Short Course on Evidence-Based HIV/AIDS Programmes
August 19-23, 2006
University of Toronto, Canada

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
• Biology of HIV and preparing for new technologies, including vaccines and microbicides
• Clinical management, drug access and laboratory methods
• Monitoring, evaluation and surveillance
• Drug and commodities management and health infrastructure
• Ethics, law, human rights and political economy
• Economics and cost-effectiveness

St. Michael’s Hospital	International AIDS Society	University of Toronto