Women, girls and HIV: Where are we 10 years on?
A panel discussion commemorating World AIDS Day
This year marks 10 years since the theme for World AIDS Day was 'Women, Girls, HIV and AIDS'. Join leading female researchers and scientists in a panel discussion on how to reduce the burden of HIV on women and girls and why a gender-conscious response to HIV is necessary.
Panelists
Quarraisha Abdool-Karim - Associate director: Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
Preventing HIV infection in young women - A key challenge to ending AIDS in Africa
Samantha Willan: Programme Leader: Gender Equality and Health, Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division (HEARD)
Can we achieve greater change by approaching gender equality and HIV interventions differently?
Glenda Gray: President, South African Medical Research Council
Women and HIV
Sibongile Shezi: KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Coordinator for Health Systems Trust's SA SURE project
(South African Sustainable Response to HIV and AIDS)
Women empowerment, HIV and AIDS: Are we winning the battle?
Jenniffer Maroa: Post-Doctoral fellow, K-RITH - KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV
HIV in girls and women: We are in this together!
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Venue: UNITE Auditorium Gate 8 (off Rick Turner Road), Glenwood, Durban