| Odoslal: | Martin Rusnak |
| Dátum: | August 15, 2000 o 09:44:34 |
| Subject: | HNPFlash: World Report on Violence and Health |
Dear friends,
August is supposed to be slow, but FLASH is still on
fast-forward.........we
have a plethora of news, views, websites, and sister e-zines in
addition to the
usual menu of knowledge, trainings, conferences, and job opps. Please
continue
to share with us as we grow together, because you're what it's all
about. Also,
now we have an easier website to subscribe from:
http://www.worldbank.org/hnpflash
>From the deep tropics of Washington, D.C.,
Homira and Erika
CONTENTS:
- World Report on Violence and Health Wants YOUR Feedback - WHO
- New and Improved (for real) WB Economic Growth Website
- Cool Virtual Libraries from PAHO
- Knowledge Award of the Month: Roger Hays, Oxford Policy Institute
- NGO Networks for Health - thanks to Tom Merrick
- Performance Improvement in RH - JHPIEGO
- How are Market Forces Affecting the Quality of Health Care? AHRQ
Awards
- Programs that Deliver - Logistical Management FPLM
- Patient's Rights Newsletter from WHO
- How's Your Monitoring and Evaluation? New MEASURE Reports
- Conferences: IACAP, ASTMH, People's Health Assemply
- Protect Your People: WorldVision Security Manual
- Impact on HIV: Building Partnerships FHI
- Trachoma - Helen Keller International Initiative
- EUROESLAV New Website: Please comment!
- Health Equity Discussion Listserv - PAHO
- Call for Papers: Children and Human Rights, SID,
- JOBs: CEDPA, Cochrane Group, Liverschool of Tropical Health,
- Queens University, Save the Children, IMC, Ford Foundation, ApAC.
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World Report on Violence and Health - Early next year, the World Health
Organization and its collaborating centres on injury and violence
prevention
will publish its first World Report on Violence and Health. The report
is unique
because it's the first one of its kind that deals with violence on a
global
level in order to raise worldwide awareness on this issue. To support
the
scientific chapters we will supplement the data with first persons
accounts from
those who have experienced violence in order to deepen the
understanding of the
issue. In order to make a difference, we should allow victims and those
who work
closely to victims, to tell their story. In particular we are looking
for
narratives or testimonies of victims and perpetrators of violence,
letters,
poems and photos.
If you have access to first accounts on child abuse, youth violence,
violence
against women, or violence against people with diseases such as AIDS,
would you
be interested in providing me with a few case studies/testimonies to
put into
the report? Due to time constraints please contact Nynke Poortinga,
preferably
by e-mail, as soon as possible. She will be happy to give you all the
additional
information you need. Contact: Nynke Poortinga, WHO Violence and
Injury
Prevention Department, 20 Avenue Appia CH-1211 Geneva 27 Switzerland
email to:
poortingan@who.int
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New and improved World Bank Economic Growth Website! (this is not a
joke)
The web-site features (among other things) a growth and policies
database, data
on corruption and other governance indicators, 95 indicators of social
development over 4 decades, results on poverty alleviation and growth,
research
papers on growth, data on social capital, a growth projection model,
and fun
stuff like "paper of the month" and "growth book of the month." The
web-site
can be accessed at http://www.worldbank.org/research/growth
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COOL stuff from PAHO: Virtual Disaster Library and Virtual Health
Library
This first edition of the Virtual Disaster Library developed by the Pan
American
Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in collaboration with the Regional
Disaster
Information Center (CRID) and the International Decade for Natural
Disaster
Reduction (IDNDR) contains more than 250 publications, in English and
Spanish,
on disaster preparedness, mitigation and response. Although these
publications
are oriented toward the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean,
they are
also of interest to and useful for all countries worldwide.
http://www.paho.org/English/PED/pedtm3en.htm
The majority of this collection is made up of material published by the
Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief Coordination Program of the
Pan
American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) during the past 20 years.
