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пятница, 19 марта 2010 г.
Vienna AIDS Conference
"Eastern Europe in Spotlight at Vienna AIDS Conference"
Agence France Presse (03.10.10)
In Vienna on Wednesday, UNAIDS chief Michel Sidibe previewed the 18th International AIDS Conference being held there this summer. "AIDS 2010 will be the conference for people without a voice," he said at a press briefing. "The rapidly growing HIV/AIDS epidemics in Eastern Europe, fueled primarily by unsafe injecting drug use, are topics under the spotlight at AIDS 2010," to be held July 18-23, UNAIDS and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a joint statement.
Vienna is a gateway to Eastern Europe and Central Asia - regions where HIV prevalence has nearly doubled since 2001, largely due to unsafe drug injection. An estimated 1.5 million people are living with HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. By holding the conference in the Austrian capital, organizers hope to highlight the regions' marginalized groups like drug users, said Robin Gorna, head of the International AIDS Society. "To break the trajectory of the HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe, we must stop new infections among injecting drug users and their partners," Sidibe said. "People who use drugs have a right to access the best possible options for prevention, care, and treatment."
"We can and must reverse the HIV epidemic, first of all by preventing the spread of drug use, and then by providing treatment to addicts. In this comprehensive program, HIV-targeted measures include providing clean injecting equipment, opioid substitution, and antiretroviral therapy," said UNODC head Antonio Maria Costa.
For more information on the conference, visit www.aids2010.org.
CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update Thursday, March 11, 2010
Agence France Presse (03.10.10)
In Vienna on Wednesday, UNAIDS chief Michel Sidibe previewed the 18th International AIDS Conference being held there this summer. "AIDS 2010 will be the conference for people without a voice," he said at a press briefing. "The rapidly growing HIV/AIDS epidemics in Eastern Europe, fueled primarily by unsafe injecting drug use, are topics under the spotlight at AIDS 2010," to be held July 18-23, UNAIDS and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in a joint statement.
Vienna is a gateway to Eastern Europe and Central Asia - regions where HIV prevalence has nearly doubled since 2001, largely due to unsafe drug injection. An estimated 1.5 million people are living with HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. By holding the conference in the Austrian capital, organizers hope to highlight the regions' marginalized groups like drug users, said Robin Gorna, head of the International AIDS Society. "To break the trajectory of the HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe, we must stop new infections among injecting drug users and their partners," Sidibe said. "People who use drugs have a right to access the best possible options for prevention, care, and treatment."
"We can and must reverse the HIV epidemic, first of all by preventing the spread of drug use, and then by providing treatment to addicts. In this comprehensive program, HIV-targeted measures include providing clean injecting equipment, opioid substitution, and antiretroviral therapy," said UNODC head Antonio Maria Costa.
For more information on the conference, visit www.aids2010.org.
CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update Thursday, March 11, 2010
вторник, 5 января 2010 г.
Lambeth Conference
all mainline churches opposed contraception until the Anglicans broke with tradition at the Lambeth Conference of 1930. Only then did others follow suit.
Surely Sanger must have remembered how Pope Pius XI wrote the famous Encyclical Castii Connubii (On Christian Marriage) four months after the Lambeth Conference of 1930, wherein he states that the teaching against contraception was “uninterrupted Christian tradition” (see paragraph 56 in the document).
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четверг, 2 апреля 2009 г.
c4p
Call for Papers on Family Planning and HIV
With partial support from USAID, Family Health International and the Imperial College London are collaborating with the journal AIDS to produce a supplemental issue dedicated to family planning and HIV. We are pleased to issue a call for papers for this special issue. Manuscripts are due May 1, 2009.
Submissions may include but are not limited to biomedical research on the safety and effectiveness of contraceptive methods for women with HIV, behavioral research on the contraceptive practices and fertility desires of women and couples with HIV, evaluations of service-delivery approaches for integrating family planning and HIV services, and policy and programmatic case studies of efforts to integrate these services.
AIDS publishes the latest research on HIV and AIDS and has the highest impact of all AIDS-related journals. This special issue will increase attention to evidence-based strategies for integrating services and meeting the unique reproductive health needs of women and couples with HIV.
For more information about the supplement and how you can contribute, see:
http://tinyurl.com/ah46mt.
