Panel I: Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research on HIV/AIDS in Brazil
Panelists:
David Martin, Harvard College 07
Amy Nunn, ScD, Harvard School of Public Health, dissertation: “The Politics of Life and Death: A Historical Institutional Analysis of Antiretroviral Drug Policy in Brazil”; Corporate Relations Manager, Global Business Coalition on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Sophia Zamudio-Haas, M.S. Candidate in Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health.
Moderator: Lorena Barberia, Program Associate, Brazil Office, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Amy Nunn:
Global context of the epidemic. In the world, only about 1.6 Million of 7 million needing HAART receive it
Brazil was the first country to implement HAART and has the...
Panel II: A Comparative Look at the Brazilian Response to AIDS
Panelists:
Varun Gauri, Senior Economist. Development Research Group, World Bank
João Biehl, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University; author of Will to Live: AIDS Therapies and the Politics of Survival (Princeton Univ. Press, forthcoming).
Cristina d’Almeida, National Agency for Research on AIDS, France
Moderator: Eduardo Gómez, Politics and Governance Group, Harvard School of Public Health; dissertation: “Contested Epidemics: Institution, Global Politics and Response in the United States and Brazil
Varun Guari, “Institutions and Identities: Explaining Gov’t Responses to HIV/AIDS in Brazil and South Africa”
Summary of his research with Evan Lieberman
Came out as a paper in...
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For any readers in the Bay Area, the Peace Corps invites you to:
“Stories from the Heart of a Pandemic”
A panel in recognition of World AIDS Day
Wednesday, November 29, 6:30 to 8 p.m.
World Affairs Council Auditorium
312 Sutter Street, Second Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108 [map]
In recognition of World AIDS Day, a panel of former Peace Corps volunteers and a Peace Corps country director will share stories from the front lines of the global HIV/AIDS crisis. Worldwide, Peace Corps volunteers have reached nearly 900,000 people through their work on HIV/AIDS. Come learn how you, too, can make a difference as a Peace Corps volunteer. For more information, please contact PC recruiter Sean Kennedy, 510-637-1525 or skennedy@peacecorps.gov.
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The 16th AIDS Conference is underway today. It should be a fabulous, fashionable event. Great keynotes and many famous faces....