Specifically
it includes: The complete collection (in English and Spanish) of the
newsletter
Disasters: Preparedness and Mitigation in the Americas, published
quarterly
since 1979, a unique source of information that tracks the progress of
the
health sector of the Americas on its journey toward disaster reduction,
highlighting most of the Region´s significant achievements along the
way. All
the manuals and scientific and technical publications on disaster
preparedness,
mitigation and response in the health sector. Disaster Chronicles on
the
Region´s major disasters and the response to them. Guidelines and case
studies,
applicable to training activities. An exhibit titled "Towards Natural
Disaster
Reduction: The Journey of Latin America and the Caribbean" opened July
19 at the
UN Economic and Social Council meeting in New York City. The exhibit,
organized
by the Permanent Mission of Colombia to the United Nations together
with PAHO,
shows how Latin American and Caribbean countries have increased their
preparedness for disasters, and their successes in disaster relief as
well as in
mitigation, preparation, and response. The exhibit highlights many
initiatives
in this area, like disaster mitigation projects in hospitals and water
systems,
in schools, transportation corridors, or energy systems. It includes
also
information on the supply management system, SUMA, the Regional
Disaster
Information Center (CRID) and the use of the Internet in disaster
management.
In addition, check out their totally cool Virtual Health Library
http://www.bireme.br/bvs/I/ihome.htm
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KNOWLEDGE AWARD OF THE MONTH: ROGER HAY for Oxford Policy Brief, No.
2: April
2000...for more info...email: admin@opi.org.uk Briefly summarized
below:
Abstract: The evidence is accumulating that consumers of health care
services
in many low-and middle-income countries have turned away from poor
quality,
publicly-financed services to private providers. At the same time,
many
services effectively have been privatised as low-paid government health
workers
have come to rely increasingly on fees for their income. This
unplanned and
unregulated process was accelerated by the introduction of
cost-recovery
policies which legitimized the charging of fees for services and for
pharmaceuticals. Its roots lie in well-meaning attempts to provide
comprehensive publicly financed health care with insufficient resources
and
insufficient attention to provider incentives and regulation. The
outcomes have
been both inefficient and inequitable. Solutions will be elusive, but
probably
lie in new, more selective and affordable public roles, and different
incentives
for health care providers. Sections: The erosion of public health
services....introduction of health care fees has not delivered its
promised
financial benefits....the growing privatisation of health
services......efficiency losses......where unregulated private
provision
replaces publicly-funded health services, efficiency, and equity losses
ensue......equity losses....Policy responses.....clinicians employed
in the
public sector have substantial opportunities for rent-seeking Designing
incentives for health service providers....Market
incentives...Organizational
incentives....Reforming institutional
environment....Conclusions.....embedded
institutions that once may have provided inducement for government
health
professionals, operating on low pay and without formal organizational
incentives, to work hard for their patients, have been eroded. these
trends may
be regretted, but they also need to be accepted and other incentives
sought to
achieve the same outcome.....an alignment of financial and
non-financial
incentives is required for increased health-sector prodcutivity. These
incentives need to be synergistic and to reinforce each other: no
single
incentive, operating alone, is likely to be effective. Adequate
financial
rewards for public sector health workers are now a necessary, though
not a
sufficient, condition for a reversal of the decline in health services
that are
publicly financed and delivered. In countries where the govt health
sector is
too large to be financed adequately, poor pay has so eroded the
effectiveness of
management incentives and sanctions, that the scope for efficiency
gains by way
of performance management and output-related budget management is
limited.
