Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) invites all interested parties to attend a satellite meeting on the impact of the health care worker shortage on access to HIV/AIDS treatment and lessons learned from clinicians and advocates working on the ground to overcome this gap. Date: August 3, 2008, 9am - 1pm. Venue: Melia Reforma Hotel, Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City, Mexico.
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Mind the gaps: AIDS treatment in the context of health care worker shortages
A Médecins Sans Frontières satellite meeting at the XVII International AIDS Conference, Mexico City 2008
Mistra Urban Futures Annual International Conference 2017
13 – 15 November, Imperial Hotel Kisumu, Kisumu, Kenya
Mistra Urban Futures Annual International Conference is taking place from 13 to 15 November 2017 in Kisumu, Kenya under the banner "Realising Just Cities - Learning Through Comparison". The rapidly growing number of people moving into cities all over the world also present a challenge of unprecedented size. It is crucial to find ways to make urbanisation a source for wealth, health and sustainability – which is shared. Mistra Urban Futures arranges yearly a conference about Realising Just Cities. This year’s conference focuses on learning through comparison covering themes such as transportation, urban food, waste management, migration, participatory cities, neighbourhood transformation and cultural heritage.
Mobile HIV/AIDS Health Clinic Design Competition
Submit entries by November 1, 2002
New York, NY (May 1, 2002) -- Architecture for Humanity, a non-profit organization that promotes architecture and design solutions to global, social
and humanitarian crises, announces its 2002 International Design Competition. For this year's competition, participants are asked to develop designs for a fully equipped, mobile, medical unit and HIV/AIDS treatment center specifically for use in Africa. "Architects and designers have not only an opportunity," said Frank Gehry, Architecture for Humanity advisory board member, "but a professional obligation to help to end this crisis. We need to employ the same caliber of design talent and innovative use of materials we use in commercial projects to create a viable solution to the HIV/AIDS epidemic." The deadline for design submissions is November 1, 2002. There is a $35 entry fee which will be waived for submissions from developing countries. Contact Cameron Sinclair, Executive Director/Founder. Phone: 1 646 654 0906 or via email.
Further details: /newsletter/id/29179
Mobilising Civil Society around an Alternative World Health Report
Global Health Watch Update
Plans for the Global Health Watch 2007-2008 (GHW2) are underway which include a move of the secretariat to the Global Equity Gauge Alliance (GEGA) office at the Health Systems Trust in South Africa in October. The secretariat will be led by Antionette Ntuli and Bridget Lloyd of GEGA with the support of David Sanders from the University of the Western Cape. Thanks to Medact for hosting the GHW1 secretariat for the last two years. The GHW2 will be coordinated by a coalition of GEGA, Medact and the People's Health Movement (PHM) together with a new partner - the Health Research and Consultancy Centre (CEAS) based in Quito, Ecuador.
Further details: /newsletter/id/31139
Mobilising the resources in the Diaspora
21st and 22nd March 2006, London, United Kingdom
Mobilising the resources in the Diaspora (African's based outside their country of origin) in a constructive and structured manner will result in innovative and practical solutions that will be of added value to Africa’s Healthcare enabling Africa to address its capacity to meet the related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). For African's in the United Kingdom, United States and other parts of the world, it is important to register online even if you don't plan to attend the event. This is because, the greater the percentage of healthcare professionals in Diaspora who are registered, will ensure that key decision makers are monitoring the event, as well as policy makers involved in these programmes, will have confidence in developing partnerships with African Diaspora to add value to the many ongoing efforts. This will provide an avenue for those of us not yet actively involved to participate in Africa’s healthcare development.