With partial support from USAID, Family Health International and the Imperial College London are collaborating with the journal AIDS to produce a supplemental issue dedicated to family planning and HIV. We are pleased to issue a call for papers for this special issue. Manuscripts are due May 1, 2009.
Submissions may include but are not limited to biomedical research on the safety and effectiveness of contraceptive methods for women with HIV, behavioral research on the contraceptive practices and fertility desires of women and couples with HIV, evaluations of service-delivery approaches for integrating family planning and HIV services, and policy and programmatic case studies of efforts to integrate these services.
AIDS publishes the latest research on HIV and AIDS and has the highest impact of all AIDS-related journals. This special issue will increase attention to evidence-based strategies for integrating services and meeting the unique reproductive health needs of women and couples with HIV.
For more information about the supplement and how you can contribute, see:
http://tinyurl.com/ah46mt.
суббота, 14 марта 2009 г.
Call4Papers
From: Iris Borowy iris.borowy@uni-rostock.de
Call for Papers
Network of Health of the European Social Science History Association Conference (ESSHC), at Ghent, Belgium, 13 - 16 April 2010.
Proposals are invited for panels or individual papers of any subject dealing with the social history of health. While individual papers are welcome, panels consisting of three or - preferably - four contributors and one chair and discussant (who can be the same person) have a higher chance of being accepted. We particularly encourage panels organised around a central theme with papers covering different perspectives on this theme, especially those with comparative approach, bringing together contributions on different regions and / or time periods. Panel participants should come from different institutes and preferably from different countries. We reserve the right to re-arrange panels and contributors as appears necessary in view of the incoming applications.
Suggestions are particularly encouraged on the topics listed below. But proposals on other topics are very welcome as well.
1. Global Health - Possible sub-themes: travels of disease; the ecological imperialism revisited; globalisation; plague, cholera, Aids, SARS .
2. Temporary health issues: the emergence and disappearance of perceived medical topics.
3. Occupational Health - including injuries, insurance, long-term health hazards .
4. Health as Commodity - Themes: developments of the market for medication, health foods and other health products; interaction between physicians, scientists and businessmen
5. Health in numbers - presenting ways of interpreting historical health data, either as case studies or from a theoretical point of view.
6. Nutrition as Health Factor - how has it interacted with cultural, economic and ideological aspects?
7. Health and warfare - how has health interacted with the - historically common - situation of warfare (war injuries, blockades, bacteriological warfare.)?
8. Health and normality - how have common conceptions changed about healthy, normal, sub-normal or pathological conditions?
9. Health in non-Western societies - addressing themes of health and medicine in societies outside of Europe and non-indigenous North America and Australia.
10. History of health as interdisciplinary project - room for overlap and cooperation with medicine, biology, economics, political science .
Panel chairs can also act as discussants. Discussants have an important role in stimulating discussions, which should take up a substantial part of the panel time. They can identify central issues of the papers, point of similarities and differences, raise individual or general questions or otherwise broaden the perspective on the overall themes of the panels
The deadline is May 1, 2009.
Visit http://www.iisg.nl/esshc for:
a.. General information on the biannual conferences
b.. The organising institution
c.. Registration (including paper proposal procedures)
For questions, suggestions etc., please write to: Enrique Perdiguero-Gil: quique@umh.es and/or Iris Borowy: iris.borowy@uni-rostock.de
list of contacts to subject networks by topic
четверг, 13 ноября 2008 г.
Housing is HIV Prevention and Care
The US National AIDS Housing Coalition (NAHC), working in collaboration with the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN) and the Department of Health, Behavior and Society of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, announces the fourth Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit, a meeting of leading health, housing and social service researchers and policy makers. The Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit series is an interdisciplinary, interactive forum for the presentation of research findings on the relationship of housing status and HIV prevention and care, coupled with dialogue on public policy implications and strategies among researchers, policy makers, and providers and consumers of HIV housing and services. The theme of Summit IV is Examining the Evidence: The Impact of Housing on HIV Prevention and Care, and the conveners invite abstracts presenting the results of scientific research, program evaluation, community-based interventions, and public policy strategies that reflect this theme. Both research and policy abstracts are encouraged, and abstracts may be submitted for oral or poster presentations.