Unless govt wage rates approximate market-clearing wage rates, these
incentives
are likely to remain weak and regulation will prove indordinately
expensive....but 'bad habits' are unlikely to be reversed by an
increase in govt
wages alone. Expectations may already have been formed of
widely-available
rent-seeking opportunities in the public health service. If so, higher
wages
may not reduce rent-seeking behavior. Instead, income expectations may
simply
advance ahead of pay increases. At worst, there may be a
wage-rent-seeking
ratchet in place which will be difficult to reverse in the short runa
nd may be
managed only by introducing a new cohort of public sector health
workers to new
pay, employment and management conditions. Contact: Roger
Hay...email...roger.hay@opml.co.uk
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Tom Merrick has kindly shared: NGO Networks for Health (Networks) is
an
innovative five-year global health project created to meet the
burgeoning need
for family planning, reproductive health, child survival, and HIV/AIDs
(FP/RH/CS/HIV) information and services in developing countries. Aware
that new
forms of cooperation are called for if communities are to meet these
challenges,
five PVO Partners-ADRA, CARE, PATH, Plan International, and Save the
Children-are collaborating to implement the Networks project. Networks'
vision
is to empower and enable individuals, families, and communities to
improve their
health. Networks pursues its vision by creating innovative and enduring
NGO
partnerships and fostering and supporting networks that enhance the
scale and
quality of FP/RH/CS/HIV programs. Networks has begun project activities
in
Armenia, Malawi, and Nicaragua with more countries to follow. NGO
Networks for
Health, 1620 I Street NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20006 Tel.:
202-955-0070
x32 http://www.ngonetworks.org
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PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT: DEVELOPING A STRATEGY FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
SERVICES
Author(s): Caiola, N.; Sullivan, R. Produced by: JHPIEGO Consortium,
(2000)
During the past several years there has been a global trend in business
and
industry to move from training to performance improvement. This paper
presents a
review of selected performance improvement and training literature that
has been
helpful to JHPIEGO in identifying issues related to this trend and in
shaping
our performance improvement strategy. For more info, please see:
http://www.reproline.jhu.edu/english/6read/6pi/pistrat1.htm
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Market Forces Grant Awards AHRQ announced on July 19 the award of $12.5
million
in total projected funding over the next 5 years to establish three new
centers
of excellence to conduct research on how market forces are affecting
the quality
of health care, access to care, and health care costs. Go to
http://www.ahrq.gov/news/press/pr2000/mforcespr.htm to see their press
release.
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FPLM Programs That Deliver outlines the critical logistics lessons
learned by
FPLM, a project working since 1986 in approximately 40 countries in
Africa,
Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The result of 15 years of
collaboration
with national family planning and health programs and nongovernmental
organizations interested in improving their supply chains, the
monograph
contains a careful description of why health and family planning
programs cannot
succeed unless the supply chain delivers a reliable, continuous supply
of
contraceptives and essential products to customers. It also provides a
number of
different perspectives on the logistics management process, focusing
chapters on
the policymaker's role in improving and supporting the supply chain,
the
customer's point of view, and the needs and motivations of the people
and
organizations coordinating logistics systems.
Programs That Deliver explains the key components of a logistics system
and
discusses trends that affect and may transform family planning and
public health
supply chain management in developing countries issues such as health
sector
reform, decentralization, cost recovery, the donor environment, and the
role of
the private sector. To order a copy, send an E-mail to:
FPLM_Project@jsi.com or
call Heather Davis at (703) 528-7474.
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European Partnership for Patients' Rights and Citzens' Empowerment.
Newsletter
from WHO - Editorial team: Tina Andersen and Lars Fallberg. For more
info and
subscriptions, contact lfa@who.dk or man@wwho.dk or mra@who.dk fax:
+45
39171870 tel: +45 39171314
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MEASURE Evaluation/Carolina Population Center has developed a series of
publications in order to disseminate information from its surveys,
workshops and
research. There are five types of publications: Technical Reports,
Workshop
Reports, Working Papers, Evaluation Bulletins and Manuals/Guides. The
following
is a description of each type of publication and attached is a list of
all
current MEASURE Evaluation publications of each type. Copies of any of
these
publications can be received by emailing measure@unc.edu and
specifying the
publication number, quantity and postal address. There are more MEASURE
Evaluation publications to come soon, but you can access the updated
publication
list at http://www.cpc.unc.edu/measure.
Technical Reports: Technical reports are based on MEASURE Evaluation
supported
surveys or analysis of DHS data sets. These reports have a broad
scope and
usually focus on a specific location (e.g. DISH in Uganda). Workshop
Reports:
Workshop reports come from MEASURE Evaluation workshops on special
topics (e.g.
capacity building and quality of care) Working Papers: Working papers
are
technical papers that eventually are intended for journal publication.
