Course Description
Examines key events of the HIV/AIDS epidemic beginning with its emergence in 1981 to current trends in disease burden. The course highlights major advances in the field from discovery of the virus, invention of antiretroviral therapy (ART), innovations in funding treatment programs, and changing global strategies towards prevention and care.
Athena Title
HIV and AIDS Global Health
Non-Traditional Format
The format will include about 60% lectures and discussion and 40% practicum. The lectures will provide an overview of selected topics, whereas the small group discussions will allow for in-depth presentation and discussion of research. The practicum component will involve observations in clinical settings.
Prerequisite
Permission of school
Pre or Corequisite
GLOB 7100
Semester Course Offered
Offered summer semester every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
--Author a report synthesizing current literature on a topic relevant to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment. --Explain the historical aspects of HIV, epidemiology, and natural history of HIV and AIDS. --Characterize the specific aspects of the pathogenesis of the virus and targets for drug treatments. --Analyze the development and effectiveness of current treatment for HIV and AIDS. --Assess the historical efforts to develop effective health interventions for HIV. --Critically evaluate social, cultural, political, and ethical challenges to global HIV control efforts. --Appraise current advances in the prevention, treatment, and control of HIV/AIDS.
Topical Outline
--Historical aspects of HIV/AIDS --Global Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS --Pathogenesis of HIV: Natural history of HIV and the development of AIDS --Co-infections, including tuberculosis, herpes viruses, and other opportunistic infections --Treatment and care of HIV using combination antiretroviral therapy --Mother-to-child transmission of HIV --HIV Prevention: Advances in pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis --Advances in HIV vaccine development --Ethics and HIV --Global policy and funding for HIV control