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Upcoming Events & Trainings
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02/06/08 - 05/06/08 2008 Medico-Legal Convening in Response to Sexual Violence |
Place: Nairobi, Kenya
This workshop aims at strengthening the medico-legal response to sexual violence through multi-disciplinary collaboration among organisations and partners in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. For more information visit: www.svri.org
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14/11/08 - 17/11/08 11th AWID International Forum on Women's Right's & Development |
Place: Cape Town, South Africa
The Power of Movements - what people without access to power cannot accomplish alone, they can accomplish together through collective action. Up to 1500 women's rights activist from around the world will gather in Cape Town to debate and strategise about how to build stronger women's movements globally. AWID invites you to contribute to this urgent discussion by submitting a proposal to organise a session at the 11th AWID Forum. For more information on the conference and to submit your proposal online please click here.
Important Dates:
28 January 2008 - Submission Deadline
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8/12/08 - 11/12/08 International Conference on AIDS & STIs in Africa |
Place: Dakar, Senegal
The 15th ICASA is designed to encourage the dissemination of recent findings on HIV/AIDS and STIs in Africa. The meeting will act as a framework to facilitate cooperation and exchange and encourage a greater synergy for future activities. For more information in English or French, click here
Important Dates:
November 2007 - Call for abstracts open, scholarship applications open
April 2008 - Deadline for submission for abstracts and scholarship applications
Events & Trainings - 2008
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5/05/08 Advancing Women’s Leadership and Advocacy for AIDS Action |
Place: Nairobi, Kenya
Women Leaders discuss microbicides
On 5th May 2008, the Global Campaign for Microbicides gave a one hour presentation to 24 women leaders drawn from
The session covered microbicides basics, challenges of microbicides development, trial ethics and the role of civil society leadership in the microbicides field. Some of the key issues of concern to the participants included: trial ethics, community literacy about microbicides, participation of vulnerable women in trials, the place of microbicides in the lives of women living with HIV and AIDS, adherence to microbicides products by trial participants, acceptance of gel in communities that practice dry sex and the issue of partial efficacy.
The session provided an opportunity to discuss pertinent community concerns regarding microbicides development.
4/02/08 - 7/02/08 3rd Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights
Place: Abuja, Nigeria
The conference seeked to bring together key actors in the field of Sexual Health and Rights to explore how sexuality has affected and can improve development in Africa, especially when working with women and youth. For more information, click here
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3/02/08 - 7/02/08 11th International Conference of Society for Women and AIDS in Africa (SWAA International) |
Place:
Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoThe conference focused on HIV/AIDS, Gender and Human rights. It targets gender activists, women groups, persons living with HIV, researchers and government representatives among others. For more information visit www.swaaburkina.org
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25/01/08 - 15/02/08 Advancing Women’s Leadership and Advocacy for AIDS Action |
Place: Nairobi, Kenya
This Regional Workshop seeked to develop a cadre of skilled and confident women advocates to provide leadership in preventing the spread and mitigating the effects of AIDS through gender sensitive, community-based HIV/AIDS programs. For more information, visit http://www.cedpa.org/section/training/aids_leadership
Events & Trainings - 2007
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18/10/07 - 19/10/07 Advocates' Consultation on HIV Prevention Trials |
On 18-19 October 2007, the Microbicide Trials Network (MTN) and Population Council convened the Advocates' Consultation on HIV Prevention Trials: Carraguard and VOICE Studies with 25 African advocates in Johannesburg, South Africa. See report in GC News #88 at http://www.global-campaign.org/clientfiles/GCNews88.pdf.
A summary report of the meeting and the key issues, recommendations and action items it elicited is now available! 
Click here!
| 4/07/07 - 7/07/07 International Women's Summit |
Place: Nairobi, Kenya
As part of its larger World Council Meeting (July 1-11), the World YWCA hosted 'The International Women’s Summit on Women’s Leadership and HIV and AIDS' (IWS). This summit brought together over 1,500 women and men from July 4-7, 2007 to develop strategies, skills and partnerships in response to the impact of AIDS on women and girls.
