The People's Health Movement invites readers to consider writing for Critical Health Perspectives (CHP); either by writing something new, adapt something already written, or comment on a report or paper. Guidelines for submissions can be found at the weblink below and at the People's Health Movement website. CHP is a publication of the People's Health Movement, South Africa (South Africa). It is produced with the aim of offering an alternative, "peoples health" perspective and stimulating debate on critical issues related to health and health care in South Africa and elsewhere.
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Critical Health Perspectives - Call for papers
People's Health Movement
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ILRIG Globalisation School 2007 - 23 to 28 September in Cape Town - Alternatives to Globalisation
International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG)
Activists from all over Southern Africa are invited to apply. Since 2002 the ILRIG annual Globalisation Schools have brought together trade unions and social movement activists from different parts of Africa to engage in education and debate around the many aspects of capitalist globalisation. This year our theme will be Alternatives to Globalisation. All participants are charged a registration fee of R250. This includes materials, accommodation and all meals. ILRIG will not cover travel costs. Space will be allocated on first-come-first-serve basis and ILRIG will ensure a gender balance.
Institute for Health and Social Justice launches campaign on hunger and health
Partners In Health, March 2007
The Institute for Health and Social Justice (IHSJ) – the research, education and advocacy arm of PIH – has launched a campaign to galvanize knowledge, awareness, and action to combat pandemic coinfections of hunger, malnutrition and disease. The first round of activity in this campaign is a series of seminars to be held in the Boston area, organized jointly with the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts University and the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights.
Advancing women's leadership and advocacy for AIDS action
Pan African Treatment Action Movement (PATAM)
PATAM would like to invite applications to the Global Women's Leadership in HIV/AIDS Workshop to be held July 16 – August 10 in Washington, DC. It is the first in a series of international, regional and country-level workshops under the new Advancing Women's Leadership and Advocacy for AIDS Action initiative. Funded by the Ford Foundation, partners include CEDPA, the UNAIDS/Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, International Center for Research on Women, International Community of Women Living with HIV and AIDS, and the National Minority AIDS Council.
Call for case studies and human interest stories on urbanisation
Global Health Watch
The Global Health Watch would like to ensure that people's health issues and indigenous health issues are reflected within the second edition of Global Health Watch, and would like assistance and input in writing and sourcing human interest stories written in a simple narrative style. Where it is not possible to integrate stories submitted within chapters, they will put them on the web site. They would like both positive and negative stories, successes and failures, etc.
Call for papers: International conference on researching work and learning (RWL5)
The Researching Work and Learning Conference (RWL5) will be held in Cape Town, South Africa from 2 – 5 December 2007. The aim of the RWL5 conference will be to promote a truly global conversation about researching work and learning which enables us to rethink the `centre` and rethink the `margins` from a variety of countries and perspectives. At the same time the conference will strive to inject local southern African research issues and debates into the discussions, not in order to be parochial, but to deepen and enrich our understandings about `work` and `learning` globally. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 15 May 2007.
Essay competition: Young voices in research for health
Global Forum for Health Research and The Lancet
The Global Forum for Health Research and The Lancet are sponsoring their second joint essay competition on the occasion of Forum 11, the 2007 annual meeting of the Global Forum for Health Research in Beijing, People's Republic of China, 29 October to 2 November 2007. Entries relating to some aspect of the overall theme of Forum 11: Equitable access, research challenges for health in developing countries are invited from young professionals working in or interested in the broad spectrum of health research for development. The deadline for submissions is 20 April 2007.
Global AIDS Week of Action 20-26 May 2007: One week, one voice
Joint Call to Action
Do you think the world is doing enough to stop AIDS? Join a groundswell of civil society voices from across the world during the week of 20-26 May to demand a stronger response, greater accountability and more resources in the fight against HIV/AIDS. WHY: Last year, activists from 30 countries took coordinated action during the first ever Global AIDS Week of Action. It was the defining mobilisation before world leaders reported back to the UN on the progress they had made to meet their 2001 commitment on HIV/AIDS. So while in New York our governments boasted of the small gains made, in cities from Abuja to Phnom Penh and Delhi to Lilongwe citizens reminded them of the big losses.
Workshop: The political economy of health, Copenhangen, 8 July 2007
This is to provide advance notification that there will be an exciting workshop on the political economy of health on 8 July 2007 just before the iHEA conference in Copenhagen.
Further details: /newsletter/id/32166
4th International Gender Conference: Sexual and gender-based violence, a social nightmare provoking action
The theme for this conference has been chosen because Sexual and Gender Based Violence is a major Public Health and Human Rights problem throughout the world. There is the call on Governments and all other Stakeholders to take concerted action and make recommendations for the Health, Education and Criminal Justice sectors of society to take the problem seriously. The organisers believe that no positive and sustainable change can occur unless the problems of Gender Equity are analysed within the framework of Public Health, Human Rights and Human Security. It is only when all aspects of society have equal rights and mutual recognition of these rights, that there can be an all encompassing and equitable development for all.
Further details: /newsletter/id/32102