Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 18, 2005|Volume 33, Number 19

AIDS and other health issues in South Asia will be the focus of international conference

Internationally renowned scholars will come together for a conference titled "Health Crisis in South Asia: Socioeconomic and Opportunistic Disease Consequences of AIDS" Friday-Saturday, Feb. 18-19, at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS).

"It is paramount to discuss the health crisis and, in particular, AIDS in South Asia because of the wide-ranging socioeconomic consequences it has on life," says T.N. Srinivasan, the Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics and chair of the South Asian Studies Council at YCIAS, who convened the conference.

"India has the second largest number of HIV infections in the world following South Africa and accounts for nearly 10% of the global HIV/AIDS prevalence," says Srinivasan. "In the absence of implementation of strong and wide-ranging prevention programs, it is estimated that by 2010 India will have over 20 million HIV/AIDS cases."

The conference will include six sessions: "AIDS: An Overview of the Problem and the Government Response," "Socioeconomic Consequences," "Understanding Opportunistic Infections, Social Suffering and Stigma," "Patents, Pharmaceuticals, Pricing and Generic Drugs Delivery," "Where Do We Go from Here?" and "AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria."

The keynote address, titled "Achieving the Millennium Development Goals on Health in South Asia," will be delivered by noted economist Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University. Participants from around the globe will include: S.Y. Quraishi, India's National AIDS Control Organization; Suniti Solomon, YRG CARE, India; Suman Mehta, United Nations Program on AIDS; Mead Over, World Bank; Janet Fleischman, Center for Strategic and International Studies, India; Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University; and William Haddad, Biogenerics Inc. and consultant to Cipla Ltd.

During dinner, Ambassador Teresita Schaffer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies will present an address titled "AIDS Epidemic: International Relations and Security Aspects." In addition to Srinivasan, the Yale participants will be Rohini Pande, Nalini Tarakeshwar, Thomas Blom Hansen, Gerald Friedland, Michael Merson and Peter Salovey.

A complete program can be found at www.yale.edu/ycias/southasia/events/aids.htm.

The conference, which is free and open to the Yale community, will take place in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

The event is sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, with support from the Rustgi Family Fund, the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund at Yale, and YCIAS.

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