The International Young Campaigner Award recognises campaigners who are 24 or younger, who are based outside the UK, in many of the least developed countries of the global South. Eligible campaigners will be working to achieve social, economic or environmental justice in their home countries – and specifically on issues relevant to girls and young women. The young person who wins the award will benefit from mentoring, coaching and guidance from experienced campaigners to help them achieve results with their campaign. This award is sponsored by the Sheila McKechnie Foundation. It’s award is an opportunity for campaigners working outside the UK in some of the world's poorest countries, to become involved in the awards support programme. The successful applicant will be supported both in their home country and in the UK to help them make best use of the resources available to them, build their networks and alliances in the international community, and develop a successful strategy to achieve change.
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From 1 June 2009, the PHM Global Secretariat will be hosted by PHM-South Africa in Cape Town, South Africa. Ms Bridget Lloyd has been appointed Global Co-ordinator. For the last three years, from June 2006 to June 2009, PHM’s Global Secretariat has been based in Cairo at the Association of Health and Environment Development (AHED) and led by Dr Hani Serag with the support of the Global Secretariat Committee (Dr Jihad Marshal, Dr Alaa Shukrallah and Dr Ghassan Issa). Cape Town will be the fourth location of the PHM Global Secretariat. From January 2000 to December 2002, the Secretariat was hosted by Gonoshasthaya Kendra in Savar, Bangladesh and led by Dr Qasem Chowdhury) and then from January 2003 – May 2006 in Bangalore, India when it was hosted by the Community Health Cell and led by Dr Ravi Narayan.
Non-discrimination is perhaps the most fundamental principle underlying all of human rights. Yet, notions of equality and non-discrimination have yet to be fully developed as they apply to health policy and programming. What does equality actually mean in rolling out or scaling up services, or determining resource allocations in health? What dimensions of inequality result in inequity? What are the grounds for advancing substantive equality as it relates to preconditions for health and access to care? How is the concept of non-discrimination related to but distinct from development concepts of social exclusion? A forthcoming issue of Health and Human Rights will cover these issues and is calling for submissions.
Health and Human Rights, an international journal, invites manuscript submissions for its next theme issue on international assistance and cooperation. The ability of poor countries to realize the right to health must be understood within the context of the global political economy. Donor countries assume human rights obligations both directly and as members of international organisations, such as the World Bank, IMF and regional development banks. UN and international agencies, as well as transnational corporations under certain circumstances, may also have human rights obligations relating to health. This issue will critically explore how these international obligations are being defined and discharged, and how to make stakeholders accountable for their human rights obligations.
The Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS) is an African institution dedicated to strengthening the capacities of organisations and individuals working in the field of health, HIV & AIDS, population and development in order to contribute to improving the quality of life of families in sub-Saharan Africa.
To achieve its mission, CAFS conducts courses and provides research and consultancy services from strategically located bases in East and West Africa, with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, and a regional office in Lom, Togo. Highly qualified professionals, who form a multi-disciplinary team within the fields of reproductive health, HIV & AIDS and population & development, provide its services. The list of courses is as follows:
o Resource Mobilization & Proposal Writing, 11 - 15 May 2009
o Advocacy for Reproductive Health and HIV & AIDS, 8 -19 June 2009
o Supervising HIV & AIDS Services, 6 - 17 July 2009
o Advances in Behavior Change Communication for HIV & AIDS, TB and Malaria Programmes, 20 - 31 July 2009
o Promoting Gender and Rights in Reproductive Health and HIV&AIDS, 27 July -14 August 2009
o Impact Measurement, Monitoring and Evaluation of HIV & AIDS Programmes, 10 - 21 August 2009
o Developing and Implementing an Effective Knowledge Management Strategy, 21 -25 September 2009
o Leadership and Management of Reproductive Health, and HIV & AIDS Programmes, 5 -16 October 2009
o Strengthening Multi-sectoral Prevention and Response Interventions to Sexual and Gender Based Violence, 9 -20 November 2009
This is a three days non residential course aimed at enhancing the reporting and management of workplace HIV and AIDS interventions. The course programme is anchored in three core modules: Introduction to M&E; Developing M&E work plans, collecting, analyzing and using monitoring & evaluation data for programme reporting and management. The course is designed for those that provide oversight and leadership of workplace interventions, Human Resource Managers, HIV and AIDS Workplace Focal Point Persons, Clinical officers, HIV and AIDS Programme Managers, Peer Educators, and including workplace Union and Labor Representatives.
This course is intended for PhD students and other researchers interested in the quantitative analysis of inequality and inequity in health and health care. The course consists of five days of lectures and tutorials on a number of topics related to the measurement and explanation of inequities/inequalities in health. Apart from providing a general introduction into the range of approaches available to researchers, it will also provide practical experience of computation using Stata. Illustrations will be based on real-world examples drawn from evidence in European and other OECD countries, as well as developing countries. The objectives are to review health economics approaches to the measurement of inequality and inequity, provide detailed guidance on computational procedures using Stata and provide hands-on experience with computation-based exercises.
The Global Health Workforce Alliance announces the launch of its Communities of Practice (CoPs), entitled - Human Resources for Health (HRH ) Exchange. The topic of the moderated on-line discussion will be Task Shifting. This is the 1st in a series of planned CoPs and forms part of our knowledge brokering effort. It will be held from April 28 - May 8, 2009 and supported by facilitators who are expert in the field of Public Health and the issue of Task Shifting.
RuDASA invites all rural health practitioners to participate in the 13th National Rural Health Conference. The theme will be 'Tackling the Big 5: The Challenge of Chronic Diseases HIV-AIDS, TB, Diabetes, Hypertension and Mental Illness'.
The World Health Organization is soliciting high-quality submissions of original statistical research results and/or experience focusing on the topic, ‘Measuring health workforce inequalities: Methods and applications’. Selected papers will be presented at a special meeting in South Africa in August 2009. Submissions should focus on methodological developments and applications for measuring health workforce inequalities, with special attention to monitoring trends (over time and/or areas) and evaluating their impacts on health systems performance and population health outcomes. Priority will be given to researchers from low- and middle-income countries who do not receive financial support from an international source. Full papers must be submitted by 15 May 2009 according to the format prescribed.