APRIL 14-15, 2007: UNITE FOR SIGHT'S 4th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CONFERENCE: INNOVATION, ADVANCEMENT AND BEST PRACTICES TO ACHIEVE GLOBAL GOALS (STANFORD UNIVERSITY, PALO ALTO, CA)

Unite For Sight's Fourth Annual International Health Conference will convene more than 1,500 people from throughout the world who are interested in international service, global health, public health, international development, eye care, health policy and advocacy, entrepreneurship, microfinance, bioethics, and medicine. This empowering, energizing conference brings together students, doctors, nurses, Peace Corps volunteers, public health, business and nonprofit professionals, anthropologists, policy makers, and others. The conference's goal is to exchange ideas across disciplines about best practices to achieve global goals in health and development. Registration for the conference is now open. For more information, visit the conference website at http://www.uniteforsight.org/2007_annual_conference.php.

 

MAY 11-12, 2007: INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL MEDICINE (INMED) EXPLORING MEDICAL MISSIONS CONFERENCE (UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI)

INMED held its first conference in May 2006 with over 200 participants. This year's conference will focus on HIV intervention and 500 participants are expected. The Conference will also provide physicians, nurses, students, pharmacists, therapists and other health professionals with an understanding of international health issues, diseases of poverty, cross-cultural skills, and health leadership. Participants will have ample chance to network with medical mission organizations about opportunities to serve. Earn 13 hours of CME and 9.75 hours of CEU. Continuing education credit also available for Dentists, Pharmacists, Paramedics and EMTs. Special sessions are available to health profession students, too!

Early-bird discount rates are in effect only until April 1! More information about the conference and about INMED can be found at http://www.inmed.us. For the conference brochure and a mail-in registration form, go to http://www.inmed.us/INMED_Conference.pdf.

 

MAY 26-28, 2007: CCIH ANNUAL CONFERENCE - PARTNERSHIPS FOR HEALTH AND WHOLENESS (BISHOP CLAGGETT CENTER, FREDERICK, MD)

We look forward to meeting many of you at the Annual Conference this year! We will be returning to the Bishop Claggett Center (http://www.claggett.ang-md.org), which has been updated with a new conference facility. The new building will allow us to hold all of our meetings/workshops in one place and will include a chapel/meditation room (creatively built within the old farm silo!) and a spacious dining area with beautiful views over the valley toward Sugarloaf Mountain.

The conference theme is Partnerships for Health and Wholeness. Our goal for the conference is to explore, discuss and learn about various types of partnerships. Some of the questions we will focus on are: What defines true partnership? How do we promote good partnerships? What pitfalls should we avoid? What are some examples of effective and fulfilling collaborative efforts?

The conference will begin on Saturday morning, May 26, with two pre-conferences: Monitoring and Evaluation and Christian Leadership Strategies for Health System Reform. The main conference begins at 12 noon and will run through Monday evening, May 28. Accommodation and meals will be available on the campus from Saturday through Monday night. Check out is after breakfast on Tuesday, May 29. A limited number of beds will also be available for Friday night, May 25. Additional conference information can be found at http://www.ccih.org/conferences/May2007/2007ConferenceInfo.htm.

We sincerely encourage you to join us at the Claggett Center for this conference. It is always a special time of fellowship, networking and personal and professional growth with a wonderful and diverse group of participants, all coming together with a common purpose of exploring how to combine our faith with our passion for international health care. We look forward to seeing you there!

Updated information about the conference will be posted at our website, http://www.ccih.org, as it becomes available. Please feel free to contact Sharon (sfranzen@ccih.org) for further information.

 

MAY 29-JUNE 1, 2007: 34th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL HEALTH - PARTNERSHIPS: WORKING TOGETHER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH (OMNI SHOREHAM HOTEL, WASHINGTON, DC)

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION FOR THE GLOBAL HEALTH COUNCIL CONFERENCE ENDS MARCH 30! The savings are significant, so plan to register soon!

How can we best use our collective experiences, resources, expertise, passion and humanity to help change the fundamentals of global health? Not alone in narrow disciplines, but through partnerships that draw on differing perspectives, differing knowledge and experience, and differing priorities. All of us need to understand better how to mobilize such partnerships, how to make them most effective, and where to turn for experience and help.

