Course Number:

Credit Hours:

2

Course Title:

Global AIDS Policy Seminar

Course Description:

Explores selected policy options for reversing and responding to the tide of infection. The global HIV/AIDS pandemic, the preeminent public health and human rights challenge of our time, is structured by biological, economic, social, and cultural forces ranging from the arcane structures of the international intellectual property regime to the cultural norms that prefigure sexual intimacy. Topics of classroom discussion and student research papers are: pharmaceutical research, development, and access; neoliberal economic and trade policies; gender relations and prevention policies; global health initiatives and primary health systems; health-care policy and health worker migration.