HIV/AIDS

The NILE African Development organisation (NAD) and African Achievers International Award (AAIA) Team wishes to invite everyone to start nominating for the 2011 African MDG Achievers International Awards.

The African MDG Achievers International Awards is a not for profit program managed by The NILE African Development organisation a not-for-profit organisation. The awards mission is to generate greater understanding of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to galvanize public support for their achievement, and to honor exceptional efforts to achieve the goals.

Rising Voices (http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org) is pleased to announce the release of "Blogging Positively," a collection of case studies, interviews, and best practices about citizen media related to HIV/AIDS.

Copies in PDF form can be downloaded here: http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/guides

Dear Friends,

This Valentine's Day (February 14), Global Voices--a leading participatory media news room for voices from the developing world--will be launching a campaign called "Teach Someone You Love To Blog Or Micro-Blog." Please participate in this exciting project by following the simple steps on this post:

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/02/11/on-valentines-teach-someone-you-love-to-blog-or-micro-blog/

Global Voices and its outreach arm, Rising Voices, are at the forefront of citizen-journalism activities related to issues such as health, development, and ICTs. This "teach-in" marks the start of a series of health-related activities specifically focusing on HIV/AIDS.

 

 

Africa Action Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Michael Stulman (202) 546-7961

Africa Action Releases "Africa Policy Outlook 2009"

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 (Washington, DC) – Today Africa Action released its Africa Policy Outlook for 2009.  This annual publication was released one week after the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama and as millions across the African continent celebrate the new opportunities his presidency offers.

The Outlook identifies several large-scale challenges facing the Obama Administration, including humanitarian disasters in Somalia, the Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It suggests that the unilateral and militarized U.S. policy towards Africa has made African people more vulnerable over the last 7 years.

"Instead of dividing Africa up between friends and enemies, Outlook urges an inclusive and multilateral approach, designed to increase voluntary cooperation, bolster UN and hybrid UN-African Union peacekeeping operations, and project long term solutions to the greatest challenge to security and stability in Africa, poverty.” said Gerald LeMelle, Executive Director of Africa Action.

Dear All

Please pass this on to your networks:

Women'sNet and Cell-Life are partners in a global study about how social networking* technology has changed and will change the way people communicate about issues and behaviours that impact on HIV vulnerability.

We are examining initiatives in South Africa that use social networks - mobile or online- that deal in part or in whole, with HIV/AIDS.

Dear Friends,

Here is a summary of the Rising Voices World AIDS Day chat, held on December 3, 2008. The next chat will be on February 9th, 2009, and I will post more details as I know them.

It is great that several Kabissa members were at the chat, and we hope for even more next time! There are also some other wonderful opportunities below:

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