GLOBAL: IRIN/PlusNews Weekly Issue 480, 9 April 2010
JOHANNESBURG, 9 April 2010 (PlusNews) - CONTENTS:
MALAWI: Court case drives MSM deeper underground
MALAWI: Gift Trapence, "People are targeted because of who they are, not what they are doing"
KENYA: "R U OK 2day?" SMS check-up takes off
DRC: Funding crunch threatens ARV rollout
KENYA: Illegal refugees miss out on HIV services
RWANDA: People with disabilities left out of condom campaign
EVENTS/RESOURCES
1. Conference on Peer Education, Sexuality, HIV and AIDS 2010, National Organization of Peer Educators (NOPE), 16-18 June, 2010 - Nairobi, Kenya
2. Exchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender, Royal Tropical Institute
VACANCIES
1. Chief of Party - Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC), Winrock International - Various
2. Policy Officer, UNAIDS - Geneva, Switzerland
MALAWI: Court case drives MSM deeper underground
An engagement ceremony has landed a same-sex Malawian couple in jail, propelled their country into international headlines, and pushed men who have sex with men (MSM) further towards society's risky margins.
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MALAWI: Gift Trapence, "People are targeted because of who they are, not what they are doing"
Gift Trapence is the executive director of the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP), a human rights organization in Malawi - one of the few working with vulnerable groups like men who have sex with men (MSM), prisoners and sex workers.
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KENYA: "R U OK 2day?" SMS check-up takes off
Phoebe Mapelu's job as a community health worker in Kenya's Kajiado District always meant going from door to door - sometimes with long distances between homes - to check up on patients on life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy (ART).
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DRC: Funding crunch threatens ARV rollout
With large donor projects winding up and little bilateral support for HIV programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country is facing the possibility of ARV shortages and rising HIV mortality, say aid workers.
full report
KENYA: Illegal refugees miss out on HIV services
Salma* is HIV-positive and knows she needs life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs, but visiting a doctor could expose her illegal refugee status in Kenya and risk her being sent to a refugee camp, or worse, back to Somalia.
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RWANDA: People with disabilities left out of condom campaign
Rwanda's recent national condom awareness campaign failed to include messages designed for people with disabilities, something experts say is a mistake, as they are often equally at risk of HIV as the rest of the population.
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EVENTS/RESOURCES
1. Conference on Peer Education, Sexuality, HIV and AIDS 2010, National Organization of Peer Educators (NOPE), 16-18 June, 2010 - Nairobi, Kenya
The conference is aimed at promoting the role of peer educators and other stakeholders in scaling up HIV prevention to address emerging issues using evidence-based interventions.
For more information, go to www.nope.or.ke
2. Exchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender, Royal Tropical Institute
Exchange is a quarterly magazine on HIV/AIDS, gender and sexual health published in English and Portuguese. The magazine's first issue in 2010 looks at building evidence of good practice on sexuality and counselling and argues HIV cannot be adequately addressed by conventional sexuality or health education alone.
To download the magazine, go to www.kit.nl
VACANCIES
1. Chief of Party - Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC), Winrock International - Various
Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic leadership on all programmatic activities, including provision of comprehensive services to OVC and vulnerable households and building local capacity
- Develop and oversee implementation of annual work plans, budgets and reports
- Coordinate with USAID, implementing partners, other donors and government on OVC programming
- Manage and mentor senior staff
- Direct monitoring and evaluation of the programme
- Serve as technical lead or supervisor on areas including, nutritional support, protection, and psychosocial support
Qualifications:
- Masters degree or higher required, in health or education
- Demonstrated focus or supplemental training on HIV/AIDS, gender, income generation/entrepreneurship, monitoring and evaluation preferred
- Minimum ten years experience working on HIV/AIDS sector for donor-funded development programmes; minimum five years experience managing USAID programmes and budgets
- Strong skills in financial management, writing, monitoring and evaluation
- Fluency in written and spoken English
Application deadline: 31 May 2010
To apply for this job, go to the "jobs" section of the Winrock website at www.winrock.org and submit a current resume, salary history and cover letter referencing, "CoP-OVC"
2. Policy Officer, UNAIDS - Geneva, Switzerland
Responsibilities:
- Draft clear policies, procedures, standards and tools consistent with United Nations policy and practices to ensure effective general administration and cooperation
- Evaluate existing business processes, workflows, tools and systems and compare these to other organizations to assess potential improvements
- Participate in the provision of support to regional and country offices on the improvement of their administration processes and inter-agency relationships
- Produce reports related to administration issues for management.
- Monitor the implementation of new and/or revised policies to ensure that performances are on-target according to the relevant internal United Nations systems
Qualifications:
- Advanced university degree in business or public administration, project management, or related subject
- Knowledge of UN or related relevant policies
- Proficient knowledge of MS Word and Excel, and MS Office
- Ability to develop specific service level agreements and to establish a database of policies for easy users' access
- Ability to analyse and produce comprehensive and readable policies and guidelines in line with UN requirements
- At least seven years' experience in administration, including the design of business process, workflows, systems and monitoring tools
- Fluency in English with a good working knowledge of French
Application deadline: 24 April 2010
For more information and to apply, please go to https://erecruit.unaids.org/
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