The
papers are published by the project before journal publication so they
can be
distributed and referenced. Evaluation Bulletin: The Evaluation
Bulletin is a
publication series with summaries of MEASURE Evaluation studies and
current
thematic issues. The bulletin will contain short articles on one broad
topic
such as quality of care. This publication is intended for a general
audience.
Manuals/Guides: In the future, there will a manual and handbook
series, which
will be a reference to assist in decision-making about program
monitoring and
evaluation. These manuals are intended for to have a wide focus and
draw from
several country surveys.
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CONFERENCES:
International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC) announces
"On the
brink of a Centry of Challenge: IAPAC Sessions 2000" November 1-3,
2000,
Chicago, IL Contact: Gary Mohr email: hmohr@iapac.org 33 North
LaSalle
Street, Suite 2600 Chicago, IL 60602-2601 Tel (312) 795-4930
http://www.iapac.org
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 49th Annual Meeting
October
29-Nov. 2, 2000, Houston TX email: astmh@astmh.org tel:
847-480-9592
http://www.astmh.org
CI, ROAP is but one of a number of Civil Society Organizations
facilitating a
People's Health Assembly, one event of which will be a physical
assembly of
about 600 people from around the world at Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Savar,
Bangladesh from 4-8 December 2000. This will be followed by a smaller
follow-up
forum (teach-in) and then post-Assembly activities in a number of
countries
during 2001. Details of the PHA rationale and process can be found at
http://www.pha2000.org. Contact: Dr. Ken Harvey, PHA Secretariat, CI
ROAP,
252-A Jalan Air Itam 10460 Penang Malaysia tel: 604-229 1318; fax:
604-228 6506
email: phasec@pha2000.org website: www.pha2000.org
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Protect Your People - World Vision Security Manual
The most valuable resource in an aid organization is undoubtedly its
people. It
is from the hands of field workers that aid is delivered to those in
need.
Unfortunately, international aid workers are now more vulnerable than
ever, as
evidenced by the increased number of attacks on them in recent years.
Dealing
effectively with the threat of such attacks requires forethought and
preparation. Until now, there has not been a broad-scope yet concise
publication to help organizations address these importantan issues.
This
manual can help you develop a comprehensive security policy that
considers
issues such as vehicle safety, cultural appropriateness, and hostage
situations.
tel: 1-626- 301-7720 email: MARC pubs@wvi.org fax: 1-626 301-7789
http://www.wvi.org
800 West Chestnut Ave, Monrovia, CA 91016-3198
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Impact on HIV: Building Partnerships Volume 2, Number 1, June 2000
Family Health International's (FHI) latest issue of Impact on HIV, a
semiannual
magazine about HIV/AIDS prevention and care, is now on-line. This issue
highlights effective partnerships for HIV/AIDS prevention and care
involving a
range of partners, from community members to business owners. It
includes
articles on community mobilization to support orphans and other
vulnerable
children in southern Africa, a network of people living with HIV/AIDS
in India,
and a successful private-public partnership to prevent HIV and other
sexually
transmitted infections in South African mining communities. Other
articles
examine the growing role of nongovernmental organizations in Russia's
response
to a burgeoning epidemic, the results of a dynamic strategic planning
process in
the Dominican Republic, and the growth of youth drama groups dedicated
to HIV
prevention in Kenya.Contact David Hock e-mail: dhock@fhi.org
http://www.fhi.org/en/aids/impact/iohiv/ioh21/index.html
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Helen Keller International TRACHOMA has begun a five-year project to
expand
community education and school health interventions in eight countries
to help
reduce trachoma, which is the second leading cause of blindness in the
world.
This project is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Another 150
million, mostly children, need treatment for active disease. 540
million people,
or 10% of the world's population, are at risk of developing the
disease. The
World Health Organization has endorsed a four-part strategy to
eliminate
trachoma as a blinding disease:
S: A simple surgical correction for trichiasis
A: Antibiotic treatment for active infection
F: Regular face washing helps prevent the spread of the infection
E: Specific environmental improvements that reduce contributing factors
A new partnership with the Worldspace Foundation affords the
opportunity to
download information via satellite using inexpensive digital radios,
enabling
better information dissemination and distribution of education
materials to
remote areas. For example, training manuals such as HKI's Basis Eye
Care for
Community Health Workers can be downloaded and adapted for local use.