The Global Health Council’s 34th Annual International Conference is dedicated to exploring these relationships: how they are built, what they have and can deliver, and how those living in poverty and disease can best benefit. All of these joint efforts are means to our common end: to tackle complex health problems and find solutions to these problems at all levels, and in so doing, improve the health of the world.

For more information, go to http://www.globalhealth.org/conference.

 

JUNE 9-12, 2007: SOWING SEEDS: GROWING A MOVEMENT, THE GATHERING 2007 (THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, DC)

The Gathering 2007 is organized by Bread for the World (http://www.bread.org), Bread for the World Institute, and the Alliance to End Hunger (http://www.alliancetoendhunger.org) in partnership with denominations and religious organizations across the United States.

For these four days, thousands of people of faith will gather in Washington, DC to launch a renewed movement to end hunger and poverty in the United States and around the world. Activists with decades of experience will join with young people just beginning their public life and political involvement. Rural leaders—newly energized with a heart to help hungry people—will meet longtime urban anti-poverty workers. Parents will bring their children to show them that anyone has the chance—and the responsibility—to speak to their representatives in Congress. Campaign leaders from developing countries will meet with development practitioners, to share stories and successes in fighting poverty worldwide. People will reach out across the religious spectrum—evangelical and Catholic, ecumenical Protestant and historic African American denominations, Latino Christians and other people of faith—and join hands with other people of faith at the Interfaith Convocation. Activities will include an interfaith convocation, a forum with 2008 Presidential candidates and a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill.

Come to Washington. Connect with others. Renew your faith. Build a movement. Change the world. For more information, go to http://www.bread.org/about-us/national-gathering. Discount rates are available until May 1.

 

JUNE 21-24, 2007: LEVERAGING CHANGE: THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF GLOBAL POVERTY and HEALTH CARE (HIRAM COLLEGE, HIRAM, OHIO)

This international summer symposium is sponsored by the Hiram College Center for Literature, Medicine, and Biomedical Humanities and co-sponsored by The Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University. The symposium will address critical topics in international health care and issues of disparity within the U.S. health care system, paying attention to the political and economic forces that contribute to these health care disparities/inequalities. It will focus on potential solutions to the many problems that exist and how humanities, especially literature and the arts, might contribute to those solutions. Participants will engage with researchers, health care professionals, humanities and social science scholars, and artists on such issues as health care inequality, social justice, poverty and professional motivation. For more information on the course and on the Hiram College Center, go to http://litmed.hiram.edu/Sumsem.html. An intensive four-hour graduate course connected to the symposium will begin on June 18 at Hiram. It will conclude June 24. For more information, contact mais@hiram.edu or call 330-569-6111.

There is a call for papers to be presented at the symposium. Paper Proposals will be due no later than April 15 with notification sent within two weeks (no later than May 1) of receipt of the proposal. Also invited are proposals from artists, writers, musicians, dramatists about works appropriate to the symposium.

 

JULY 4-7, 2007: PRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL CONVOCATION 2007: WHERE LOVE AND JUSTICE MEET (TORONTO, CANADA)

The international convocation of Prison Fellowship International, the organization founded by Chuck Colson and now working in 110 countries with Christian ministry to prisoners, is organized every four years. PFI brings together judges and former prisoners, chaplains and volunteers, politicians and prison. PFI’s Global Assistance Program mobilizes short-term voluntary medical and technical assistance in response to needs in prisons through national Prison Fellowship organizations. AIDS prevention is an important focus in some countries. For details and to register online, go to http://www.pfi.org.

 

JULY 4-7, 2007: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S SUMMIT: WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP MAKING A DIFFERENCE ON HIV AND AIDS (NAIROBI, KENYA)

This International Women's Summit is actually part of the larger World YWCA Council involving a series of events (see http://www.worldywca.info/index.php/ywca/world_council_07/overview), hosted by World YWCA and YWCA of Kenya. The International Women's Summit (IWS) is organized in collaboration with partner organizations, and is open to participants from other organizations and sectors, including Women living with HIV/AIDS, Community and grassroots leaders, NGO Activists, UN and other multilateral agencies, Government representatives and other policy makers, Private sector representatives, Researchers, Advocates and other stakeholders active in the field of HIV and AIDS.

