Programme Planning for Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health focuses on building sound interventions for adolescent sexual and reproductive health designed to strengthen institutional capacity to effectively monitor programme operations and evaluate performance. The nuts and bolts of programme planning are fused with adolescent-centered SRH concerns through an array of provocative and interactive sessions.
Jobs and Announcements
Planning for Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Programmes
1 - 26 August 2005, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Association for Health and Environmental Development (AHED) – Egypt fifth conference
The "Association for Health and Environmental Development (AHED) – Egypt" in the collaboration with "People's Health Movement (PHM)" has the pleasure to announce its fifth general conference that will be held on May 14th and 15th, 2005. The conference under the title " PEOPLE'S HEALTH: DETERMINANTS, CURRENT CHALLENGES, AND OPPORTUNITIES" aims at identifying the current challenges facing people's health, determinants of ill health as well as identifying alternative strategies for better health. You can access the conference announcement and application form at AHED's website, www.ahedegypt.org, where you can also find the Arabic versions of both the announcement and the application form. You may apply online via through AHED's website from this link http://www.ahedegypt.org/application.htm.
Economic justice festival calls for action on cotton subsidies
"We cotton farmers, people living with HIV/AIDS, youth, women, cross border traders and economic justice activists participating in the Global Week of Action Economic Justice Festival in the Harare Gardens, Zimbabwe, 13 April 2005 note with great concern testimonies given by cotton farmers. The peasant farmers have lamented the grand robbery that has pushed their households into abject poverty. The enemy is known. It is the unfair low prices that cotton is fetching in the current marketing season. It is the unfair world trading system. It is the failure of global institutions such as the WTO to deliver social justice to the poor and downtrodden producers of this earth."
Further details: /newsletter/id/30924
Ford Foundation/SAHARA Doctoral Scholarships
The SAHARA Network seeks to promote outstanding research in the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and to foster a fruitful dialogue between scholars and policymakers in all sectors. The Network is committed to supporting work of academic excellence that helps to promote public discussion on AIDS issues in Africa and the rest of the developing world. The SAHARA Network is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the Ford Foundation/SAHARA Doctoral Scholarships of Senior Research Fellows. The SAHARA Network, coordinated by the Human Sciences Research Council, must nominate four candidates for these awards, each valued at US$ 44,000 each year up for a 3-year tenure.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30902
Health and Human Rights: Train-the-Trainers course
Training in human rights for health professionals has increasingly been identified as a critical need for the health sector. This is particularly the case in light of the findings of the Truth Commission that highlighted the role played by training institutions in human rights abuses under apartheid. The course is aimed at teaching staff in institutions training health professionals -Universities, Technicons, Nursing Colleges and other Training Facilities. Participants should ideally be teachers active in undergraduate or postgraduate teaching in a position to introduce or facilitate ongoing sustainability of training initiatives beyond the course.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30913
International Health Policy Researcher
The applicant will mainly be working with Wim Van Damme, professor in public health in a research project on the big players in international health policies, with a particular focus on the role of public - private partnerships (PPPs), especially the Global Fund. Our aim is to understand and document the effects of PPPs and other funding initiatives on the health systems of low-income countries, especially on those hardest hit by HIV/AIDS.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30921
LLM in Human Rights Specialising in Reproductive and Sexual Rights
The Centre for Human Rights Studies in the Faculty of Law, University of the Free State, South Africa, invites applications for admission to study for a Masters Degree (LLM) in Human Rights specialising in Reproductive and Sexual Rights. The LLM in Human Rights specialising in Reproductive and Sexual Rights is the first of its kind on the African continent. It is running for the first time in 2005. It is an international programme that is aimed at equipping committed lawyers from the African continent with academic and practical skills for securing the realisation of reproductive and sexual rights at a domestic as well as an international level.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30919
Research Methodology Training Course in the Field of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
The Graduate School, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand is delighted to announce a Research Methodology Training Course in the Field of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. This research training course is designed to prepare researchers and postgraduate students with requisite knowledge for formulating sound projects to meet the requirements of postgraduate training of the University of the Witwatersrand and other universities.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30911
Senior Program Officer/Specialist, Governance, Equity and Health
IDRC
IDRC's Governance, Equity and Health programme initiative supports research in developing countries to promote equitable provision of public health and health care services. Our programme includes research on financing, delivery, access and governance challenges across a number of themes and regions. We are looking for a dynamic, self-motivated colleague to complement our team's strong public health, governance and social science capacity with knowledge in health or social sector financing and economics.
Strategic research on the effects of global health initiatives on health systems development
Call for Proposals
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research was established in November 1999 as an initiative sponsored by the Global Forum for Health Research in collaboration with the World Health Organization. The Alliance aims to promote the generation, dissemination and use of knowledge for enhancing health system performance. One of its objectives is to stimulate the generation and synthesis of knowledge, encompassing evidence, tools and methods. To achieve this objective the Alliance has been undertaking strategic research to develop international knowledge in high priority but neglected or innovative areas, encouraging new policy thinking.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30933