Invitation: National Seminar on AIDS in Kerala

[Guest guest]

Dear FORUM,

Kerala Health Studies and Research Centre (KHSRC) announces a National Seminar

on ‘HIV/AIDS in Kerala – Emerging Trends and Future Perspectives for Action’ to

be held on 22nd and 23rd May 2004 at Trivandrum, Kerala, India. The seminar is

to delve on the following thematic areas:

1. HIV in Kerala – an overview (Covers epidemiological, socio-cultural and

political issues)

2. Response to the epidemic (Historical perspective with focus on stigma and

discrimination, state response, responses of various professions, civil society

response, civil society organisations’ response, Professional organisations’

responses etc)

3. The left out and the marginalized (Women, children, sexual minorities, CSWs,

tribals, migrant workers, poor and the migrants)

4. Policy challenges (Prevention and prevention needs, care and treatment,

resource mobilisation and resource management, social and political

mobilisation, vaccine trials)

5. 3/5 initiatives of WHO and Kerala

Seminar is to be organised in various sessions, with key note presentations on

each theme to be followed by presentations by participants. Research papers,

case studies and testimonies are invited under the themes mentioned above.

Dates to note:

Last date for submission of abstracts : 20 April 2004

Last date for Participant registration : 10 May 2004

Last date for submission of completed papers : 15 May 2004

Format for registration

1. Name

2. Designation

3. Organisation/ Institution/ Individual

4. Address for correspondence

5. E mail

6. Telephone

7. Fax

8. Whether presenting any paper

9.If yes, a. Title b. Thematic area

Registration fee Rs. 100 (covers seminar materials and food during seminar

hours) to be paid only on 22 May 2004. For registration, mail to Organising

Secretary, in the address khsrc@.... (For prompt and early reply

please specify ‘National workshop Kerala’ as subject).

Organising Secretary

National Seminar on ‘HIV/AIDS in Kerala – Emerging Trends and Future

Perspectives for Action’

Kerala Health Studies and Research Centre

AN-197, Adarsh Nagar, Pattom, Trivandrum – 695004

Kerala, India

E-mail: khsrc@...