The Summit commences with a one day Positive Women’s Forum on July 4, 2007, and is followed by three days of intensive discussion and debate, training and networking, as well as fun and inspiration. During the Summit there will be workshops organized around the topics of: Women’s Leadership in response to HIV and AIDS; Policy and Advocacy – moving into action; Intensifying prevention, treatment, care and support for women and girls; Lessons learnt from changing communities; and Positive Living.

The goals of the summit are

• To highlight the difference women’s leadership is making in response to HIV and AIDS by making visible African and young women’s leadership, at grassroots and community levels, including national, regional and international levels.
• To build the capacity of leaders and their organizations in undertaking sustainable programs that address cutting-edge issues
• To raise awareness and mobilize the women’s movement on HIV and AIDS and crosscutting issues and produce the evidence required to affect change at all levels in society
• To provide the space for networking and the building of strategic partnerships that will broaden the impact of responses to HIV and AIDS at all levels.

There is still time to register for the conference. For further information on the summit go to http://www.worldywca.info/index.php/ywca/world_council_07/iws_women_s_summit.

 

JULY 9-27, 2007: INTERNATIONAL HEALTH IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD: CLINICAL AND COMMUNITY CARE (UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, TUCSON, ARIZONA)

This yearly summer course, begun in 1982 and revised annually, is a multidisciplinary, case-based, problem-solving course preparing fourth-year North American medical students and residents for health care experiences in developing countries. Other health professionals with clinical experience in any medical or public health field may apply as well, but acceptance is limited to the availability of space. Enrollment in the course is limited to 30 (selected by approximately May 1, 2007.) This number allows case-based teaching in 3 groups of 10 students.

This is a full-time (90 class hours), interactive course, with two optional weekend field trips. Faculty are all experienced clinicians from several departments. Visiting medical students receive up to four weeks' elective credit at their home school (which must also arrange the actual overseas preceptorship). The course is designed for students who are actively planning a student or professional experience overseas. Students should be able to document acceptance (pending or final) by an appropriate clinical or community health facility in a developing country. For further information on the summer course and on other global health educational opportunities at the University of Arizona, go to http://www.globalhealth.arizona.edu or contact Dr. Ron Pust at rpust@u.arizona.edu. Dr. Pust is a CCIH member who is happy to share this opportunity with students and professionals motivated by their faith to work overseas.

 

AUGUST 2, 2007 - RESTORING WHOLENESS TO TRAUMATIZED AT-RISK CHILDREN (FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, PASADENA, CA)

This is a pre-conference to the West Coast Healthcare Missions and Ministry Conference. This one-day event sheds light on the world of the at-risk child - children who are homeless, orphaned, sold into the sex trade or are soldiers of war.  Learn what the church's response to the needs of children and learn what you can do to make a difference. For more information, go to http://www.healthcaremissions.org.

 

AUGUST 3 – 4, 2007 –THE 2007 WEST COAST HEALTHCARE MISSIONS AND MINISTRY CONFERENCE - FROM THE WHOLE CHURCH TO THE WHOLE WORLD: GLOBAL AND LOCAL HEALTH (FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, PASADENA, CA)

The 2007 conference combines two Southern California conferences which were held in 2006, the Urban Health Ministry Conference (sponsored by World Impact LA) and the Healthcare Ministry and Missions Conference at Fuller Theological Seminary.  The new conference is geared towards meeting the educational needs of Christian physicians, dentists, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, pharmacists, physical therapists, public health workers, mission pastors, parachurch workers, students and all other healthcare professionals, who are interested in global and/or urban healthcare (medical) missions. For more information, go to http://www.healthcaremissions.org.

 

AUGUST 17-19, 2007: PRE-ICAAP-8 INTRA- AND INTER-FAITH CONFERENCE (COLOMBO, SRI LANKA)

This gathering is a Pre-Conference to the ICAAP-8 Conference (see next event) organized by the Asian Interfaith Network on AIDS (AINA) and supported by the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA – http://www.cca.org.hk) and CCIH member the World Council of Churches (WCC – http:// www.wcc-coe.org ). The aim of the Intra-faith meeting is to enable people of the same faith from across Asia to meet to bond, to share experiences, to become familiar with each others’ work, and to present a united front in the fight against HIV and AIDS. The Inter-faith meeting will allow participants of differing faiths to share the outcomes of their Intra-faith meeting, to share ideas about best practices, to encourage the different faiths to liaise with one another, and to produce an Inter-faith Joint Statement which will be read at the inaugural session of ICAAP. Information on registration for the Pre-conference will be available soon.

