UM SPH Academic Courses

EPID524 AIDS: A Public Health Challenge

Winter term(s)
3 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s): Koopman, James S
Last offered Winter 2013
Not offered 2013-2014
Prerequisites: Upper Division or Grad Status
Description: Lectures will describe the fundamental issues necessary for understanding the public health crisis presented by the AIDS epidemiologic, including the virology of HIV, immune response and natural history, provision of care, prevention, legal/ethical issues. Includes opportunity for small group discussion of policy formulation. For those students satisfactorily completing a paper on a special topic in AIDS, an additional credit hour is available.