2. Gender and HIV/AIDS Training Course
The Centre for African Studies (CAFS) will be holding a training course entitled 'Promoting Gender and Rights in Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS', from 24 October to 11 November 2005.
CAFS is a regional collaborating centre of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in its worldwide effort to improve the quality and scope of reproductive health. Launched in 1996, 'Operationalising Cairo and Beijing: A Training Initiative in Gender and Reproductive Health' is a collaboration of the WHO Secretariat, the South African Women's Health Project of the University of Witwatersrand and the Harvard School of Public Health.
The training initiative offers a three-week core curriculum in gender and rights in reproductive health and HIV/AIDS for senior programme managers, planners and policymakers. The course uses a unique format of core modules and regional case material. The content has been adapted to highlight regional priorities and current controversies in diverse countries, in relation to the Millennium Development Goals and Beijing Plans of Action in the context of HIV/AIDS.
Course focus:
- The gender concept and reproductive health
- Gender analysis
- Gender policy approaches
- Social determinants of health
- Gender mainstreaming in RH and HIV/AIDS programmes
- Health systems analysis
- Sexual and reproductive rights
- Gender and HIV/AIDS
This course is ideal for senior- and middle-level programme managers, planners and policymakers from the public and private sectors, as well as NGOs. Researchers and trainers with an interest in gender and reproductive health can also benefit from the course.
For more information:
Isabella Chege
Centre for African Family Studies
Pamstech House, Woodvale Grove, Westlands
PO Box 60054 00200, Nairobi, Kenya
Fax: +254 20 4448621
Email:
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