As the conference draws near and many deadlines have already passed, we urge those wishing to attend AIDS 2008 - or submit a satellite, exhibition or affiliated event application - to be aware of the limited time left to do so. Please note that all deadlines from now refer to 24h00 in the country you are submitting from on the given date and that no applications and submissions for any part of the conference will be accepted after this time: 31 March 2008: Satellites applications close; 7 May 2008: Registration late surcharge ends (last minute surcharge begins 8 May), Deadline for registration cancellation (with 50% refund); 15 May 2008: Affiliated Events applications close; 20 May 2008: Late Breaker Abstract submissions open; 31 May 2008: Exhibitions applications close; 16 June 2008: Late Breaker Abstract submissions close.
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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.
ATTN MARCH FOR LIFE July 7 2002 at 4:00pm in Barcelona, Spain. We ask for your and your organization's endorsement of the July 7th 2002 ATTN(AIDS Therapeutic Treatment Now) March to take place in Barcelona, Spain immediately prior to the opening ceremonies of the WorldAIDS Conference. If you are able to do so, please complete the endorsement information and respond via email. GOAL: To secure a global commitment for the treatment of 2 million people living with and dying from HIV/AIDS before the next International AIDS
Conference in Bangkok, Thailand in 2004. Please join us, through your endorsements, your presence in Barcelona on July 7, and through your ongoing contribution and commitment to this struggle for AIDS Therapeutic Treatment Now.
The theme of the upcoming International AIDS Conference in Toronto is TIME TO DELIVER. Toronto can be an innovative, problem-solving gathering that generates action - or - it can be another expensive conference that generates little action or sustainable benefit. Let's make it about ACTION! Together, as a community, let's set the tone of the Toronto conference: AIDS Treatment Now - Time To Deliver! We ask you to please join in sending a clear message to the politicians, policy makers, funders, drug companies, activists and NGOs attending Toronto - and to the world watching: It's TIME TO DELIVER.
This annual event brings together scientists, public health experts, clinicians, epidemiologists and members of the corporate sector. The conference aims to encourage a strategic plan for HIV vaccine research, funding and greater collaboration in the field.
This year’s AIDS Vaccine Conference will be held on 13-16 October 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa. It’s an annual event for the exchange of scientific information relating to HIV vaccine research and development. The annual conference is organised under the aegis of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise and contributes to the goals of the Enterprise by providing a venue for an international exchange of information in HIV vaccine research and development, cross-fertilising scientific areas of research, increasing coordination and communication among international groups and monitoring progress in the field.
As the epidemic is increasingly recognized as a major development problem, more and more countries have begun to integrate HIV/AIDS programmes into their main development instruments. UNAIDS supports these efforts through its work programme "Mainstreaming the response to HIV/AIDS". The programme aims to enable client countries, with support from partner agencies, to develop and include effective materials for combating HIV/AIDS in their development instruments. These instruments include the poverty reduction strategies, debt relief agreements and public sector expenditure frameworks.
Two decades after HIV/AIDS was discovered, it continues to spread across continents, infecting and killing millions and destroying entire communities. Sub-Saharan Africa, which accounts for 11 percent of the total world population, has 70 percent of all HIV/AIDS infections in the world, making it the worst-affected continent. Although one may dispute the alarming figures, the fact remains that HIV/AIDS has had devastating consequences for countries, societies, families and individuals. It is a global crisis and the outlook is worsening, with India, China and Russia projected to be the next centres of the pandemic.
A vacancy for a Health Economist has arisen for the expanding health economics and systems programme, based at the offices of AIHR in Johannesburg. This position will focus on a programme of work evaluating the impact of HIV/AIDS to private businesses in Southern Africa, including the costs and benefits of providing antiretroviral therapy (ART).
The theme of this World Congress is a challenge to Action Learning / Action Research practitioners the world over, whether working in resource rich or more socio-economically challenged contexts, to explain how they are contributing to the creation of a fairer world. The ALARA World Congress 2015 will create a space for dialogue as we ponder questions such as: How do we know we are asking the right questions to promote sustainable learning? How do we capacitate people to address the intricate interplay of social, economic, political and cultural factors that combine to preserve injustice? How do we ensure authentic collaboration between stakeholders across all levels? How do we use AL/AR to forge innovative, sustainable responses to contemporary complex challenges? How do we know we are successful in mediating sustainable change?