 

AUGUST 19-23, 2007: 8th ICAAP - INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON AIDS IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC (COLOMBO, SRI LANKA)

The theme of the 8 th ICAAP is Waves of Change, Waves of Hope. Waves of Change signify many things happening at the same time, taking into account the past, to create a unified effort. There is a mass of activity that needs to be carried out to change the world; creating a ripple-effect that would encompass the whole globe, adapted to suit each environment. The 8 th ICAAP logo is fused with color representing the various communities involved in the fight against HIV and AIDS and the integrated, multi-disciplinary response that is needed. The theme in its entirety gives the powerful imagery of a sea of humanity sharing a common vision to create a better world, a world free from AIDS.

For more information on the 8 th ICAAP, go to http://www.icaap8.lk/index.htm. Registration information may be found at http://www.icaap8.lk/registrationMain.html. Regular registration rates are in effect until May 31.

 

NOVEMBER 4 – 7, 2007 – AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING (WASHINGTON, DC) www.apha.org/meetings

NOVEMBER 8 – 10, 2007 – GLOBAL MISSIONS HEALTH CONFERENCE (SOUTHEAST CHRISTIAN CHURCH, LOUISVILLE, KY) www.medicalmissions.com

NOVEMBER 28 - 30, 2007 – GLOBAL SUMMIT ON AIDS AND THE CHURCH (SADDLEBACK CHURCH, LAKE FOREST, CA) www.purposedriven.com/hiv

AUGUST 3–8, 2008 – INTERNATIONAL AIDS CONFERENCE (MEXICO CITY, MEXICO) (online at http://www.aids2008.org and at http://www.iasociety.org/article/show.asp?article=4975

DECEMBER 8-11, 2008 - 15th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AIDS AND SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS IN AFRICA –ICASA (DAKAR, SENEGAL)

ADDITIONAL CONFERENCES AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

For an extensive list of conferences of interest to or about medical missions (or to give notice about an upcoming conference) visit the website of CCIH Affiliate, Medical Mission Exchange, at http://www.mmex.org/conferences.aspx.

King College Center for Global Health Care, a CCIH member, operates the Peeke School of Christian Mission which offers workshops all year round on a variety of topics in health and Christian missions. For information on upcoming workshops go to http://www.king.edu/Academics/Schools/pscm/cghc/workshops.asp.

For lists of other upcoming public health conferences (both secular and faith-based):

- Subscribe to the Friday letter, a weekly report from the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH) by sending an email to FridayLetter@asph.org. Many other resources, including funding opportunities for both faculty and students, can be found on their website, http://www.asph.org.

- Refer to the website of the Kaiser Family Foundation at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/calendar/calendar.cfm.

- The Global Health Council maintains a calendar of general events with a filter just for conferences at http://www.globalhealth.org/calendar.php.

- The American Public Health Association website has a calendar of events at http://www.apha.org/calendar/. They are also willing to post notices about other conferences.

 

3. OTHER NEWS AND RESOURCES

THE GLOBAL FUND ISSUES CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR ROUND 7 GRANTS

On March 1 The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced its call for proposals for Round 7 grants. All applications must be submitted by July 4, 2007. Information can be found at the GF website at http://www.theglobalfund.org/en/apply/call7. Several useful resources have been produced to help prospective applicants in their proposal writing.

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR - http://www.physiciansforhumanrights.org) - PHR has released a guide on using the Global Fund to support Health Systems Strengthening (HSS). This Guide to Using Round 7 of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to Support Health Systems Strengthening is available at http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/report-2007-03-17.html. Even though the Global Fund does not have a separate Health Systems Strengthening component, there is considerable scope for including Health Systems Strengthening actions needed to reduce the spread and impact of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria in Global Fund proposals. Countries have used the Fund in the past to support a wide variety of systems investments critical to the fight against these killer diseases, such as supporting salaries and expanded training capacity as part of an emergency human resources program, increasing access to health services for the poor, and strengthening primary level health infrastructure.

