Seminars

The seminar will focus on the following:

• The state of the epidemic
• Internal migration and contextual factors as engines for the spread of the disease
• Reduction in national pie and HIV/AIDS orphans as engines for social instability
• What can be done to tackle the issue

Newcastle University, UK, started collaborating in Africa in the 1980s on research into the epidemiology, clinical and public health impact, and prevention of chronic non-communicable diseases and their complications.

There have been remarkable advances in the molecular biology of HIV and major therapeutic discoveries in the past 28 years of the epidemic. Attention to treatment access has undoubtedly increased in recent years. However, for every patient who initiated ART in 2006, six other individuals became infected with HIV.

Experiences on Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission of HIV and AIDS (PMTCT) service delivery at the Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga  provinces will be shared during this seminar.

This talk discusses the concepts of statistical and biological interactions as well as interactions in public health and individual decision making. The techniques discussed are also applicable to HIV/AIDS cases.

Couples HIV risk reduction intervention & medication adherence intervention among HIV positive women. Deborah Jones is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and has provided psychological services to survivors of domestic violence and abuse and men and women living with HIV/AIDS.

Epidemiological parameters such as the disease prevalence, the force of infection, the transmission rate, and the reproduction number are playing a crucial role in the application and interpretation of mathematical and statistical models for infectious diseases.