Graduate Prerequisites: The MPH core course in social and behavioral science. AIDS is one of the most important pandemics and human development challenges of our time. This course explores the determinants and impacts of the AIDS pandemic, including poverty, inequality, and human rights violations, examines best practices in prevention and treatment, and movements for positive policy changes globally. Students will explore the relationship between human rights, gender and vulnerability to HIV; examine effective multi-sectoral responses; and evaluate the benefits and limitations of major multi- and bi-lateral AIDS initiatives. Students will also examine the major debates in the AIDS field and explore different, at times contradictory, perspectives. Students will write a policy brief focused on an HIV-related problem in a country of their choice. Students will identify the determinants of that problem, analyze the legal, policy and programmatic response to that problem, and make recommendations to improve the national response.

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