Call for Applicants: Course On Empowerment, HIV, & Violence agansit Women

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CALL FOR APPLICANTS

COURSE ON EMPOWERMENT, HIV, & VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Contact: lucianod@...

Course Applications Due May 27 - Fellowship Applications Due May 22

Global edition of the course " Empowerment, HIV and Violence against Women "

Participants

The target population includes managers, decision-makers at national

and local levels, service providers and advocators for people living

with HIV and women's rights.

Dates: Jun 22 - Oct 8, 2009

Coordinators of the course:

Nazneen Damji (UNIFEM) and

Dinys Luciano (Development Connections)

Applications: The registration form must be sent by May 27, 2009.

Fellowships: 25 fellowships are available for candidates that can

demonstrate how they will apply the skills obtained in the course

within their organizations and who will commit to completing the

course. Those individuals interested in applying for a fellowship

should submit a request to info@... by May 22, 2009.

For more information on the course please contact:

Dinys Luciano: lucianod@...

HIV and violence against women (VAW) are two pandemics putting women's

health, wellbeing, and lives at risk. Evidence shows that violence may

be a leading factor in the increasing " feminization " of the AIDS

pandemic in many countries, and HIV can be both a cause and a

consequence of VAW. Integrating HIV and VAW policies and programs,

based on an empowerment approach, will enhance their effectiveness and

impact by increasing women's access to comprehensive services of care

and prevention.

Objectives

This course aims to develop competencies of human resources from

governmental and non-governmental organizations to integrate HIV and

VAW in prevention, treatment and care interception as well as to

respond to emerging policy issues regarding both problems. The

specific objectives are:

To analyze the empowerment conceptual framework and its

operationalization addressing HIV and VAW.

To examine the strategic and practical implications for integrating

policies and programs on HIV and VAW.

To manage tools for carrying out processes within organizations and

intersectoral levels directed toward integration of both issues.

Modules

I. Conceptual framework: Intersections between HIV and VAW,

international commitments and national legislation, empowerment

approach applied to HIV and VAW and methodological issues regarding

scientific evidence on HIV and VAW

II. Prevention: Prevention strategies from a public health approach,

best practices on HIV and VAW prevention.

III. Care and treatment: Voluntary counseling and testing, access to

treatment, adherence strategies and VAW,  HIV perinatal transmission

and VAW, integrating HIV within VAW services: screening, care,

referral systems, and support groups.

IV. Considerations for special populations: young girls and

adolescents, indigenous communities, migrants, sex workers, prisoners,

injected drug users, among others.

Methodology and learning resources

The course is online and has a total duration of 95 hours. It includes

online activities and workplace field tasks. Depending on the needs

and possibilities in each country, participants may form small groups

for face-to-face sessions with the online support of a tutor. The

learning resources, for use in group discussions, working groups,

virtual forums and assessments within the participants' organizations,

include: cases, databases, glossary, checklists and other assessment

tools, bibliography, and presentations.

The course will be taught in English.

Development Connections

1629 K Street NW Suite 300

Washington DC 20006

(202) 466-0978

 

Released by:

ADVOCACY, POLICY & COMMUNICATION DIVISION

AHF INDIA CARES

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