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Calendar 2006
GC EUROPE EVENTS AND MEETINGS
January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August September – October – November - December
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14 January |
ACTSA Conference |
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Co-hosted by Interact. “In Her Mother’s Shoes” Exhibit displayed. |
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6 – 7 March |
International Conference “What about sex?” |
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Deals with sex and sexuality and how to incorporate this into policies and programmes on SRHR. Organised by WPF. 3 banners of the exhibit displayed during both days. |
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6 – 7 March |
The 9th Annual CHAPS Conference |
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For providers and commissioners of HIV health promotion services for gay men. Organised by the Terrence Higgins Trust. Rectal microbicides advocacy workshop. |
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8 March |
International Women’s Day |
Global |
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12-14 March |
Global Campaign |
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The meeting will seek to strengthen the regional advocacy effort and generate action plans and strategies. |
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20 March |
What do we do about…MICROBICIDES? |
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To bring together key workers within African community organisations to discuss the issue of microbicides and its implications for African communities in the Funded by GCM. Presentation by Arwa Meijer. |
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30 March |
MTV event, 9th National Spanish AIDS Conference |
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The symposium will be on the Microbicides-Access to Treatment-Vaccines (MTV) approach and will serve to develop awareness on the need to build a comprehensive response to the HIV pandemic. Organised by GTT. GCM will fund and attend this meeting. |
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23-26 April |
Microbicides 2006 |
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The bi-annual scientific conference on microbicides science: GCM will hold a pre-conference workshop. |
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18 – 25 April |
European Commission, |
Organised in collaboration with the Human and Social Development Unit within DG Development | |
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18 – 19 May |
National African |
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The conference will focus on HIV prevention, treatment and care within African communities. It will include expert papers, workshops and skill-building sessions. Organised by AHPN. |
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30 - 31 May |
Conference on migrant health |
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Exhibit “In Her Mother’s Shoes” will be displayed |
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2006 HIV/AIDS UNGASS Review |
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The high-level meeting will take place on June 2, where a short political declaration reaffirming commitment to the DoC will be adopted. The first two days of the meeting will be technical in nature, and will include an interactive hearing with civil society, roundtables, panel discussions and plenary sessions. | |
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6 – 9 June |
EURONGOS Annual Meeting |
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This two-day event will focus on the role of the enlarged EU in advancing the ICPD agenda internationally. There will be a microbicides session given by GCM and IPM. |
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2 June |
Irish NGO Microbicides Training Day |
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Organised by Cairde in cooperation with GCM |
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15 June |
Irish AIDS Day |
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15 – 18 June |
The 12th International Congress on Infectious Diseases |
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16 – 23 June |
ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly Session |
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Liaising with co-president MEP, Glenys Kinnock to display “In Her Mother’s Shoes” Exhibit. |
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21 June |
14th International Symposium on HIV and Emerging Infectious Diseases (ISHEID) |
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http://www.isheid.com/index.html ‘Challenges in Microbicides Development’ session |
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13- 16 August |
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GNP+ and ICW are co-organisers of this conference. http://www.aids2006.org/ | |
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19 – 21 Oct. |
22nd Conference on Sexually Transmitted Infections |
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Diagnostic Tests; Epidemiological Reporting; Epidemiological Research; Hepatitis Prevention; HIV/AIDS Prevention; International Health Policies; STD Prevention |
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Oct tbc |
Exhibit “In Her Mother’s Shoes” |
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At the Dutch Parliament |
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6 – 10 Nov. |
Exhibit “In Her Mother’s Shoes” |
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In the European Parliament |
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1 Dec. |
World Aids Day |
Global |
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