Course Details

Course text: AIDS: Science and Society. 7th (SEVENTH) edition, Fan, Conner, Villarreal. Available on-line (cheaper), or electronically. Please make sure you get the SEVENTH edition. Chapter summaries, review questions (for Fan, et al., 7th edition) can be accessed at: (http://biology.jbpub.com/fan/aids/7e ).

Course Description: 5 credits / graded
As part of course requirements, students will present a current event based on each day’s readings or lectures, to be turned in twice weekly by midnight the day before each class period. Link to current event story can be emailed to professors, or turned in as a hard or scanned copy each class period. The current event must relate to topic covered in class-and a paragraph must describe how the ‘AIDS of the day’ current event ties into the class lecture.

Students will be required to write a 15 page research paper focused on the Millennium Development Goals, set in 2000 (http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/goals/) to be achieved by
2015. We are in the year 2015. Students will choose a lower or middle-income country and describe how their country has fared with meeting their in-country AIDS epidemic Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs). Students will summarize the in-country AIDS epidemic in terms of its current epidemiology (disease transmission and spread) and compare it to the epidemic in that country when the MGD goals were set in 2000. Students will describe in-country HIV/AIDS evidence-based prevention and treatment (medical/clinical and/or behavioral), and social or economic programs that were designed to reduce the in-country AIDS epidemic. Students will summarize the evidence for how the country impacted or did not impact its HIV/AIDS epidemic. Students will document the evidence of how their country achieved their HIV/AIDS MDGs. Papers will be due last week of class (week of June 1, 2014) on JUNE 5, 2015.