North America Housing and HIV/AIDS Research Summit Mobilizing Knowledge: Housing is HIV Prevention and Care
For more information contact NAHC, E-mail: nahc@nationalaidshousing.org; Phone: (202) 347-0333; Fax: (202) 347-3411; or access the Web site: http://nationalaidshousing.org/2008/08/save-the-date/суббота, 8 декабря 2007 г.
c4p
The Brandeis Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on "Metamorphoses: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Processes of Social Change and Transformation", organized by the graduate students of the Anthropology Department of Brandeis University (MA), is accepting abstracts for the conference to be held on Saturday, April 5, 2008.
Metamorphosis is a multi-faceted concept first and foremost referring to the transformation of form, function and perception, which makes it highly useful as a way of bringing together different approaches to the study of social change. This change can take place on the level of form or structure of individual bodies, identities, or larger social groupings such as communities, ethnicities, nations, states. The term metamorphosis implies biological naturalness and evokes an evolutionary scheme, moving from one stage of development to another along a life course or a process of growth, which is profound and irreversible. But it can also signify abrupt or startling change in character or circumstance, such as the result of individual or collective creativities as well as hint towards the magical. Therefore, rather than describing a complete change often the Kafkaesque notion of metamorphosis, with its roots in the antique Ovids poem, characterizes a society that is in a constant flux, that is always in the process of becoming.
Sub-topics appropriate for investigation could include but are not limited to:
The keynote speaker of the conference is anthropologist and sociologist Professor Hugh Gusterson from George Mason University, who has done fieldwork in the United States and Russia, where he has studied the culture of nuclear weapons scientists and antinuclear activists. He also writes about militarism and about science more generally, and has a strong interest in professional ethics. He is the author of Nuclear Rites (UC Press, 1996) and People of the Bomb (Minnesota, 2004) and co-editor of Cultures of Insecurity (Minnesota, 1999) and Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong (UC Press, 2005).
Send abstracts of 250-500 words to gradconference@brandeis.edu. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2008.
On behalf of the organizing committee, Ieva Jusionyte
Ieva Jusionyte
Doctoral student
Department of Anthropology
Brandeis University
P.O. Box 549110, MS 006
ieva@brandeis.edu
Metamorphosis is a multi-faceted concept first and foremost referring to the transformation of form, function and perception, which makes it highly useful as a way of bringing together different approaches to the study of social change. This change can take place on the level of form or structure of individual bodies, identities, or larger social groupings such as communities, ethnicities, nations, states. The term metamorphosis implies biological naturalness and evokes an evolutionary scheme, moving from one stage of development to another along a life course or a process of growth, which is profound and irreversible. But it can also signify abrupt or startling change in character or circumstance, such as the result of individual or collective creativities as well as hint towards the magical. Therefore, rather than describing a complete change often the Kafkaesque notion of metamorphosis, with its roots in the antique Ovids poem, characterizes a society that is in a constant flux, that is always in the process of becoming.
Sub-topics appropriate for investigation could include but are not limited to:
- body, sexuality and gender, ethnic identity,
- power, violence, structure and agency,
- performance, cultural landscapes,
- nation-states, globalization, development.
The keynote speaker of the conference is anthropologist and sociologist Professor Hugh Gusterson from George Mason University, who has done fieldwork in the United States and Russia, where he has studied the culture of nuclear weapons scientists and antinuclear activists. He also writes about militarism and about science more generally, and has a strong interest in professional ethics. He is the author of Nuclear Rites (UC Press, 1996) and People of the Bomb (Minnesota, 2004) and co-editor of Cultures of Insecurity (Minnesota, 1999) and Why America's Top Pundits Are Wrong (UC Press, 2005).
Send abstracts of 250-500 words to gradconference@brandeis.edu. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2008.
On behalf of the organizing committee, Ieva Jusionyte
Ieva Jusionyte
Doctoral student
Department of Anthropology
Brandeis University
P.O. Box 549110, MS 006
ieva@brandeis.edu
пятница, 12 октября 2007 г.
call4papers
The second annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP) will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, April 3-4, 2008. The event is being supported by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) and the Instituto da Droga e da Toxicodependência (IDT). Researchers interested in contributing papers that advance analysis of any aspect of drug policy are invited to submit abstracts to the conference organizers, as described below.
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