Further details: /newsletter/id/31273
Contact: healthcare@africarecruit.com
Monitoring and Evaluation for Sexual and Reproductive Health
01 - 12 November, 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/30619
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
MPhil in Inclusive Innovation
Call for Applications: Deadline 1 November 2015
The University of Cape Town (UCT) Graduate School of Business is now inviting applications to its pioneering MPhil specialising in Inclusive Innovation in 2016 – a hands-on postgraduate degree that aims to generate practical and scalable sustainable solutions to African challenges. Inclusive innovators who take this learning journey will travel through a rigorous academic curriculum right through to practical prototyping of new business models, processes, services or products that will help create a more inclusive economy and society at large. You will work together in a “living lab” environment, where expertise, life experience, passion and innovation all converge to support new possibilities and ideas. In this rich, integrative space, commercial, technological and social innovations all combine to further Africa’s future. You will also be exposed to some of the most exciting thinkers and practitioners working in the field of social innovation and entrepreneurship at this time. Applicants should be passionate and creative individuals who have a postgraduate degree, work experience, and a passion for a better, more inclusive future.
MPhil in Public Mental Health: Call for Applications
Deadline for Applications 1 September 2017
The Alan J. Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health (CPMH), a joint initiative of the Psychology Department at Stellenbosch University and the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town, is an independent inter-disciplinary academic research and teaching centre for public mental health promotion and service development in Africa. The CPMH is proud to invite applications from across the African continent for the MPhil in Public Mental Health in 2018. A key gap in current mental health professional training in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa is an orientation to public mental health. This means an orientation to the mental health needs of populations, and the policies, laws and services that are required to meet those needs. The training offered by the Centre provides clinicians, health service managers, policy makers and NGO workers with crucial skills to enable them to plan and evaluate the services that they deliver and manage; lobby effectively for mental health; take on leadership roles in the strengthening of mental health systems; and conduct research in various aspects of public mental health in Africa. The MPhil in Public Mental Health is a part-time research degree that aims to develop advanced research skills, enabling participants to undertake their own research projects (such as evaluating services, policies and interventions) as well as interpret research findings for mental health policy and practice. The programme is designed to be accessible to practitioners who work full-time, and who are from a range of backgrounds: social work, psychology, psychiatry, medicine, occupational therapy, nursing, health economics, public mental health, public health, health service management, policy making and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The training aims to build the professional capacity and leadership of the participants in their work, while contributing to knowledge generation in Africa. The degree requires the completion of a 3-week residential training module in research methodology for public mental health in Cape Town and the preparation of a dissertation of a minimum of 20 000 words, in either monograph or publication ready format.
MPhil in Public Mental Health: Call for Applications
Deadline for Applications 1 September 2017
The Alan J. Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health (CPMH), a joint initiative of the Psychology Department at Stellenbosch University and the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at the University of Cape Town, is an independent inter-disciplinary academic research and teaching centre for public mental health promotion and service development in Africa. The CPMH is proud to invite applications from across the African continent for the MPhil in Public Mental Health in 2018. A key gap in current mental health professional training in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa is an orientation to public mental health. This means an orientation to the mental health needs of populations, and the policies, laws and services that are required to meet those needs. The training offered by the Centre provides clinicians, health service managers, policy makers and NGO workers with crucial skills to enable them to plan and evaluate the services that they deliver and manage; lobby effectively for mental health; take on leadership roles in the strengthening of mental health systems; and conduct research in various aspects of public mental health in Africa. The MPhil in Public Mental Health is a part-time research degree that aims to develop advanced research skills, enabling participants to undertake their own research projects (such as evaluating services, policies and interventions) as well as interpret research findings for mental health policy and practice. The programme is designed to be accessible to practitioners who work full-time, and who are from a range of backgrounds: social work, psychology, psychiatry, medicine, occupational therapy, nursing, health economics, public mental health, public health, health service management, policy making and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The training aims to build the professional capacity and leadership of the participants in their work, while contributing to knowledge generation in Africa. The degree requires the completion of a 3-week residential training module in research methodology for public mental health in Cape Town and the preparation of a dissertation of a minimum of 20 000 words, in either monograph or publication ready format.