The Health Systems Trust will be holding a conference with key stakeholders on 10 and 11 October 2007 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, to celebrate 15 years of work in strengthening health systems in southern Africa. A panel of external experts will be invited to formally review recent HST programmes of work during this conference. Participation in the conference is by invitation.
Jobs and Announcements
Strengthening health systems in southern Africa – Celebrating 15 years
Health Systems Trust, 24 August 2007
Call for abstracts: 6th Biennial International Scientific Conference, Nairobi 5-9 November 2007
Africa Midwives Research Network (AMRN)
Africa Midwives Research Network invites abstracts for presentation at the 6th Biennial Scientific Conference to be held at Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi , Kenya from 5 th to 9th November 2007. The main theme is "Strengthening research capacity among nurses and midwives: Challenges in utilizing evidence based cost effective interventions in promoting maternal and child health". Sub-themes include 'Health workforce intelligence for maternal and child health policy formulation and program implementation', 'Resource mobilization and equitable allocation for quality maternal and child health care', 'Social determinants of maternal and child survival' and lastly 'Malaria, Tuberculosis, HIV and AIDS in reproductive and child health'. The deadline for submission of abstracts will be 1st August 2007.
Further details: /newsletter/id/32429
Final announcement for CAFS Course on Supervising HIV and AIDS
Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS)
The Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS) is pleased to announce its course, "Supervising HIV and AIDS Services" to be held from 20 to 31 August 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya. The purpose of this course is to assist the HIV & AIDS supervisor in using a performance and quality improvement approach to guide, assist, train, and encourage staff to improve their performance and provide high quality health services. It is organised around a step-by-step process, useful for all supervisors, particularly the new supervisor. The process can be used to solve specific performance-related gaps in delivery of HIV & AIDS prevention, treatment care and support services and thereby improve health services. It can also be used to plan and initiate new HIV & AIDS services.
2nd SADC People's Summit to be held in Lusaka, Zambia: 15 and 16 August 2007
Southern African Peoples’ Solidarity Network (SAPSN), 2007
The 2007 SADC Peoples’ Summit will be held parallel to the SADC Heads of State Summit in Lusaka, Zambia. Following the successful hosting of the SADC Peoples’ Summit in Maseru in August 2006 - the Southern African Peoples’ Solidarity Network in collaboration with network members and other social movements and people based organizations in the SADC region will be holding a 'People’s Summit' on 15 and 16 August under the Banner 'Reclaiming SADC For Peoples’ Development and Solidarity: Let the People Speak!!!'. The Peoples’ Summit will offer CSO’s and Social Movements and opportunity to consolidate the outcomes of the process launched in 2006.
Further details: /newsletter/id/32379
Announcing CAFS course on Resource Mobilisation: 3-7 December 2007
The Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS)
The Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS) presents the "Resource Mobilisation" training course scheduled to take place in Nairobi, Kenya from 3 to 7 December 2007. This one-week course provides skills for designing, implementing and evaluating an efficient resource mobilisation campaign. With the advent of globalisation and the changing HIV & AIDS paradigm, managers find themselves in a far more competitive environment within which they must secure resources for the growth and sustainability of their organisations and programmes.CAFS invites you and members of your staff, grantees or collaborating partners to apply for admission to this course. The tuition fee for this course is US$1,000, which covers tuition, training materials, supplies and certification awards.
Call for Papers. Gender Festival 2007: African Feminist Struggles in the Context of Globalisation
Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP)
TGNP are pleased to announce that the next Gender Festival on 'African Feminist Struggles in the Context of Globalization' will take place at TGNP's Gender Resource Centre, Mabibo Dar es Salaam Tanzania from 11 to 14 September 2007. Discussions will take into account the present context of corporate-led globalisation and 'free market' ideology, and their impact on development and democracy in Africa and the world over, and examine alternative frameworks and strategies. The deadline for abstracts is 30 June, 2007 and for the final papers is 10 August 2007.
CIHR: Partnerships for Health System Improvement (PH SI) competition
CIHR and its partners are pleased to announce that the 4th annual Partnerships for Health System Improvement (PHSI) competition will be launched mid-July. The PHSI initiative supports teams of researchers and decision makers interested in conducting applied health research useful to health system managers and/or policy makers. Successful teams conduct projects of up to three years duration in high priority thematic areas within health services, health systems and policy research (including public health).
Further details: /newsletter/id/32367
Collaborative Fund for Women and Families
The Collaborative Fund for HIV/AIDS Women and Families
The Collaborative Fund for HIV/AIDS Women and Families in Sub-Saharan Africa calls for submissions of proposals from groups of women groups (non governmental and community based organisations) seeking funding support for Treatment Literacy & Preparedness. The overall objective of this grant is to support initiatives of women-led and/or women PLWHA led organisations especially those that represent specific interests of women living with HIV/AIDS.
Further details: /newsletter/id/32376
Regional workshop on Strengthening responses to the Triple Threat in Southern Africa - Learning from field programmes
Southern African Regional Poverty Network (SARPN), 2 Jul 2007
A study identifying how project activities have responded to long-term livelihood insecurity and short-term acute need will be discussed at a SARPN, CW and OI two-day experience-sharing workshop to be held in Maputo, Mozambique on 1-2 July 2007. The workshop is targeted at policy makers and influencers, practitioners and researchers from national, regional and international government and non-governmental organisations from the region.
Request for comments, views and information on the Gates Foundation
Global Health Watch, 2007
The Global Health Watch is an alternative world health report produced every two and a half years. The aim is to critique and assess the state of global health governance and action with a strong equity lens and with an explicit political and economic critique. One of the forthcoming chapters in the next Watch will be on the Gates Foundation and we are looking for informants, particularly from low and middle income countries, who have any considered views and observations on the Gates Foundation.
Further details: /newsletter/id/32373