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суббота, 21 февраля 2009 г.
NCMHD Health Disparities Research on Minority and Underserved Populations (R01)
среда, 16 июля 2008 г.
fep
| Гуманитарные; общественные, социальные науки |
Конкурс по программе Фулбрайт-Кеннан проходит в рамках конкурса по программе Фулбрайта. |
понедельник, 2 июня 2008 г.
irex
| Естественные; гуманитарные дисциплины |
Программа малых грантов – это программа для выпускников обменных программ, финансируемая Отделом образовательных и культурных программ Госдепартамента США (ECA) и направленная на дальнейшее повышение профессиональной квалификации выпускников. |
пятница, 30 мая 2008 г.
fedsup
| Прием заявок от электронных средств массовой информации на получение государственной поддержки в 2008 году. |
| 28.05.2008 |
| информационные технологии |
Федеральное агентство по печати и массовым коммуникациям объявляет прием заявок на получение государственной поддержки на производство и (или) распространение и тиражирование социально значимых программ в области электронных средств массовой информации, на создание и поддержание в сети Интернет сайтов, имеющих социальное или образовательное значение. |
понедельник, 26 мая 2008 г.
full_and_bright
| Программа академических обменов для ученых и деятелей искусств. |
| 26.05.2008 |
| естественные, технические, гуманитарные дисциплины |
Гранты выдаются на конкурсной основе. |
вторник, 20 мая 2008 г.
lifeafterdeath
| Программа поддержки международных визитов и обменов. |
| 19.05.2008 |
| естественные, технические, гуманитарные дисциплины |
Программа Британского Совета поддержки международных визитов и обменов нацелена на поддержание новых научных контактов молодых ученых. |
вторник, 6 мая 2008 г.
bybygrants
- Global Fund Might Consider Loans for Countries That Become Too Wealthy To Qualify for Grants, Executive Director Says
The Global Fund To Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria might begin extending loans to countries that become too wealthy to qualify for grants, Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine said Sunday at an HIV/AIDS conference in Moscow, Reuters reports. Kazatchkine said that by including a loan repayment program in its mandate, the Global Fund could help increasingly wealthy countries that do not yet have the infrastructure to effectively fight HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria. "To us it's important that when the world's money for aid is being distributed, it not only takes into account economic factors but also, for example, burden of disease,"(in this respect Russia is #1) Kazatchkine said.
The Global Fund has committed $1.2 billion to Eastern Europe and Central Asia through to 2010, about 55% of which is going to fight HIV/AIDS. Ten countries from the regions -- including Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkey -- will not be eligible for Global Fund grants by the end of 2009 because they will be classified as upper-income countries, Reuters reports.
Kazatchkine said there has been significant progress in developing nongovernmental organizations in the two regions. However, some advocates worry that without Global Fund financing, NGOs could be marginalized by governments, Reuters reports. "These are societies" in which the "relationship between public sector and the nongovernmental sectors haven't been established and do not run as smoothly as Western societies," Kazatchkine said.
According to Kazatchkine, Russia set the precedent for the possibility of including loans in the Global Fund's work. The country in 2006 pledged to repay 80% of its $320 million Global Fund grant. "What I'm saying is that with the Russian example, we may find ways of basically a free loan that would allow these countries to access resources now but also behave as a donor," Kazatchkine said.
Kazatchkine also said that Kazakhstan could benefit from a Global Fund loan. The country's economy has grown rapidly during the last 10 years, but it still is experiencing an increase in HIV/AIDS cases. Kazakhstan has received more than $67 million in Global Fund grants in previous years. "The challenge for Kazakhstan is how to manage in the future," Kazatchkine said, adding, "I wonder whether we couldn't consider, as an international community, whether Kazakhstan instead of not being eligible at all in the future could potentially be eligible but then commit to reimburse by 2015 or 2020 or whatever."
According to Reuters, the annual number of new HIV/AIDS cases in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia regions has declined from 210,000 in 2001 to about 150,000 in 2007 (Kilner, Reuters, 5/4).