Aidspan (http://www.aidspan.org) - Aidspan is a non-governmental organization whose mission is to reinforce the effectiveness of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria by serving as an independent watchdog of the Fund, and by providing services that can benefit all countries wishing to obtain and make effective use of Global Fund financing. An introduction to the Round 7 call (http://www.aidspan.org/index.php?issue=72&article=1) gives the following information regarding the differences between the new proposal form and the 2006 form:

• Where the proposal being submitted is similar to a previous proposal that was not approved, applicants are explicitly asked to address the comments that the Technical Review Panel (TRP) made regarding the previous proposal.
• Where the proposal being submitted has some key services in common with an earlier grant, and significant portions of that earlier grant have not yet been disbursed, applicants are asked to explain why the Round 7 proposal covers these same services.
• Where the proposal being submitted specifies a Principal Recipient (PR) that has had some "performance bottlenecks" with an existing grant, applicants are asked to explain how these bottlenecks are addressed in the proposal.
• On the Proposal Form itself, applicants are being asked to submit less complex information on their budgets.
• Although the Proposal Form for Round 7 contains the same five sections used in the Round 6 form, some of the information requested has been moved from one section to another.

Aidspan has also produced a guide to completing the GF application. This can be found at http://www.aidspan.org/index.php?issue=73&article=1.

The Global AIDS Alliance (GAA - http://www.globalaidsalliance.org) - GAA has published Guidelines for Integrating Sexual and Reproductive Health into the HIV/AIDS Component of Country Coordinated Proposals to be submitted to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Round 7 and Beyond. For detailed information about the guidelines go to http://www.globalaidsalliance.org/docs/SRH-HIV_Proposal_Guidelines.cfm.

Recognizing that few Country Coordinated Proposals linking sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV/AIDS have so far been included in Global Fund grant making several organizations (Global AIDS Alliance - GAA, Advocates for Youth - AFY, Interact Worldwide, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, International Planned Parenthood Federation - IPPF, and Population Action International - PAI) worked together to develop these guidelines. The following priority areas are identified in the Guidelines for SRH and HIV/AIDS providers wishing to produce integrated proposals:

• Integration of STI treatment services at the point of service delivery;
• Integration of voluntary testing and counseling at the point of service delivery;
• Scaling-up of adolescent STI and HIV prevention programs;
• Integration of SRH services for vulnerable populations;
• Prevention of parent-/mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMCTC+);
• Provision of antiretroviral therapy and comprehensive care for PLHIV; and
• Combating gender-based violence.

 

NEWLY REVISED BOOKS BY TED LANKESTER

Ted Lankester is currently Director of Health Care at InterHealth, an international health centre whose staff act as health advisors to a wide range of church-based and international aid agencies. He has wide experience in developing countries as well as the UK, where he has also worked as a specialist in primary health care. Ted is also co-founder and director of CCIH member Community Health Global Network http://www.communityhealthglobal.net. Both books described below may be obtained through InterHealth at http://www.interhealth.org.uk/shop or from Teaching Aids at Low Cost (TALC) at http://www.talcuk.org.

Setting Up Community Health Programmes: A Practical Manual for Use in Developing Countries - revised edition - The community approach to primary health care is steadily climbing higher on the global agenda. This makes the publication of a major revision of SUCHP timely. The book incorporates much of the recent research, which has been done in a variety of countries on community-based approaches to primary health care. This revised edition brings the community care of people with HIV into a central position. It deals with the synergy between HIV and TB and offers community based approaches to treatment as well as care and prevention. Download an information sheet about the book at http://www.ccih.org/bulletin/0307files/CommunityHealthLankester07.doc.

The Traveller's Good Health Guide - revised edition - Written in an easy to read style, with cartoons and illustrations, this lively and informative book has been expanded to over 400pages of practical and helpful advice in four sections: Before You Go; Health Traveling; Returning Home; and a Glossary of Infections and diseases. For a pdf information sheet about this book, go to http://www.ccih.org/bulletin/0307files/GoodHealthLankesterFeb07.pdf.

 

SURVEY OF FBO EXPERIENCE WITH PEDIATRIC AIDS TREATMENT DUE APRIL 4

This request comes from the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA- http://www.e-alliance.ch): The Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance is working to promote increased access to pediatric AIDS medicines. In order to plan more effectively, the EAA has designed a questionnaire to survey the experience of faith-based organizations engaged with such treatment services. If you have experience with pediatric AIDS treatment, please consider completing this questionnaire and returning your response as is indicated on the questionnaire. The questionnaire may be downloaded at http://www.ccih.org/bulletin/0307files/eaa_questionnaire_Ped_AIDS.3.07.doc. The deadline for responses is April 4. For further information please contact Thabo Sephuma at tsephuma@e-alliance.ch.

