The forum brings together researchers, gender activists, funders, policy makers, service providers, practitioners and survivors from around the world and will showcase innovation to end sexual violence, intimate partner violence and child abuse, and strengthen responses to survivors in low and middle income countries. The SVRI Forum is a key platform for sharing research, innovation and networking. SVRI Forum 2015 will focus debate on the following key questions: What are the intersections of different forms of gender-based and other forms of violence across the lifespan and why do they matter? What social norms are related to sexual violence and intimate partner violence, child abuse and neglect and how do we change them? How should we evaluate social norm change interventions and other forms of prevention? How can we integrate prevention and responses to violence into other sectors including health, education, social development, sports and justice sectors? If we know it works, what does it cost and how do we scale up effective programs? What works to prevent or respond to sexual violence in conflict, post conflict and humanitarian settings?
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SEYCOHAIDS 2012 is the largest international gathering for young people on HIV and AIDS in the Eastern and Southern Africa region, where young researchers, policy makers, activists, educators and people living with HIV will be able to link with people in other countries and meet to share and learn about HIV prevention methods, treatments, care policies and programmes relating to HIV and AIDS in Africa. The broad objectives for the Conference are to: ensure effective and meaningful youth participation in international AIDS response; identify gaps and challenges in government policies in providing youth-friendly HIV and AIDS services; develop regional and country-level strategic programmes for youth and HIV and AIDS; identify and build the capacity of new and emerging youth leaders for the AIDS response to ensure sustainability of youth initiatives at the national, regional and international levels; sustain adult-youth partnerships and dialogue; develop the Southern and Eastern Africa youth network on HIV and AIDS; develop country specific youth networks on HIV and AIDS; establish funding mechanisms for regional and country youth networks; and monitor government and donor commitments to youth and HIV and AIDS.
The Society for Family Health (SFH) is a South African affiliate of Population Services International (PSI), an international NGO network operational in over 70 countries. SFH in South Africa concentrates on issues of HIV/ AIDS. As part of their HIV/AIDS control efforts, SFH is using social marketing to motivate behaviour change with respect to consistent condom use, HIV testing and other safer behaviours. The duties and responsibilities include project management, monitoring and evaluation, supervision, coordination and relationship management, managing budgets and reporting. The successful candidate will be a creative, innovative and strategic thinker, and will have: excellent communication, analytical, organisational, interpersonal and cross-cultural skills; a strong interest in private sector approaches to development; and a proven ability to produce results and meet objectives under difficult circumstances.
In this session at the Global Symposium for Health Systems Research participants will share evidence and learning from a multi-country Shaping health consortium on social participation in local health systems. The session will also use participatory approaches to draw on the experiences of those participating. Experiences in Shaping Health show how social participation and power can make health systems more holistic in approach, more responsive and more inclusive. Participants will discuss and draw recommendations on practices that ground health action and services within community cultures and systems, what challenges they face, and how to facilitate and encourage such practice. The session is open for registration, but there are a limited number of places. See the website for further details on how to register .
Where There Is No Doctor is a health care manual for health workers, clinicians, and others involved in primary health care delivery and health promotion programmes around the world. An independent consulting team is conducting market research to develop a new version of the book to better meets the needs of health care workers around the world. Your feedback will help create the new version. You will be asked general questions about what kind of health information you need, where you look for health information, and your opinions of Where There Is No Doctor, if you have used the book in the past. We are interested in hearing from people who have used Where There Is No Doctor in the past and from people who have not used the book. The survey should take about 20 minutes to complete.
Are you interested in international health policies? If so, you might like to know about the Institute of Tropical Medicine’s (ITM) short course on health policy and strategic management, which we take place for the fourth time in 2010 in Antwerp. The course lasts eight weeks from 1 March till 23 April 2010. The aim of this course is to empower participants to play an active role in the development of public health policies in developing countries. The target group for this course are professionals involved in policy formulation and implementation at regional, national or international level working in health care, supervising, regulating or advocacy organisations or institutions (government or non-governmental). A limited number of fellowships are still available. You can look at the brochure online by using the link provided here.
WHO is looking for people with experience in descriptive epidemiology and analysis to work on the Global Burden of Disease 2000 project. This project involves systematic reviews of available data and epidemiological studies on specific diseases, development of disease models for ensuring consistency of mortality data with other epidemiological data, and the preparation of reports and publications. Please send curriculum vitae to Dr. Colin Mathers, Acting Coordinator, Epidemiology and Burden of Disease, World Health Organization.
Help stop the global food crisis with Oxfam's new campaign, GROW. Spiraling prices have driven many millions more into poverty already. This crisis threatens to worsen in future. Oxfam calls on governments to act urgently to stabilise the food markets by agreeing on rules for transparency and responsibility, stopping excessive speculation and other abuses, reforming flawed policies turning grain into biofuels, and increasing investment in food security and climate adaptation in developing countries. To sign the petition, visit the link provided.
The goal of this petition is to get 10 million signatures (globally) in 10 years and to moblise support to force world leaders to implement anti-poverty policy changes. Ten solutions are proposed to end poverty. Full equality between men and women, a worldwide minimum wage of $20 per day and the end of child labour are proposed, as well as guarantees of shelter, healthcare, education, food and drinking water as basic human rights. Land redistribution, an end to private monopoly ownership over natural resources, the termination of intellectual property rights on pharmaceutical drugs and the cancellation of third world debt are also mentioned. Total transparency is demanded for any corporation with more than 100 employees and a 1% tax on all benefits distributed to shareholders of corporations to create unemployment funds. Other solutions include the termination of tax havens around the world, cancellation of taxes on labour and basic consumption while introducing global taxes, equal voting for developing countries in international organisations such as the IMF, and a commitment by industrialised countries to decrease carbon emission by 50% over a ten-year period, as well as reducing by 25% each developed country’s consumption of natural resources.
Medicins sans Frontieres has launched its campaign ‘Europe! Hands off our medicine’ to fight against legislative changes that could see the supply of generic drugs from India and other countries shut down or significantly reduced. This is an appeal to you to sign the petition and distribute it as widely as possible in your country and networks. Millions of people in developing countries rely on affordable generic medicines to stay alive. More than 80% of the medicines used by MSF to treat AIDS across the developing world are produced in India. But the European Commission (EC) is now launching an attack on affordable medicines by pushing for unfair legislation to govern the production, registration, transportation and exportation of generic medicines. This legislation makes no clear distinction between fake drugs and genuine generics. People who need generics could face shortages and may die if they need are life-saving drugs. Negotiations are ongoing between the European Union and India, and MSF wants to use this petition to draw the attention to this problematic issue and send a message to the EC Trade Commissioner, Karel De Gucht, and European Union governments, calling on him to put a halt to Europe’s destructive trade policies and to commit to an agenda that will offer access to medicines for all. To sign on, click on the link given here.