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WORLD AIDS DAY 2014 PANEL DISCUSSION
This year marks a decade since the World AIDS Day theme was Women, Girls, HIV and AIDS.
Join leading female researchers in a robust panel discussion on the current size and shape of the HIV epidemic, why a gender-conscious response to HIV is necessary, how to reduce the burden of HIV on women and girls, and good practice models for protecting women’s sexual and reproductive health rights.
PANELLISTS
Preventing HIV infection in young women - A key challenge to ending AIDS in Africa
QUARRAISHA ABDOOL-KARIMAssociate Director: Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
Can we achieve greater change by approaching gender equality and HIV interventions differently?
SAMANTHA WILLAN Programme Leader: Gender Equality and Health, Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division (HEARD)
Women and HIVGLENDA GRAY President: South African Medical Research Council
Women empowerment, HIV and AIDS: Are we winning the battle?
SIBONGILE SHEZIKwaZulu-Natal Provincial Coordinator for Health Systems Trust’s SA SURE project (South African Sustainable Response to HIV and AIDS)
HIV in girls and women: We are in this together!JENNIFFER MAROAPost Doctoral Fellow, K-RITH: KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis & HIV
Moderator:
Professor Miriam AdhikariEmeritus Professor in Paediatrics and Scientific Advisor: School of Clinical Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal
26 NOV 12h00 – 14h00
UNITE Auditorium
Gate 8 (off Rick Turner Road)
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Glenwood, Durban
For all enquiries, contact Aziel Gangerdine on [email protected]
Refreshments will be served. Ample parking available.
RSVP by 24 [email protected]
From Durban Central (N3)Take tollgate off-ramp and turn LEFT into Ridge Road. Continue until you see the Main University entrance. Road veers left, keep left until the stop street. (Do not go into GATE 1).
Turn RIGHT at the stop street. (Steers, Nando’s and KFC will be on your left.) Continue across the traffic lights and turn RIGHT into Gate 8 and next RIGHT into Science Drive.
DIRECTIONSFrom the Airport( N2) Take the Pavilion off-ramp (N3). Keep on Spine Road exit. Continue until the Bellair and Spine Road junction. Cross the intersection (road becomes Rick Turner road). Turn LEFT into GATE 8 and next RIGHT into Science Drive.