During the Summit, there were several sessions of interest to advocates on new HIV prevention technologies (NPTs) including microbicides.
Sessions:
Workshop: Male and Female Condoms for HIV Prevention for Dual Protection
Session: Female Condoms and More: Expanding Female-Initiated HIV Prevention Methods
Panel Session: Microbicides: An HIV Prevention Option for Women
Town Hall Meeting: Female-Initiated HIV Prevention Options
Workshop: ListenLearnLead on HIV Prevention Options for Women and GirlsSee the complete program for descriptions of the above sessions
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08/06/07 Investing in Gender Equity |
Place: Kampala, Uganda
A group of civil society leaders congregated in Kampala, Uganda to establish a position and make recommendations to the Eighth Commonwealth Women's Affairs Ministers Meeting (8WAMM), which was held later that month, June 11-14th.
Calling on governments to channel more resources toward new female-initiated prevention technologies in the fight against HIV/AIDS, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and the Uganda HIV Vaccine Gender Advisory Committee organized a panel discussion, "Investing in Gender Equity: Ensuring the Development of and Access to New Preventive Technologies." While opening the session, the Ugandan Minister of State for Gender, Ms. Rukia Nakadama, emphasized that, "new and long-term prevention methods are needed, particularly methods that are within the realm of women's control".
Recommendations from the Kampala meeting will be presented for endorsement to a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Uganda in November 2007.
Events & Trainings - 2006
1/12/06 Stepping out in Kenya: World AIDS Day and Human Rights Day
Place: Nairobi, Kenya
The Global Campaign staff in Kenya commemorated both World AIDS Day and Human Rights Day in December with the Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium (KANCO) by setting up an exhibition stand during the national celebrations held at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre.
The Global Campaign presented on Women, HIV/AIDS and Human rights: a focus on microbicides, with an emphasis on the potential impact of microbicides on women's rights, especially those women living in poverty. Through the plenary sessions, the participants were able to discuss their concerns.
| 23/04/06 - 26/04/06 International Women's Summit |
Place: Nairobi, Kenya 
For the first time, this international conference took place in the Global South at Cape Town, South Africa from 23rd to 26th April 2006. Africa was well represented by delegates drawn from different countries in the continent. The conference brought together over 1,000 delegates comprised of scientists, researchers, advocates, community representatives, people living with HIV and other stakeholders. Various speakers described the microbicides landscape and the conference concluded with a call for prioritisation of microbicides development as a “truly global product that would attract usage in both developed and developing countries due to their potential to protect against STIs and HIV infection” - Joy Phumaphi, the Assistant Director Family & Community Health, World Health Organization. The international community was challenged to build capacity for research, prepare countries for access when microbicides become available and increase funding for the field to accelerate development of microbicides. For more information, please click here
Advocacy and Outreach efforts per region
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| NIGERIA |
On 9th June 2006, the Nigerian HIV Vaccine and Microbicide Advocacy Group (NHVMAG) reached over 100 medical women in Nigeria during the Medical Women Association of Nigeria's ordinary general meeting. All those present received resource materials which introduced them to microbicide and HIV vaccine issues. On 24th June, NHVMAG attended a gathering of over 220 resident doctors from all over Nigeria and held a two hour session with the doctors to discuss microbicide and HIV vaccine issues. The event generated a great deal of interest in the microbicide research and development process, and a principal investigator of an ongoing microbicide trial was on hand to answer questions.
NHVMAG also reached out to people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) at two programmes. It participated in a nationally organised candlelight memorial programme to discuss about microbicide and HIV vaccine and the roles for PLWHA in the research and development process. The organisation also partnered with the National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS through the African Council of AIDS Services Organiations supported ATPP programme to build skills of over 20 PLWHAs with respect to NPT issues. This in turn has been yielding results as a PLWHA reported discussing about NPT during one of her organised television programmes in her state following the training. The response has always been overwhelming. NHVMAG hopes to reach out to communities of medical students, women, men, sex workers, clinical trial participants and a host of others during the coming year. – Adopted from AMAG e-forum (posted by Morenike Ukpong)