 

THE BOTSWANA REVIEW OF ETHICS, LAW AND HIV/AIDS

The Botswana Review of Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS is a periodical published by the Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA – http://www.bonela.org) based in Gaborone, Botswana. BONELA is a prominent non-governmental organization in the country, dedicated to creating an enabling and just environment for people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS through the integration of ethical, legal, and human rights dimensions into the national response to HIV/AIDS. BONELA is involved in research, training, advocacy, legal assistance and public education. The Botswana Review of Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS is a peer-reviewed journal intended to create a participatory forum for critical and analytical discussion of a broad range of multi-sectoral issues and debates surrounding HIV and AIDS. BONELA is interested in finding persons or organizations willing to distribute this first (and subsequent) journal free of charge. If interested please contact Hitomi Kuwabara for more information at hitomikuwabara@gmail.com or bonela@bonela.org.

 

ENGAGING FAITH-BASED ORGANISATIONS IN DEVELOPMENT

An article with this title appeared recently in id21, an on-line news service broadly supported by the Institute for Development Studies in the UK (see below). The article (http://www.id21.org/society/s8cgc1g1.html) written by Gerard Clarke of the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Wales it encourages donors to look beyond the mainline Christian organizations for programs to fund to fight global policy. He separates FBOs into five types: Representative organizations (e.g. WCC); Charitable/Development organizations (e.g. World Vision); Socio-political organizations (e.g. moderate Islamic groups); Missionary organizations; and Illegal or terrorist organizations (e.g. Hamas). Clarke is challenging donors to think outside the box and even if this goes way beyond the thinking of many people in the CCIH community, it is useful to know what others are saying, particularly from a non-US perspective, and especially when their aim is to influence policymakers. The article also has some useful links to other articles and reports about FBOs.

About id21, from the website (http://www.id21.org/id21-info/index.htm): id21 is part of the “family of Knowledge Services and knowledge sharing and consultancy work” of the Information Department of the Institute of Development Studies (http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/aboutids/index.html).“id21 communicates the latest UK-sourced international development research to policymakers & practitioners worldwide. id21 is useful to everyone interested in development policy and practice, but is of particular interest to development policymakers and practitioners as well as development researchers.” The news is separated into several categories including global, health, education, rural development, urban development and natural resources.

 

THIRD ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS OF PEPFAR: THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIPS

From the PEPFAR website: The third Annual Report describes how partnerships between host nations and the American people through President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) are beginning to turn the tide of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The Emergency Plan is part of a broader renaissance in partnerships for international development. Under the leadership of President George W. Bush, and with the bipartisan support of Congress, this renaissance - with a particular focus on Africa - has represented both a massive commitment of treasure and a change of heart. The United States is changing the paradigm for development, rejecting the flawed “donor-recipient” mentality and replacing it with an ethic of true "partnership." To download the report, go to http://www.pepfar.gov/press/c21604.htm.

 

ON-LINE COURSE ON GLOBAL THREAT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE

This course will focus on infectious diseases from a global public health perspective. The impact of global health on common people in the American Midwest will be considered. We will address the emerging nature of diseases such as SARS, TB, hepatitis, West Nile virus, and avian flu virus.  By the end of the course students will be able to

• define infectious diseases and explain the epidemiology of select diseases;
• define emerging infectious diseases and critique the true scope and danger of diseases commonly reported in the press, including being able to use common measures and tools used in public health;
• explain current global public health problems and challenges;
• explain how infectious diseases around the world impact on people in other regions of the world; and
• read and critique published research papers in the field.

This course is being offered by North Dakota State University Distance and Continuing Education (http://www.ndsu.edu/DCE) and will be taught by CCIH member Mark Strand. Mark is an Adjunct Professor at NDSU and has been working in China for many years with Shanxi Evergreen Service (http://www.evergreenchina.org). To view a flyer about the course, go to http://www.ccih.org/bulletin/0307files/Infectious_Disease_Course.doc. To register, go to http://www.ndsu.edu/DCE/getphp/coursedescription.php?id=1122&snumber=2374.

4. GRANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

The following list of grants and other funding opportunities appears monthly. CCIH welcomes information leading to new and varied sources of funding to share with its membership. Please contact Sharon at sfranzen@ccih.org. Please note that the list is now divided between entries that have been newly identified this month and those which have been previously listed. We hope that this will assist you in sifting through the information.

