Using routine data and advocacy to identify and address gaps in HIV services for men in sub-Saharan Africa: A personal journey
This is the fourth webinar part of the Measurement & Surveillance of HIV Epidemics (MeSH) Consortium series: Strengthening Routine HIV Data – A Female Researcher’s Perspective. This webinar will be presented by Dr Morna Cornell from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
During this webinar, Dr Cornell will reflect on her unusual journey from activism for the rights of people living with HIV in the early 1990s to mid-2000s, to public health research and advocacy in more recent years. Using routine data from large antiretroviral therapy (ART) cohorts in South Africa (the largest ART programme globally), Dr Cornell will argue for an equitable HIV response based on both human rights and epidemiology and highlight the importance of advocacy based on good evidence.
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Dr Morna Cornell is Senior Research Officer at the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Research, School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and a commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Gender & Global Health. Dr Cornell has worked in HIV/AIDS for nearly 30 years, including as the Director of the AIDS Consortium and later as a consultant for the Western Cape Department of Health. She managed the multisite CIPRA-SA (Comprehensive International Programme of Research on HIV/AIDS) programme from inception to closure. Since 2007, she has managed and undertaken research in the IeDEA-SA (International Epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS – Southern Africa) regional scientific collaboration. Her PhD utilised routine data from IeDEA-SA to assess the evolution and effectiveness of the South African ART programme.
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