Overview
In conjunction with the 'Big Problems' course on "The Biology and
Sociology of AIDS," taught by Professors Harold Pollack (SSA) and Jose
Quintans (BSCD), this lecture series contributes to knowledge about
HIV/AIDS, and promotes networks of researchers, teachers, and students
on campus and in the Chicago area concerning these issues.
HIV prevention and treatment are coming to be understood as human rights
concerns, especially during civil war and genocide. Human rights abuses
spread HIV directly through sexual violence and coercion of women and
girls, and indirectly through poverty and social dislocation which
expose individuals to diverse behavioral risks. Within societies that
display tenuous commitment to individuals and groups facing highest HIV
risk, the failure to respect human rights poses other obstacles to HIV
prevention and AIDS treatment.
Civil strife disrupts access to or even basic provision of health care, especially in refugee camps. Sudan (among countries in the Middle East and North Africa) "has by far the biggest AIDS epidemic" (2006 AIDS Epidemic Update /UNAIDS), and Darfur is reported to be at risk of a mounting HIV/AIDS epidemic (allafrica.com, 12/7/06).
This lecture series invites experts to give public lectures on campus regarding the connection between health care and human rights, medical issues in HIV prevention and care, the experiences of individuals living
with AIDS, and the history of domestic and global AIDS policy. We will
focus on particular issues of special pertinence to Darfur: the impact
of social conflict on HIV risk, the particular role of sexual violence,
and strategies to treat men and women who have experienced these traumas.
Lecture Series
“Rape & HIV: Weapons of War, Tools of Torture”
Mary Fabri, Psy.D. Director of the Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture
 Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Click here to listen.
Also see: Students, faculty utilize Darfur Action, Education Fund (The University of Chicago Chronicle. February 21, 2008, Vol. 27 No. 10)
"HIV/AIDS in 2008: Much Accomplished, Much to Do"
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
National Institutes of Health
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
3:00 - 4:30 p.m
Reception to follow (4:30 - 5:30)
Biological Sciences Learning Center (BSLC) 115
924 East 57th Street, Chicago
Co-sponsors
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