NEW LISTINGS AND UPDATES

USAID RFA: PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION LEADER WITH ASSOCIATE COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT (PHDC) NEW

Funding Opportunity Number: USAID-WASHINGTON-M-OAA-GH-07-315-RFA

Estimated Total Program Funding: $175,000,000

Funding Instrument type: Cooperative Agreement

Closing Date for Applications: April 17, 2007

 

USAID is seeking applications for a Leader with Associates Cooperative Agreement from eligible U.S. for-profit, non-profit, or private voluntary organization registered with USAID. The objective of the RFA is to ensure that effectiveness and sustainability of communication programs are improved. USAID seeks assistance in development communication for programs in health, environment, economic growth and poverty alleviation, democracy and governance, social transition, and education.

 

For more information, go to http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?revNum=0&mode=VIEWREVISIONS.

 

 

HHS PA: DRUG ABUSE, RISKY DECISION MAKING AND HIV/AIDS (RO1) NEW

Funding Opportunity Number: PAS-07-324

Parallel FOAs:PAS-07-325; PAS-07-326

Estimated Total Program Funding: $2,000,000

Funding Instrument type: Grant

Closing Date for Applications: Multiple dates, next deadline is May 7, 2007

This program announcement is intended to stimulate model driven research that will increase understanding of how drugs of abuse or processes of addiction influence decisions about high risk sexual behavior, thereby enhancing vulnerability for acquiring or transmitting HIV. Research supported by this announcement will emphasize interdisciplinary studies that incorporate approaches from psychology, economics, anthropology, sociology, decision sciences, neuroscience and computational modeling.

For more information, go to http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=12452&mode=VIEW. For additional information, go to http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/locates/LocateFund.asp?SearchType=Simple and search for Fund Number 3276.

 

NIH FOA: DRUG ABUSE ASPECTS OF HIV/AIDS (R01) NEW

Funding Opportunity Number: PA-07-307

Parallel FOAs: PA-07-308; PA-07-309

Estimated Total Program Funding:

Funding Instrument type: Grant

Closing Date for Applications: Multiple dates, next deadline is May 7, 2007

 

The purpose of this FOA is to encourage drug abuse research to address the changing dynamics of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S and Internationally: studies are needed on how to translate and adapt interventions that have proved effective in the U.S. to other communities and international settings and to learn from other conditions and cultures to inform our understanding of the causes, consequences, and differences in HIV-associated risks, morbidity, and mortality in diverse populations.

 

For more information, go to http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=12292&mode=VIEW. For additional information, go to http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/locates/LocateFund.asp?SearchType=Simple and search for Fund Numbers 3272, 3273, and 3274.

 

 

CDC RFA: STRENGTHENING HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS CAPACITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE OF EMERGENCY PLAN PARTNERS IN THE REPUBLIC OF MALAWI UNDER THE PRESIDENT’S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF (PEPFAR) NEW

Funding Opportunity Number: CDC-RFA-PS07-702

Estimated Total Program Funding: $125,000

Funding Instrument type: Cooperative Agreement

Closing Date for Applications: May 21, 2007

 

Approximately $125,000 will be available in fiscal year 2007 to fund approximately one award. The purpose of the program is to strengthen the capacity in health-information systems within U.S. Government implementing partners, including the Ministry of Health of Malawi and non-governmental organizations. The estimated funding date is prior to August 31, 2007.

 

For more information, go to http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=13140&mode=VIEW.For additional information, go to http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/locates/LocateFund.asp?SearchType=Simple and search for Fund Number 3293.

 

 

STOP TB PARTNERSHIP: CHALLENGE FACILITY FOR CIVIL SOCIETY NEW

Total Program Funding: Small grants between $5000 and $20,000 for one year

Closing Date for Proposals: May 22, 2007

 

This Challenge Facility for Civil Society (CFCS) will provide financial support to small groups of civil society organizations such as NGOs, self-help groups and women's groups seeking to make the collective voice of the TB community heard. It is targeted at civil society groups operating at the grass roots level and seeking to shape policy-making at local and national levels by giving a voice to people living with TB and those involved in their care. Their activities are expected to increase awareness among the policy makers to enhance the resources allocated to TB control and improve access by the public, particularly the poorest sections of society to available public health infrastructure, especially that for TB.

