The Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) and Health Systems Trust South Africa (HST) are inviting expressions of interest from individuals or organisations based within the region to contribute to a programme of work on Equity in the Distribution of Personnel in Southern Africa. Equinet is a network of research and advocacy organizations that have a specific concern for equity in health issues based within the SADC region (see www.equinetafrica.org or email admin@equinetafrica.org).
Jobs and Announcements
Equity in the distribution of health personnel
Call for proposals: Research Grants/Awards
Further details: /newsletter/id/30232
International Health Summit (IHS) Symposium: Leadership Development for Public-Private Partnerships for Health Gain
Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 - 26 May, 2004
This South Africa Symposium on Private Sector Roles for the Public's Health is being held in cooperation with the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine, The African Health Forum, The Nuffield Trust of England, and the Cambridge International Health Leadership Programme of the Judge Institute of Management in Cambridge England. The symposium will among other highlights showcase new insights into successful outsourcing of services from public hospitals and health plans to private sector organisations.
Monitoring and Evaluation for Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes
22 March-02 April 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/30240
Second African conference on the social aspects of HIV research
Conference Announcement and Call for Abstracts
The conference will bring together stakeholders interested in the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research in Africa. The conference is expected to be all embracing of all institutions, networks and alliances and would be widely disseminated through AFRONETS, AFAIDS and other dissemination channels. All interested stakeholders are urged to distribute the announcement of this meeting. The outcome of the African Conference should be of specific interest to researchers and policymakers who would like to promote SAHARA within the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD).
Further details: /newsletter/id/30234
South Africa: Co-ordinator
Global Equity Gauge Alliance (GEGA)
Are you committed to equity in health and health care? Would you like to work with skilled and committed individuals in developing countries around the world? Are you willing to travel? This is an exciting opportunity for a committed, enthusiastic, and hard working public health professional to work with world-renowned researchers, advocates and policy-makers focused on cutting-edge public health work. GEGA, based out of Health Systems Trust in South Africa, is dedicated to the promotion of equity in health and health care through effective advocacy and community action, based upon reliable health monitoring information. GEGA focuses on fairness in health and access to health care. GEGA's 13 country-based Equity Gauge projects, located in South America, Africa, and Asia, monitor inequalities and injustices in the distribution of health and health care resources, and aim to ensure that countries and communities can use this information to make a difference to those with the poorest health and the greatest need. More information on GEGA can be found at www.gega.org.za.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30222
The Global Fund on AIDS, Malaria and Tuberclosis invites Funding
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.
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