GLOBAL: IRIN PlusNews Weekly Issue 355, 5 October 2007
JOHANNESBURG, 5 October 2007 (PlusNews) - NEWS:
ZIMBABWE: HIV-positive pastor shouts from the pulpit
SOUTH AFRICA: Hospital project attempts to revive Johannesburg inner city
INDONESIA: Injecting more than drugs
ZIMBABWE: Bulawayo's water crisis cripples AIDS efforts
ZIMBABWE: People living with HIV/AIDS use new ways to handle hard times
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE: Claims of putting the virus to sleep worry activists
Events/Resources
1. Teachers Matter: Baseline Findings on The HIV-related needs of Kenyan Teachers
2. Registration deadline for World Conference on Lung Health, 19 October
Vacancies
1. Chief of Party, Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
2. Programme Advisor, AIDS Relief Anti-Retroviral Therapy Project, CRS
ZIMBABWE: HIV-positive pastor shouts from the pulpit
Rev Maxwell Kapachawo is the only known pastor in Zimbabwe who publicly admits to being HIV-positive; he is also encouraging any of his peers infected and affected by the disease to speak openly about HIV/AIDS from the pulpit.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Hospital project attempts to revive Johannesburg inner city
A new focus on healthcare in South Africa's most densely populated inner-city suburb, is to help regenerate a community hard hit by HIV/AIDS, poverty and crime.
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INDONESIA: Injecting more than drugs
For heroin addicts in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, the cheapest way to get a fix is entirely legal and provided by the government.
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ZIMBABWE: Bulawayo's water crisis cripples AIDS efforts
Zimbabwe's economic woes have taken their toll on Thembelihle House, (meaning 'Good Hope' in Ndebele) an HIV and AIDS nursing home in Mpopoma, a high-density suburb in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city, but the severe water shortage has been even more crippling.
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ZIMBABWE: People living with HIV/AIDS use new ways to handle hard times
Dire shortages of such essentials as electricity and water are forcing Zimbabweans living with HIV/AIDS to combat the country's hardships with new and novel approaches.
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SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE: Claims of putting the virus to sleep worry activists
Dorviro-Sida, or "Put AIDS to sleep" in Portuguese, is the name of the new anti-AIDS herbal remedy produced by Amancio Valentim, 52, President of the Association of Traditional Medicine in São Tome and Principe, the tiny archipelago off the coast of Gabon. He says three tablespoons of the brownish syrup, taken every day before meals, will reduce the viral load and make patients feel better.
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Events/Resources
1. Teachers Matter: Baseline Findings on The HIV-related needs of Kenyan Teachers
Most school-based HIV interventions in sub-Saharan Africa rely on teachers as behavior formation and behavior-change agents to deliver prevention messages to children. Few target teachers as the direct beneficiaries even though teachers themselves are at risk of HIV infection. There is therefore an urgent need to understand the dynamics of risk-taking behavior among this population in order to develop appropriate interventions. This is particularly crucial in Kenya because teachers represent the country’s single largest workforce, comprising 240,000 professionals.
To download the summary of this study, go to www.popcouncil.org
2. Registration deadline for World Conference on Lung Health, 19 October
With a theme of "Confronting the challenges of HIV and MDR in TB prevention and care." the 8 to 12 Nov. Cape Town conference seeks to address constraints to effective prevention and care while taking into consideration broader political economy and sectoral issues.
For more information, go to www.worldlunghealth.org
Vacancies
1. Chief of Party, CRS, Zimbabwe
Responsibilities:
- Oversee periodic technical reviews and manage changes in programme direction and focus.
- With programme staff, ensure the delivery of quality training, technical assistance and administrative and financial support to all partner agencies, including the selection and coordination of consultants.
- Manage programme budgets, including tracking of financial and material resources.
- In collaboration with CRS country representative, oversee programme communication strategies, including compliance with donor’s branding and marketing requirements as well as CRS marketing and communication procedures.
Requirements:
- Minimum Master’s Degree, PhD preferred, ideally in Public Health, International Development, or other related field
- Significant field experience managing holistic programmes involving all socio-economic aspects of child protection, including community-based care of orphans and vulnerable children and HIV/AIDS, community support frameworks, child rights, and livelihoods
- Proven leadership and inter-personal skills and ability to build and motivate diverse and talented teams and maintain community linkages
- Public relations skills required, including advocacy experience
- Cultural sensitivity, patience and flexibility
- Demonstrated personal accountability and driven to serve others
- Understanding of and experience with faith-based organizations, local church structures, and accompaniment and capacity-building principles in local partnerships highly desired.
- Ability to travel nationally as required
- Excellent English language oral and written communication skills required.
Application deadline: October 9, 2007
Note: This position is contingent on the awarding of funding by the donor.
For a full description and to apply, please go to www.crs.org.
2. Programme Advisor, AIDS Relief Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) Programme, CRS, Kenya or Zambia
Responsibilities:
- Expand the paediatric and nursing training agenda, with special attention on the psychosocial aspects of care and counselling
- Develop new culturally appropriate IEC/BBC materials for health providers, patients, and patient families
- Support Country Programmes in identification of areas requiring specific guidance and technical assistance and coordinate the appropriate response
- Identify programme best practices in areas such as adherence, community mobilization, care models, training programmes, etc., and share findings with other
- Facilitate regular and timely exchange of information between Country Programmes, Consortium Members, Africa team staff, and Headquarters based staff
on key programmatic issues.
- Assist Country Programmes with the development or modification of tools to monitor and evaluate progress.
- Coordinate regional training activities with the Africa team staff
Requirements:
- Advanced Medical degree with specialization in paediatrics preferred, or Masters in Pubic Health
- Five years previous work experience in preferably more than one developing country working with HIV/AIDS and/or health programmes
- Extensive experience working in the HIV/AIDS field, with knowledge of issues related
to ART
- Three years experience in programme management
- Strong organizational, analytical and information management skills
- Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills
- Professional proficiency in French, Spanish or Portuguese, French strongly preferred
- Willingness to travel extensively
To apply, visit www.crs.org. Regrettably, email submissions cannot be accepted. In your cover letter, please include requisition number I07 103, source code and salary requirements.
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