LWR is now recruiting for a Program Manager for HIV/AIDS Projects - based in South Africa - to support churches and related ecumenical or faith-based organisations in Southern Africa to develop programs to address the AIDS crisis in impoverished communities - based on need rather than on race, ethnicity, religion, or creed. This is a temporary position with a two-year contract with no possibility of renewal.
Jobs and Announcements
Visiting Scholar in Feminist Perspectives on Globalization
2004-2005 Academic Year
The Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's Studies at Carleton University and the Institute of Women's Studies at the University of Ottawa, with the support of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), are launching a four year project to allow scholars from the developing world, working in the field of “Gender and Development”, to spend a research term at their institutions. The “Visiting Scholar in Feminist Perspectives on Globalization” will contribute in facilitating the expansion of gender and development research at both universities, and also provide a unique opportunity for collaboration between feminist scholars in Canada and the developing world.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29993
Equity and HIV/AIDS: ICASA Satellite Session
Tuesday 23 September, 6 - 8 pm
Equinet and Oxfam would like to invite participants at the ICASA conference to a satellite session on equity and HIV/AIDS. The session is designed to discuss the often misunderstood meaning of 'equity' and how this is relevant to developing countries and their HIV/AIDS crisis. It will discuss if there is a need to develop frames of reference that are equity-based and not just poverty-based; and it will bring to attention the inter-relationships between wealth and poverty; and between justice and aid.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29943
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
by Paul Farmer
This book is Farmer's account of the disenfranchised poor whose lives so often end in tragic and yet, he contends, wholly predictable ways. They are victims of “structural violence,'' falling prey to treatable illnesses, preventable hunger, and crime, all for the sole reason of having no money.
south africa: HIV/AIDS Global Programme Coordinator
Oxfam
Oxfam is implementing a global strategy to respond to HIV/AIDS based on programme experience and global analysis. We are recruiting for a programme coordinator to support the integration of HIV/AIDS into Oxfam's programme and to establish and lead a global Centre of Learning based in South Africa.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29937
Training Course in Consultancy Skills in International Cooperation in Health
10 - 28 November, 2003, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
In international development co-operation there is an increasing demand for regional experts and consultants to conduct formal evaluations and write comprehensive consultancy reports. Despite the expert's professional competence, reports and documents often do not satisfy the expected quality standards of international agencies. These weaknesses result from lack of familiarity with formal expectations and 'unwritten' rules of international agencies. This course intends to improve knowledge and skills in planning, writing, editing as well as how to assess the quality of consultancy reports in the field of international public health.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29928
Workshop on the Ethics of Research Related to Healthcare in Developing Countries
12 - 14 February 2004, Cape Town, South Africa
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics published a Report, the ethics of research related to healthcare in developing countries, in April 2002. The Report recommends that medical research in developing countries which is funded by organisations in wealthier countries is crucial but must be subject to rigorous ethical safeguards. The Report provides an ethical framework for anyone who is designing or conducting externally-sponsored research in the developing world. A follow-up Workshop will be held in February 2004 to explore developments in this area since the publication of the Report.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29930
AIDS in South Africa: The Invisible Cure
Helen Epstein
This piece explores what the author describes as a "striking and deeply mysterious" denial of the reality of AIDS in South Africa. This country has one of the highest infection rates in the world and an equally high level of awareness about how to avoid being infected. Why, the author asks, have so many HIV prevention programmes - like those addressing high-risk youth - been so radically unsuccessful? Epstein explains that many of the efforts to change the sexual behaviour of young people in South Africa have tapped into what youth seem to respond to most readily - material culture, images of beauty and glamour, and fun/play.
Announcement: New Publication from Southern African AIDS Training
Southern African AIDS Training Programme (SAT) is pleased to announce our latest publication "Counselling Guidelines on Stress Management". SAT is a regional collaboration that supports community responses to HIV and AIDS through in-depth partnerships in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe and wider networking, skills exchange and lesson sharing throughout the region. SAT funding and skills building activities support partners in a wide range of relevant activities - HIV prevention, HIV and AIDS care and support, impact mitigation, networking and information exchange, HIV-related advocacy on gender and human/child rights. SAT partners are operating at community, national and regional levels.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29881
Announcement: Selection of NGO Liaison Committee-UNAIDS PCB
This is to inform you that the selection process for the vacancies in the NGO Liaison Committee of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board from North America, Europe, LAC and Africa regions has been completed. As you may know, the UNAIDS PCB has five seats reserved for NGO sector delegates on a regional basis. Each delegate NGO has an Alternate.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29880