please
contact the program at: trachomaLearn@mail.com
Kirsten Laursen, Project Team Leader; Benedict Tisa, Senior Technical
Advisor
mailto:btisa@mail.com http://members.tripod.com/~btisa/index.htm
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EUROELSAV (ETHICAL, LEGAL, AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN NEW VACCINE RESEARCH
AND
VACCINATION POLICIES IN EUROPE): http://www.euroelsav.net . The site
still in an
experimental stage, and we would really appreciate any comments and
suggestions
from your part. The Euro Elsav project is a EU funded research project
in the
scope of the BIOMED programme, and it started in 1999. The project
final
conference will be held in Rome, on November 24-25, 2000.
Please do not hesitated to contact Emilio Mordini or Rosaline Ricco
(iprs@mclink.it) if you are interested in receiving more details or if
you like
to be enlisted in the project mailing list.
Emilio Mordini, MD, Psychoanalytic Institute for Social Research
11, Passeggiata di Ripetta - 00186 Rome - Italy Tel +39 0632652401 Fax
+39
0632652433 Portable: +39 348 6549759 email: emilio.m@tiscalinet.it
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Equity, Health and Human Development This electronic discussion group
of the
Division of Health and Human Development (HDP) of the Pan American
Health
organization is a RESOURCE ONLY listserv to disseminate information,
promote
communication and interdisciplinary links
to individuals andorganizations
working on Equity, Health and Human Development. EQUIDAD list
distributes
information on documents, reports, projects, events, handouts,
bibliographies,
listings of new sources, library catalogues and archives, internet
resources,
and datasets on themes such as research, public policies, health
legislation,
democracy, governance, health determinants, health economics,
sociology,
poverty, ethics, gender and equity. EQUIDAD is administrated by HDP
and the
information is posted in English, Spanish and/or Portuguese. To
subscribe to
EQUIDAD, send a message to: listserv@paho.org In the body of the
message,
type: SUBSCRIBE EQUIDAD
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Call for Papers on children's health and human rights Health and Human
Rights
Vol. 5, No. 2 is planning a special issue on children's health and
human rights
to appear in 2001. Submissions will be accepted through October 15,
2000. Our
goal is to present a wide variety of conceptual work and practical
applications
that will become a resource for policymakers, activists, and academics
around
the world. The journal publishes scholarly articles, commentaries,
editorials,
profiles, book reviews, and bibliographies. All pieces are
peer-reviewed by
experts in the field. Our most recent special issue, on reproductive
and sexual
rights, presented the work of prominent scholars and activists from
around the
world, including Rosalind Petchesky, Tomris Tirmen, Alice Miller,
Barbara
Klugman, Bonnie Shepard, and Nafis Sadik, Executive Director of the
United
Nations Population Fund. Contributors to other issues have included
community
activists, scholars, and such distinguished global leaders as Kofi
Annan,
Secretary-General of the United Nations; Gro Harlem Brundtland,
Director-General
of the World Health Organization; and Mary Robinson, United Nations
High
Commissioner for Human Rights. Published by the Center since 1994,
Health and
Human Rights explores the reciprocal influences of health and human
rights,
including the impact of public health programs and policies on human
rights, the
health consequences of human rights violations, the importance of
health for
the realization of human rights, and the ways in which promotion of
human rights
can be incorporated as an integral part of public health strategies.
Subscribers
include individuals working in health and in human rights within
nongovernmental
and governmental organizations, as well as academic institutions
worldwide.
