International AIDS Conferences bring together 20,000 people from around the world to create important capacity-building opportunities for researchers and communities. This event showcases local lessons and achievements from around the world and provides the opportunity for dialogue and partnership building between science and the global community of persons living with HIV/AIDS.
The Canadian Scholarship Programme aims to support Canadian residents who would not otherwise be able to attend the Conference. The International Scholarship Programme is open to international residents including Canadians working abroad. The CIHR Institute of Infection and Immunity (CIHR-III), through the Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS in Canada, intends to support Canadian researchers and trainees through these scholarship programs that have a conference abstract accepted.
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The ACTS programme takes place under the joint auspices of the International Centre of Nonviolence at Durban University of Technology (DUT) and Grace to Heal, an NGO based in Bulawayo. It is taught by a highly skilled and experienced team, with both local and international staff. This practical programme is offered part-time over 2-2.5 years. Stage one involves three coursework modules, each of which requires up to 10 days residence in Bulawayo, plus guided study at home. Subject to satisfactory progress, students may proceed to stage two, a thesis based on action research. This involves two further residential sessions after formal registration at Durban University of Technology. The final qualification is a Master’s Degree in Management Sciences (MManSc). The programme is closely associated with the ACTS programme for Asia, based at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The procedure is for people to make a formal application for the course by filling in the forms, and attach a request for scholarship support. Information can be obtained at the email address below.
Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) Masters program inform that for a number of KIT courses there are scholarships available from the Netherlands Fellowship Programme (NFP). The courses are: Master in Public Health, Master in Public Health, track in Sexual and Reproductive Health; Master in Public Health, track in HIV and AIDS and E-learning short course: Health Systems Strengthening and HIV. Applicants must apply at KIT for admission to the course. Apply for the NFP Scholarship separately at Nuffic: Go for details on the scholarship and list of NFP countries to: www.nuffic.nl/nfp Application deadline: 4th of February 2014.
The School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape has an international reputation as a leading research and teaching institution. It provides health and welfare personnel from developing countries with the opportunity to enhance their capacity to build and strengthen the health sector in their countries. Its open learning postgraduate programme, offering multiple entry and exit points, is unique in Southern Africa. Its educational and research activities focus on the implementation of district health systems. The posts advertised are for a Senior Lecturer and for a Lecturer. The closing date for applications is 30 September 2007.
The Second Access to Healthcare in Africa Conference will concentrate on challenges to quality, product availability, access and management in effective health care, with a focus on HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Participants will be able to share their experiences in health care management with their peers while tapping into the knowledge and insight of experts in this field. Topics include the current global recession, donor’s responses and the challenge to make choices regarding accessibility, quality control, efficiency efficacy and health economics around health intervention programmes. These issues are not addressed properly at the global conferences but they are the difference between success and failure of the intervention at ground level. The Conference aims to put those topics on the table for discussion. Key international speakers will introduce each theme, followed by a high-level interactive panel and participant discussion.
The conference will bring together stakeholders interested in the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research in Africa. The conference is expected to be all embracing of all institutions, networks and alliances and would be widely disseminated through AFRONETS, AFAIDS and other dissemination channels. All interested stakeholders are urged to distribute the announcement of this meeting. The outcome of the African Conference should be of specific interest to researchers and policymakers who would like to promote SAHARA within the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD).
The Second African Local Summit 2013, which is being organised by a Ghanaian based non-governmental organisation, will take a look at the Africa’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2015. The theme is: “Sustainable Development Goals and Africa beyond 2015: The Role of African Diaspora”. The summit aims to develop policies and programmes necessary for understanding the complexities and practical implications of the Africa Diaspora in socio-economic development and to foster appropriate relations between international development actors. The proposed outcome is to develop policies and programmes necessary of understanding the complexities and practical implications of the Africa Diaspora in socio-economic development of Africa and also foster appropriate relations between International Development Actors and the Africa Diaspora in the Post 2015 process. Moreover, the summit shall seek to advocate, promote and strengthen the Africa Diasporas role in development by creating a window of opportunity for engagement.
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) is soliciting nominations for the second annual Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in Field Research. The 2016 award will be given to a young female researcher who is a citizen of a sub-Saharan African country in order to recognise and honour outstanding achievement in the fields of gender and empowerment of women and girls. The 2016 Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in Field Research will be conferred to the winner at the launch of ICRW’s Africa Regional Office in December in Kampala, Uganda. Nominations must be made by a third-party. The 2016 award will again be given as part of ICRW’s annual Champions for Change awards, which honours the work of thought-leaders and visionaries. The award will provide the recipient recognition and bring greater visibility to the researcher’s work and to the populations on which they focus. At the awards ceremony, the recipient of the award will have the opportunity to present in front of an esteemed global audience, comprising those in the development, business, NGO, and government sectors, and will receive opportunities to promote their research.
The Second Conference of the African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) will be held in Saly Portudal (Palm Beach), Senegal from 15-17 March 2011. The overall theme of this conference is ‘Toward universal health coverage in Africa’. Universal coverage is understood to mean providing financial protection against health care costs for all, as well as ensuring access to quality health care for all when needed.
The Second Conference of the African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) will be held in Saly Portudal (Palm Beach), Senegal from 15-17 March 2011. The overall theme of this conference is ‘Toward universal health coverage in Africa’. Universal coverage is understood to mean providing financial protection against health care costs for all, as well as ensuring access to quality health care for all when needed.