Two decades after HIV/AIDS was discovered, it continues to spread across continents, infecting and killing millions and destroying entire communities. Sub-Saharan Africa, which accounts for 11 percent of the total world population, has 70 percent of all HIV/AIDS infections in the world, making it the worst-affected continent. Although one may dispute the alarming figures, the fact remains that HIV/AIDS has had devastating consequences for countries, societies, families and individuals. It is a global crisis and the outlook is worsening, with India, China and Russia projected to be the next centres of the pandemic.
Jobs and Announcements
AIDS: In search of a social solution
Publishers: TWN, Peoples\' Health Movement
Contact: twn@igc.apc.org
Peoples’ Health Assembly II and the Global Health Watch
Joint Call for Case Studies and Testimonies
A call has been made for individuals and organisations – activists, communities, health workers and academics – from around the world to submit case studies and testimonies to be part of the process of the second Peoples’ Health Assembly and the Global Health Watch report 2005. Click on the link for more information.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30657
Monitoring and Evaluation for Sexual and Reproductive Health
01 - 12 November, 2004, Johannesburg, South Africa
Monitoring and Evaluation for Sexual and Reproductive Health examines the underlying principles of monitoring and evaluation for programme managers. Participants explore the steps in establishing effective monitoring and evaluation systems and are guided in how to integrate gender analysis into their monitoring and evaluation plans.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30619
Vacancy: Public health coordinator
In the context of a joint collaboration between the Zimbabwean Ministry of Health, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) and the Institute of Public Health, Epidemiology and Development (ISPED) of the University Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, a two-year prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programme will be initiated at the end of 2004 in three rural districts of Zimbabwe.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30614
Call for articles from African NGO's involved in health care
AIFO/Italy and People's Health Movement Africa invite articles in English, French, Portuguese and Italian from activists, non-governmental organisations and grass-roots organisations based in Africa related to experiences of innovative approaches linked to promotion of any aspect of better health for different community groups. Articles selected by an international jury will be part of a book to be released and distributed at the Second People's Health Assembly (PHA-II) in Ecuador in 2005 and will also be made available on the AIFO website. Three best articles will receive a cash prize of 500 Euros each. Last date for sending entries is 15 October 2004. It is possible that some selected partners from this initiative will be sponsored by AIFO to participate in the PHA-II. A decision regarding this will be taken before the end of 2004. In addition, authors of the three prize winning entries may also be invited to an award ceremony in Italy. For more details write to: sunil.deepak@aifo.it
Further details: /newsletter/id/30594
Global Health Watch
Mobilising Civil Society around an Alternative World Health Report
The GHW is putting out a call for the submission of country or region-specific case studies. These case studies will form part of the electronic accompaniment to the alternative World Health Report to be launched in July 2005 at the Peoples health Assembly in Ecuador.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30578
Health Leadership Service (HLS) Initiative
Through the Health Leadership Service, the World Health Organization (WHO) has begun recruiting young health professionals to a two-year work and training program, specifically aimed at strengthening the knowledge and skills essential for leadership roles in public health at all levels -national, regional and global.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30607
Health Policy and Planning - New issue alert
September 2004; Vol. 19, No. 5
Masters Degree Fellowships: HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria Research and Training
The Graduate School, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand is dedicated to building health research capacity in South Africa and the SADC region. The School is inviting applications for fellowships (sponsored by the Belgian Embassy) to enable trainees to undertake full time master's level training in the Faculty of Health Sciences.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30567
New Publication: HIV/AIDS and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
This publication is the first in a three part series on HIV/AIDS and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa with the overall objective of providing a resource base on issues of rural development in a broad sense in the times of HIV/AIDS. This first book discusses the impact of the epidemic as it has emerged over the last decades at different levels of the agricultural sector, namely the farming system level, the livelihood level, and the household level. In a further step, impact on the agricultural estate sector as well as pastoralism is discussed.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30572