For more information, go to http://www.stoptb.org/bi/cfcs.

 

USAID RFA: MALARIA COMMUNITIES PROGRAM (MCP) REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS DEADLINE ANNOUNCED

Funding Opportunity Number: USAID-M-OAA-GH-07-858

Estimated Funding: $200,000 - $300,000 per year for 3-5 years

Award Ceiling: $7,500,000

Funding Instrument type: Cooperative Agreement

Closing Date for Applications: May 31, 2007

This FY07 RFA is the first under the Malaria Communities Program (MCP). (See http://www.ccih.org/bulletin/1206.htm#31 and http://www.ccih.org/bulletin/0207.htm#8 in previous CCIH bulletins for a discussion of the program). The purpose will be to increase local and indigenous capacity to undertake community-based malaria prevention and treatment activities, and to build local ownership of malaria control for long term, sustainable education and training to fight malaria. Successful applicants will receive post-award capacity-building assistance focusing on areas such as successful program implementation, needs analysis, and organizational strengthening through a USAID technical support contract. Applicants may submit budget requests for a maximum of $1.5 million per total award to be used over a three-to-five year award period which would be incrementally funded with $200,000 - $300,000 on average per year. Pending the availability of funds, it is anticipated that three to five cooperative agreement awards will be made under this RFA. Also, pending the availability of funds, it is anticipated that beginning in FY08 an RFA under the MCP will be issued on an annual basis. Eligible applicants may only submit one application in response to this RFA.

For more information on the RFA, go to http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=13262&mode=VIEW. For more information about the MCP, see http://www.fightingmalaria.gov/resources/mcp_factsheet.pdf.

 

PAN AMERICAN HEALTH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM NEW

Estimated Total Program Funding: $5000 - 25,000 for one or two years

Closing Date for Applications: June 1, 2007

The Pan American Health and Education Foundation (PAHEF) Small Grants Program (SGP) supports innovative, results-oriented projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The 2007-08 SGP focuses on two priority areas: 1. promoting healthy aging and 2. combating childhood obesity and improving nutrition.

For more information, go to http://www.pahef.org/grants/smallgrants.

 

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES: SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM NEW DEADLINE

Funding Opportunity: up to 5 grants are awarded annually for up to $6000

Closing date for Applications: various, next cycle is October 1, 2007

 

The Small Grants Program is designed to fund pilot research projects by young investigators in developing countries. The goal is to support and foster the professional development of young individuals in the field of infectious diseases research by helping them to acquire additional skills and data to apply for other grants. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to investigations of the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis or treatment of infectious diseases, the epidemiology and control of hospital-acquired infections, and modeling of cost effective interventions. Upon completion of the project, a written report of the project must be sent to the Society.

 

For information, go to the Society website at http://www.isid.org/programs/prog_smgrants.shtml.

 

USAID APS: THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF - NEW PARTNERS INITIATIVE NOTE: REVISED DEADLINE FOR CONCEPT PAPERS

Funding Opportunity Number: M-OAA-GH-HSR-06-937

Estimated Total Program Funding: $200,000,000

Funding Instrument type: Cooperative Agreement

Closing Deadline for Concept Paper Review : October 5, 2007

 

The NPI is a $200 million allocation under PEPFAR specifically for faith and community based organizations. Eligible organizations are nongovernmental organizations, working in any of the fifteen Emergency Plan focus countries, with little or no experience working with the U.S. Government -- defined as no more than $5 million in U.S. Government funding during the preceding five years, excluding disaster or emergency assistance or funding as a subcontractor. NPI funding is for AIDS prevention and care activities but not for treatment. Concept papers submitted after November 15, 2006 and received by October 5, 2007 will constitute the third and last concept papers and will receive the final and last review under the APS. There shall be no fourth submission of concept papers. Concept papers submitted under the February 15, 2007 deadline, as amended to March 30, 2007, will be retained by USAID until the above new final deadline of October 5, 2007. Due to the change in submission dates, organizations that have already submitted concept papers for the third round of reviews are permitted to withdraw those concept papers and submit updated concept papers if they choose to. In addition, USAID will continue to accept concept papers after March 30, 2007 until the new final deadline of October 5, 2007.

For more information go to http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=8637&mode=VIEW. General information is also available at http://www.pepfarnpi.gov/.

 

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