четверг, 17 апреля 2008 г.
ap
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON: It took some shocking statistics - 33 million around the world suffering from HIV or AIDS and 6,000 new infections every day - for U.S. lawmakers to put aside policy disputes and come together.
The House of Representatives voted 308-116 on Wednesday to more than triple, to $50 billion over the next five years, the money available for a program fighting AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in Africa and other stricken areas of the world.
House Democrats, who voted unanimously in favor of the bill, were effusive in their praise of President George W. Bush, who promoted the global AIDS program that Congress originally enacted in 2003 and backed the House bill.
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, funded at $15 billion over the 2003-08 period, is "universally recognized as one of the shining accomplishments of the Bush administration," said Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts.
About $41 billion of the $50 billion would be devoted to AIDS, significantly expanding a program credited with saving more than one million lives in Africa alone in the largest U.S. investment ever against a single disease.
Twenty million people around the world have perished from AIDS, said the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Howard Berman, Democrat of California. "We have a moral imperative to act and to act decisively."
The White House said the program is supporting treatment for about 1.45 million people and is on track to meet its goals of backing treatment for 1 million, preventing 7 million new infections and providing care for 10 million, including orphans and vulnerable children.
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, the top Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee, said the program is based on altruism but also has strengthened U.S. security.
If the AIDS pandemic is not addressed, she said, it "will continue to spread its mix of death, poverty and despondency that is further destabilizing governments and societies and undermining the security of entire regions."
The compromise bill was one of the last endeavors of the former Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, Tom Lantos, Democrat of California, who died of cancer in February. The measure is named after Lantos and his predecessor as chairman, the late Representative Henry Hyde, Republican of Illinois. They worked together on the 2003 act.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved a similar $50 billion bill, and the legislation is seen as having a good chance of passing in an election year in which few major bills will reach the president's desk.
To advance the legislation, conservatives had to give up a provision in the 2003 act requiring that one-third of all HIV prevention funds be spent on abstinence programs. Instead the bill directs the administration to promote "balanced funding for prevention activities" in target countries.
Liberals, in turn, had to accept some restrictions on family planning groups' participation in AIDS programs. Conservatives, concerned that money might be diverted to abortion promotion, pushed for a provision that allows the use of funds for HIV/AIDS testing and counseling services in those family planning programs supported by the U.S. government.
A measure in the 2003 act requiring groups receiving funds to have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution and sex trafficking, opposed by some health groups as impeding anti-AIDS efforts among sex workers, was also left intact.
The White House, which originally promoted doubling the program to $30 billion, has expressed concern over the $50 billion figure but has not opposed it.
"This is irrational generosity," said Representative Dana Rohrabacher, Republican of California, arguing that the country does not have enough money to help veterans and the elderly. "This is benevolence gone wild."
The bill authorizes $10 billion a year, or $50 billion through 2013. Of that, $41 billion is for AIDS prevention and treatment, $4 billion for tuberculosis and $5 billion for malaria. The actual dollars still have to be approved in annual spending bills, but over the past five years Congress exceeded the $15 billion goal, appropriating $19 billion for global AIDS and related programs.
The $41 billion includes up to $2 billion a year for the international Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
The bill limits U.S. contributions to the Global Fund to one-third of total contributions.
It expands the program, originally focused on 15 mainly sub-Saharan African countries, to include Caribbean nations as well as Malawi, Swaziland and Lesotho in Africa. The goal of the next five years is to prevent 12 million new infections, provide anti-retroviral treatment for 3 million and train more than 140,000 health care workers. The bill increases coordination with drinking water and nutrition programs and efforts to educate girls and women.
понедельник, 11 февраля 2008 г.
tempusiv
| Новый конкурс заявок в программу Tempus IV. |
| 11.02.2008 |
| Образование |
Первый конкурс заявок по новой фазе программы Tempus IV приглашает к подаче совместных заявок на проекты двух типов: Совместные проекты (Joint Projects) и Структурные меры (Structural Measures) от партнерств, состоящих из высших учебных заведений, предприятий, министерств, неправительственных организаций, ассоциаций и др. из стран-членов ЕС и стран-партнеров. |
