IRIN HIV/AIDS Weekly - 270
Africa
10 February 2006


NEWS:

CHAD: Worries about AIDS funding crunch after World Bank spat
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE: Dangerous Bananas

EVENTS

1. Responding to HIV/AIDS in the African Fishery Sector
2. Ask the experts - the global fight against TB

JOBS

1. Assistant Country Director, CARE Canada - Harare, Zimbabwe



NEWS

CHAD: Worries about AIDS funding crunch after World Bank spat

Chad's fight against AIDS is set to be one of the main victims if a
standoff between the government and the World Bank drags on, senior UN
officials have warned.

The World Bank recently suspended all its loans to the impoverished
landlocked country because of a decision by President Idriss Deby to
tamper with an agreement governing how revenues from its fledgling oil
project can be spent.

Chad, which has a HIV-prevalence rate of 4.8 percent, gets two-thirds of
its AIDS funding from the global lender, and the freeze has struck at a
critical time.

More details:
http://www.plusnews.org/AIDSreport.asp?ReportID=5657


SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE: Dangerous Bananas

Children are the wealth of the poor, say the fishermen of Angolares on
the island of Sao Tome. If a wife has not conceived after a year of
marriage, the families take the couple to a traditional doctor for
fertility treatment, and if this still does not work, the wife's parents
arrange another husband.

The pressure to have children is not exclusive to Angolares, some 35
kilometres south of the capital, Sao Tome, it is equally strong in the
rest of the country and one of the reasons for low condom use, according
to Dr Antonio Amado Vaz, director of the Sao Tomese Association for
Family Promotion (ASPF).

More details:
http://www.plusnews.org/AIDSreport.asp?ReportID=5660



EVENTS

1. An international workshop, entitled 'Responding to HIV/AIDS in the
Fishery Sector', co-hosted by the Department of Fisheries, the Ministry
of Agriculture and the National AIDS Council of Zambia, will take place
in Lusaka, Zambia, on 21-22 February 2006.

Fishing communities and the fishery sector have been identified as
'high-risk' populations in the context of HIV/ AIDS. Agencies in
government, civil society and the private sector have been addressing
these issues at various levels, from policy to community development
support and, underlying these interventions, conducting research into
contributing social, economic and health factors.

The purpose of the workshop is to assess progress made in responding to
HIV/AIDS in the fishery sector in Africa and identify priorities for
further research and development support. Addressing this urgent demand,
the International Workshop will enable agencies active in policy,
community development and research to work more effectively in response
to HIV/AIDS in the sector.

The workshop is being organised with assistance from the Food and
Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the International Organisation for
Migration (IOM) and the WorldFish Centre, and support from the Swedish
International Development Agency (SIDA).

For further information contact: +202 736 4114. Email enquires can be
addressed to: Lusaka2006@worldfish-eg.org


2. On Thursday, 16 February 2006, a panel of experts will answer
questions about the global fight against tuberculosis (TB) during a live
webcast of "Ask the Experts" - a kaisernetwork.org programme.  Send
questions in advance to ask@kaisernetwork.org.
http://cme.kff.org/Key=10187.FH0.C.D.DkMRDn

This live webcast will focus on questions such as: What are the major
components of the recently released Global Plan to Stop TB (2006-2015)?
Are advancements for TB treatment and vaccines on the horizon? How has
the HIV/AIDS pandemic altered the strategy to eradicate this ancient
scourge? The discussion will be moderated by kaisernetwork.org Managing
Editor, Jill Braden Balderas.

The panel of experts:

- Joanne Carter, legislative director, RESULTS
- Richard Chaisson, MD, director, Center for TB Research, Johns Hopkins
   Bloomberg School of Public Health, and principle investigator,
   Consortium to Respond Effectively to the AIDS/TB Epidemic (CREATE)
- Irene Koek, division chief, Infectious Diseases, Bureau for Global
   Health, USAID, and chair, Coordinating Board, Stop TB Partnership


Watch the live webcast on kaisernetwork.org.
http://cme.kff.org/Key=10187.FH0.C.D.DkMRDn

The panel of experts will take your phone calls and emails. Send
questions in advance to ask@kaisernetwork.org or call 1-888-524-7378
during the live broadcast.



JOBS

1. Assistant Country Director, CARE Canada - Harare, Zimbabwe

The Assistant Country Director - Programmes, is a key member of the CARE
Country Office (CO) Senior Management Team.

The Assistant Country Director will have Country Office (CO)-wide
responsibilities for developing, overseeing and upgrading the CO's
programming across its broad spectrum of development and humanitarian
initiatives.


RESPONSIBILITIES:

Programme Development

- Good familiarity, networking and working relationships with donors and
programme staff of CARE International members

- Work with consultants and senior Country Office programme staff on the
active development of viable proposals and accurate budgets that are
conceptually coherent, of high quality and consistent with best practice
for submission to donors

- Familiarity with new directions of CARE International and the
international development community and the ability to incorporate them
into new, innovative programming

- A working knowledge of donor requirements and formats


Closing date: 15 Feb 2006

Submission instruction:
Interested applicants should apply online via the CARE Canada website (www.care.ca) or via Careers Without Borders (www.careerswithoutborders.com) or via email to shirley@care.ca

For a detailed job description:
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/res.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-6L8QV5?OpenDocument


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