"The BMJ plans a theme issue for September 2005 "by, for, and about" Africa, to deal exclusively with the region's problems and, more importantly, offer solutions. We will discuss a wide range of health challenges such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, violence against women, and maternal and child health, as well as emerging challenges such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes."
Jobs and Announcements
Insitute on Health, Politics And Society in Africa
Access and Equity in African Health Systems, Call for Application, 2005
As part of on-going programme innovation and expansion, CODESRIA in 2004 launched an institute on Health, Politics and Society in Africa in a bid to promote an enhanced interest in multidisciplinary health research among African scholars. The initiative flows from the current CODESRIA strategic plan which has placed a considerable emphasis on the promotion of social science approaches to health studies in Africa and a structured dialogue between the Social Sciences and the Health/Biomedical Sciences.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30878
Job advert: International Health Policy Researcher
The applicant will mainly be working with Wim Van Damme, professor in public health in a research project on the big players in international health policies, with a particular focus on the role of public - private partnerships (PPPs), especially the Global Fund. Our aim is to understand and document the effects of PPPs and other funding initiatives on the health systems of low-income countries, especially on those hardest hit by HIV/AIDS. The recent research has mainly focussed on Human Resources for Health (HRH) as a major bottleneck for scaling up ART in Southern Africa.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30896
Malaria Prevention, Control and Management Course
The AMREF Directorate of Learning Systems is pleased to announce the Malaria Prevention, Control and Management Course. The main objective of this course is to provide an up-date in clinical management, prevention and control of Malaria through the acquisition of knowledge and practical skills.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30862
Panos/Stop TB Media Fellowships
The Panos Global AIDS Programme and Stop TB Partnership invite print and photo journalists from India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Zambia, Ethiopia, Malawi and Haiti to apply for a fellowship to write/photograph issues around TB, and TB & HIV/AIDS. Fellowships will run from June to October 2005. Each fellowship will involve working closely with the Panos Global AIDS Programme, the Stop TB Partnership and a panel of experts on TB and communication in TB and/or HIV/AIDS in the countries specified.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30859
Strengthening Africa's role in health research
The African Health Research Forum (AfHRF), an organization which proposes to put African health research higher up on the continent's agenda, was launched at the November 2002 annual meeting of the Global Forum for Health Research held in Arusha, Tanzania, the first time this Forum was held in Africa. AfHRF's overall objective is to promote health research for development in Africa and strengthen the African voice in setting and implementing the global research agenda, according to their website. The AfHRF is in the early stages of encouraging the convergence of national, regional and global efforts in health research toward the goal of creating "a research agenda developed and owned by Africa" and to "strengthen the African voice in setting and implementing the global research agenda".
Call for papers
Are you interested in conducting Participatory Action Research (PAR)?
SOMA-Net with support from Sida/SAREC has an ongoing project focusing on the social cultural aspects of HIV/Aids and the youth. This is part of a long term research based in Kenya and Uganda.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30814
Reproductive Health resources from RHRC Consortium
The Reproductive Health Response in Conflict (RHRC) Consortium is pleased to announce the publication of two new resources, HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control: A Short Course for Humanitarian Workers Facilitator’s Manual and Guidelines for the Care of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Conflict-affected Settings. Developed by the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children on behalf of the RHRC Consortium, these resources aim to assist field-based clinical care staff and humanitarian workers in the prevention, care, and control of HIV/AIDS and STIs in conflict and post-conflict settings.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30831
Researcher/Associate Researcher
Aids Law Project
The AIDS Law Project, a grant funded unit at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, has contract posts for up to two years for a researcher (based in Johannesburg) and a researcher/associate researcher (based in Cape Town) in its Law & Treatment Access Unit (LTAU) from 1 April 2005 or as soon as possible thereafter. These are challenging positions and the successful applicants must be able to work quickly, under pressure and as part of a team.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30830
Southern African Regional Gender Mainstreaming Symposium
5 - 7 April 2005, Orion Hotel – Mbabane, Swaziland: Call for Resource Persons/Facilitators
Why is it that almost a decade after ratifying and acceding the Beijing and Dakar Platforms for Action, after the Convention of Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, engendering processes of the Millennium Development Goals, Maputo Declaration on Gender Mainstreaming , SADC Declaration on Gender and Development and various other treaties and conventions, southern African countries continue to battle with: gender power imbalances, gender based violence, gender based stigma and discrimination, feminization of poverty and ultimately feminization of the HIV/AIDS epidemic? SAfAIDS is hosting a southern African Regional Gender Mainstreaming Symposium in Swaziland from 5 - 7 April 2005. The link below also includes a call for participants.
Further details: /newsletter/id/30851