The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has issued a call for a new round of proposals for grant funding. The new round of grants will contribute to a substantial increase in the amount of money available in the global fight against the three diseases.
Jobs and Announcements
The Global Fund on AIDS, Malaria and Tuberclosis invites Funding
Further details: /newsletter/id/30217
World Bank: Putting a price on health!
This campaign aims to promote a universal access to healthcare and to reassert the role of the Government as guarantor of the universal right to health. In order to do so we are asking the World Bank to :
· Cease promoting the privatization of health services and to redirect its financing towards public and supportive health system ;
· Stop supporting the utilization of user fees, which limit the access to health for the poorest populations ;
· Deliver its aid through grants instead of loans, so that financing access to health no longer adds to States' indebtness.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30239
African Partnerships Conference
24-26 March 2005, Johannesburg, South Africa
As an innovative development from the Annual Research Day of the Faculty of Health Sciences, the University of the Witwatersrand, there are plans to host a multi-stakeholder conference in 2005. The objective of the conference is to highlight ongoing health sciences research being conducted at WITS and other African universities and research institutions to local and international audiences able to participate.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30139
Challenging health inequalities - forging progressive partnerships for public health
6 - 8 June 2004, South Africa
The next International Association of Health Policy (IAHP) conference will be held in South Africa the 6, 7 and 8th June 2004. The conference theme is 'Challenging health inequalities - forging progressive partnerships for public health'.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30147
CODESRIA INSTITUTE ON HEALTH, POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN AFRICA
Call For Applications For The 2004 Inaugural Session
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) was established in 1973 as an initiative of African scholars for the promotion of multidisciplinary research that extends the frontiers of knowledge production in and about Africa, and also responds to the challenges of African development. As part of on-going programme innovation and expansion, the Council has decided to launch an experimental institute on Health, Politics and Society in Africa in a bid to promote an enhanced interest in multidisciplinary health research among African scholars. The initiative flows from the current CODESRIA strategic plan which has placed a considerable emphasis on the promotion of a social science approach to health studies in Africa and a structured dialogue between the Social Sciences and the Health/Biomedical Sciences.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30137
e-3x5 discussion list
The e-3x5 is an electronic discussion group and information network created by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNAIDS in collaboration with SATELLIFE. The goal of e-3x5 is to provide a forum for dialogue and exchange of information on the WHO and partner-supported initiative to get 3 million people living with HIV/AIDS in resource-limited countries on antiretroviral therapy (ART) by the end of 2005, as a first step to achieving the goal of universal access to treatment as a human right.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30141
Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative: Letters of intent deadline
This is a reminder about a path-breaking research opportunity: the deadline for submitting Letters of Intent under the $200 million Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative is January 9. A version of the announcement and detailed program information is available on the Grand Challenges in Global Health Web site.
Research Methodology Training Course - HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
8 - 19 March 2004, South Africa
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/30116
SOUTHERN AFRICA: PROGRAMME OFFICER
Equinet
The Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) is seeking a dynamic and committed public health professional as a programme officer to support the work in EQUINET. EQUINET works on issues of equity in health in southern Africa and supports research, policy development and analysis, information dissemination, networking and advocacy through institutions across southern Africa.
The programme officer works closely with the programme manager, the co-ordinators of EQUINET’s theme work and the steering committee. The work involves:
- Reviewing and providing technical and administrative support to the research, publication and policy intervention work, within specific themes and across the network;
- Preparing calls for grants, meeting and conference announcements, briefings and reports;
- Implementation and reporting on network wide activities (skills workshops, training, student grants, cross cutting research and analysis, conferences, publications and policy intervention);
- Ensuring the production and dissemination of EQUINET publications;
- Organising and ensuring reporting on core EQUINET processes, including evaluation work, the steering committee meetings and the EQUINET conference;
- Presenting EQUINET work and analysis in policy platforms, networks and joint alliance work in the Southern African Development Community (SADC);
- Providing input to the EQUINET website, newsletter and data bases.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30140
AFRICAN CONFERENCE FOR SEXUAL HEALTH AND RIGHTS
25-29 February 2004, Johannesburg, South Africa
An invitation is extended to healthcare practitioners, educators, psychologists, social workers, sexual health and rights policymakers and advocates to attend this milestone congress. Sexual health and rights are fundamental human rights and this conference intends to promote the advancement of these throughout Africa.