Please send submissions to:
Laura Horton, Assistant Editor, Health and Human Rights, FXB Center for
Health
and Human Rights 651 Huntington Avenue, 7th Floor Boston, MA 02115 USA
Tel:
617-432-4311 Fax: 617-432-4310 mailto:fxbcenter@igc.org Guidelines for
authors
available upon request or at
http://www.hri.ca/partners/fxbcenter/journal/SubmissionGuidelines.pdf
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The Society for International Development (SID) and the Bernard Leer
Foundation
are pleased to announce a special issue of the Development journal on
Women's
rights and child's rights to be published in June 2001 for distribution
at the
UNGASS on children in 2001. We are looking for contributions from
scholars,
policy makers and activists who are working either in the area of
women's rights
or child's rights (or both) to write an article on the links among the
different
demands for rights by women and child rights groups within specific
socio-cultural contexts. Articles should consider the similar concerns
of women
and children living in poverty how children's rights to well-being are
intricately linked to women's rights to health, education, security and
sustaining livelihoods. Contributors should consider if there are
actually
conflicting rights, for example in terms of early childhood care: how
does
women's rights to work conflict with children's rights to have love and
care and
security? Other concerns could be: how to encourage women and children
to voice
their concerns and needs in public fora, how to explain the cultural
and other
impediments for both groups to exercise their rights, how to create
ways for
women and children to know more about their rights. The articles should
be
original, written in accessible language and if possible with examples
drawn
from specific socio-cultural contexts. It will also directly feed into
a future
issue planned in 2001 with UNICEF on 'Violence Against Women and the
Culture of
Masculinity' Those interested should send by e-mail to
wendyh@sidint.org, cc:
elenam@sidint.org their name, bio-note, article title and 100 word
abstract.
Those applying should also indicate if they would like a complimentary
copy of
Development 43.1 referred to above. The deadline for applications would
be 30
September 2000. Each author will receive a complimentary copy of the
journal
and 25 off-prints.
Monique Thibaut tel: +39-06-487 2172 fax: +39-06-487 2170 E-mail:
moniquet@sidint.org
via Panisperna, 207 00184, Rome, Italy http://www.sidint.org
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JOBS:
The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) is a
nonprofit
international organization dedicated to empowering women. CEDPA has
been
awarded a USAID contract to provide Technical Advisors in AIDS and
Child
Survival (TAACS) to USAID offices overseas and in Washington. **
These
positions requires US citizenship. Security clearance will be
required.
** VACCINE ADVISOR AND PROGRAM MANAGER: Position located in USAID
Washington.
Will maintain long term strategy and implementation plan for USAID's
efforts to
accelerate the development, availability, and utilization of new and/or
improved
vaccines, as well as market low-cost health and nutrition technologies
for
children in the developing world. Advanced degree in international
public
health or related fields, plus minimum of 5 years of experience in
international
public health and/or family planning. Demonstrated ability to
collaborate with
multiple partners including UN organizations, multilateral/bilateral
organizations, NGOs, and foundations. Excellent benefits. Send
resume/CV,
references and salary history to Elizabeth Coleman, Recruitment
Coordinator.
Your application cannot be considered without complete materials. Fax
to
202-332-4496, or e-mail to jobs@cedpa.org. No calls, please. Open
until
filled.
SENIOR HIV/AIDS ADVISOR-USAID KENYA: Position based in Nairobi, Kenya.
This
position will serve as the USAID's chief program manager and technical
advisor
for HIV/AIDS. He/she will act as the liaison with other USG agencies;
coordinate with donors; provide strategic planning and develop new
programs;
monitor, evaluate and report on HIV/AIDS partners in Kenya to USAID.
Minimum of
Master's degree in public health, social science or related field. Ten
years
experience managing and implementing PH and HIV/AIDS programs overseas.
USAID
experience desirable. Demonstrated experience working with developing
country
program managers/policy makers, international donors and NGOs in
support of
HIV/AIDS or RH, focus in Africa preferred. Excellent benefits. Send
resume/CV,
references and salary history to Elizabeth Coleman, Recruitment
Coordinator.
Your application cannot be considered without complete materials. Fax
to
202-332-4496, or e-mail to jobs@cedpa.org. No calls, please.
Announcement
closing date: September 4, 2000.
Liverschool of Tropical Medicine - Needs Lecturer in Research
Synthesis, to
work on systematic reviews, preferably in infectious diseases; a
Lecturer in
Medical Statistics, to contribute to review work, individual patient
data
analysis and methodological research; a Research Assistant with a
health care
background to develop a project around clinical guidelines development;
and a
Trials Search Manager, who will work with the Cochrane Infectious
Diseases
Group. Further details are available on our International Health
Division web
page: