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HEARD Workshop "Informing Practitioners on the Economics of HIV and AIDS"

Description: The first HEARD workshop for 2012 titled Health Economics Workshop From Theory to Practice - Informing Practitioners about Economics and the HIV and AIDS Epidemic, to be held from 14 - 18 May is aimed at giving participants the opportunity to learn the skills and the contributions that health economics can bring to resource planning, allocation and evaluation in the health care sector. This five day workshop, facilitated by health economist Dr. Jeff Gow, will enable participants to think through some basic health policy issues in an economic framework. The application of concepts will be directed toward understanding and interpreting the HIV and AIDS epidemic in southern and eastern Africa.

Objectives:

Target Audience: health service staff who seek to understand how and why economics is applied to health care. The programme will be of value to health sector planners, managers and administrators from government, the private sector, special interest groups and NGOs

For more information and to apply, please click here.

AIDS @ 30: Engaging to End the Epidemic

Date: December 1-2, 2011

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of AIDS, Harvard University is convening a major international symposium. Several hundred global health leaders, elected officials, scientists, artists and activities will gather to reflect on what we have learned from AIDS and how to apply those lessons towards ending the epidemic. The two-day event, hosted by the Harvard School of Public Health, begins on December 1, World AIDS Day 2011. 

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