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Course Outline (pdf)
The Center for Global Health
Research (CGHR),
St. Michael' s Hospital and the
University of Toronto, in collaboration with the
International AIDS Society, offered a unique
one-week course on evidence-based HIV/AIDS control for
national and/or state/provincial government HIV/AIDS
programme managers in resource-limited settings. The
course was held at the University of Toronto immediately
following the
XVI International AIDS Conference in August 2006.
University of Toronto's Short Course was
designed specifically to enhance the knowledge
and skills of public sector HIV/AIDS programme
managers to develop and implement evidence-based
HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
The following topics incorporated points of view
which are relevant to enhancing policy and
programmes in developing countries:
- HIV prevention, including community-based HIV
prevention
- Applied epidemiology and modeling
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Biology of HIV and preparing for new technologies,
including vaccines and microbicides
- Clinical
management, drug access and laboratory methods
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Monitoring, evaluation and surveillance
- Drug
and commodities management and health infrastructure
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Ethics, law, human rights and political economy
-
Economics and cost-effectiveness
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