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Session 2

HIV Prevention through the Arts

Thursdays: February 7, 14, 21, 28
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.
Where: Pappajohn Business Building, W151 (Tippie Auditorium)
Registration deadline: January 24
Class limit: 150

Since their first appearance just over a quarter century ago, HIV and AIDS have spread rapidly and widely across the globe, despite extensive publicity and health education efforts. HIV is one of the least infectious viruses ever to become a major epidemic and security risk. We will look at the factors which contribute to the spread of HIV, analyze some of the prevention efforts, and then look in depth at work carried out by UNICEF in Swaziland (the country worst hit by HIV) to use storytelling, drama, and music to involve and reach young people with information about HIV, as well as to arouse public opinion for action against sexual abuse of children.

INSTRUCTOR: Alan Brody worked 22 years for the U.N. Children's Fund, starting in Nigeria and later in Turkey in child health programs (1984-93). He was UNICEF's planning officer and deputy head of the office in Afghanistan (1993-95) working on emergency programs. In China (1995-99), he oversaw programming in education, women's development and poverty alleviation, and the development of national child monitoring systems. He was the UNICEF representative in Swaziland (1999-2006), restructuring that program to focus around HIV and AIDS and the many ways it was affecting children. He has a Ph.D. (1984) in journalism and mass communication from the UI, where he studied the use of communication in Third World Development, and a bachelor's degree from Yale (1968), where he majored in English and focused on fiction writing. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana (1968-70 and 1972-78), with assignments in secondary school teaching, health (communicable disease statistics), journalism teaching, rural small business development, and agricultural communication. He retired from UNICEF in 2006 to return to Iowa City and a career focused on his writing.

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