The Global Health Law Program offers up to five prestigious Global Health Law scholarships per academic year. Global Health Law Scholars, in addition to the title, will receive full or partial tuition awards. These awards may be sponsored by Georgetown Law and/or major outside organizations in law and health, and may be coupled with internship opportunities. Applicants will be selected by a committee on the basis of their (1) academic qualifications in the fields of law/ethics and public health, health policy, health economics, bioethics, or other relevant disciplines; (2) public or private sector work experience on global or domestic health law issues; and (3) demonstrated potential for excellence within the field of global health law. Students' financial needs may also be considered. For more information visit the website.
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The draft version of UNAIDS’s strategic plan for 2011–2015 is now available for input from interested parties around the world. To add your comment, visit the link given here. The main goals of the plan are to help achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, halt the spread of HIV and contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). UNAIDS aims to revolutionise HIV prevention efforts by supporting communities to demand effective prevention approaches and supporting countries to deliver the appropriate combination of biomedical, behavioural and structural approaches. It also aims to support the development of more effective, ethical, affordable and sustainable approaches to treatment including its delivery and to scale up HIV counselling, testing and treatment access and coverage. UNAIDS will intensify its support to governments to realise and protect human rights in the HIV response, promote the enactment and enforcement of supportive laws and the removal of punitive laws, support communities to challenge harmful social and gender norms, address gender-based violence and promote the rights of women and girls for gender equality.
The guidelines, call for proposals, and proposal format has been finalized and are out! Deadline is March 10th. See attached documents or refer to the GFATM web site mentioned below. Again, this Fund is not for "business as usual". NGOs, including people living with HIV, private sector, civil society are to be full partners in the development and the implementation of the proposal through setting up a country-coordinating mechanism. The Fund is to build, complement, and scale up on existing efforts including innovative and pilot project. The fund will support treatment costs, including anti-retrovirals.
GICO - Gruppo Internazionale di Consulenza is an international engineering company that operates in rural and urban development sectors, both in Italy and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia. The Company offers services, consultancy and technical assistance to international organisations such as the European Union, The World Bank, FAO and UNIDO, as well as to government administrations and to private sector investors. For a long-term project of Public Health Support in Africa, we are looking for candidates in the following areas: economist; manager and administrator; public health medic; communication and IT specialists. Deadline for submission of candidatures: 29th November 2001 / Duration of the assignment: 1 to 2 years, Starting date: to be confirmed.
Is the world doing enough to stop AIDS? Take action in your country and show solidarity globally. Join a groundswell of civil society voices from across the world during the week of 18-24 May to demand urgency, accountability and more resources in the fight against HIV and AIDS. The severe impact of the AIDS pandemic on families, communities and economies is commonly acknowledged by scientists, the media and politicians the world over. However, more than 25 years later the losses remain stark: AIDS continues to kill almost 6000 people each day and more than 2 out of 3 HIV positive people still lack access to treatment. While women make up an increasing proportion of those living with HIV and bear a greater burden of care, current AIDS responses do not tackle the violation of women’s rights – a key driver of the pandemic.
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.
This new program approaches health outcomes from the demand side through a multisectoral perspective, looking into mechanisms such as Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs), and Sector Wide Approaches (SWAPs). The course underscores the different roles necessary at each different sector for a multisectoral approach, the need for coordination at the central level, and also alignment of donors with national processes - especially budgets - to ensure harmonization. This course will build capacity for developing multisectoral health outcome strategies, emphasizing that better effective interventions, actions and policies exist and that adaptation to the country situation is critical. The application deadline is 22 February 2008.
The Global Development Network (GDN) has undertaken a research project entitled ‘Promoting Innovative Programs from the Developing World: Towards Realizing the Health Millennium Development Goals in Africa and Asia’. The study involved 20 different health interventions in 20 emerging and developing countries. Each of the studies was carried out by local researchers mentored by an international team of 10 economists and 10 public health officials. The purpose was to use state-of-the-art technology to evaluate the impact of each of these interventions and, in particular, to determine how the more successful ones could be replicated or, scaled up. With the successful completion of the project, the research will be shared with a vast range of stakeholders in workshops around the world.
The Global Equity Gauge Alliance is looking for an Assistant Co-ordinator. The Global Equity Gauge Alliance (GEGA) focuses on fairness in health and access to health care. GEGA's 12 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. The GEGA Secretariat is housed within The Health Systems Trust, a Non-Government Organisation, which is a key role player in facilitating health systems research and development in South Africa.
12-15 November 2002, Arusha, Tanzania
Health research is essential to improve the design of health interventions, policies and service delivery. Every year more than US$ 70 billion is spent on health research and development by the public and private sectors combined. However, only about 10% of this is devoted to 90% of the world's health problems, a misallocation often referred to as the "10/90 gap". Throughout the year and particularly at its annual meeting, the Global Forum for Health Research acts as a marketplace where problems of the 10/90 gap can be examined by a broad range of partners, i.e. representatives from governments, multilateral and bilateral aid agencies, international and national foundations and NGOs, women's organizations, research institutions and universities, pharmaceutical companies and the media. Forum 6 is the sixth annual meeting of the Global Forum for Health Research and the first to be held in Africa. Presentations will address the latest thinking on the 10/90 gap and act as a catalyst for action during the coming year. The global objective is to review progress in helping correct the 10/90 gap and plan further actions. In November 2002, Arusha will be the centre of world attention on health research, with Forum 6 followed by the third MIM Pan-African Malaria Conference. The National Institute for Medical Research of Tanzania is the local partner for the organization of both meetings. For further information and registration, please see the website.