-
ticipate 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.
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 phone: +27-31-260-2592
By fax: +27-31-260-2587
By email: freeman@shep.und.ac.za
By mail:
The Course Coordinator,
HEARD, University of Natal, 4041,
Republic of South Africa
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