Synergy Online -- August 1, 2002

In this issue:
-APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR THE 2003 PAHO TRAINING PROGRAM IN
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH EXTENDED TO AUGUST 9!
-9TH CANADIAN CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL HEALTH: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
-7TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SUMMIT: "PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
FOR HEALTH GAIN"
-EUROPEAN UNION TO MAKE UP FOR LOST U.S. FUNDING TO THE UNITED NATIONS
POPULATION FUND
-HIDDEN LINKS: IRRIGATION, MALARIA, AND GENDER
-RED CROSS AMPUTEE PROGRAM IN NORTH KOREA
-UNICEF TARGETS OVER 1 MILLION AFGHAN CHILDREN FOR POLIO IMMUNIZATION
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APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR THE 2003 PAHO TRAINING PROGRAM IN INTERNATIONAL
HEALTH EXTENDED TO AUGUST 9!

Young health professionals who demonstrate leadership skills and a keen
interest in the international dimensions of health are invited to apply
for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) 17th Training Program in
International Health (TPIH-2003). The training process involves
participants in a work-study format at PAHO headquarters in Washington
DC for a period of eleven months, starting January 27, 2003. If you are
interested, send your application before Friday, August 9, 2002! You
will find information and application forms at:
http://www.paho.org/english/HSP/HSR/pfsiabout.htm.

PLEASE NOTE: all Canadian candidates MUST send their applications duly
completed with required documents by mail to: Maria Victoria Palacio,
CSIH-PAHO Liaison Assistant, One Nicholas, Suite 1105, Ottawa K1N 7B7.
Do not hesitate to communicate with us if you have questions:
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9TH CANADIAN CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL HEALTH: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

The 9th Annual Canadian Conference on International Health, hosted by
the Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH), will be held in
Ottawa, October 27-30. This year's conference will feature 9 keynote
speakers, including:  Mira Shiva, Head of Public Policy, the Voluntary
Health Association of India; Neil McKee, Senior Technical Advisor on
HIV/AIDS and Child Health, Johns Hopkins University; Karen Anderson,
Founder and former Director of Education, Popular en Salud;  Marian
Jacobs, Head of the Child Health Unit, University of Cape Town, South
Africa; Mary Ann Lansang, Executive Director of INCLEN Trust; and Juan
Antonio Casas, Director of the Division of Health and Human
Development, PAHO.  For more information, visit the conference website:
http://www.csih.org/what/conferences.html, or contact
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7TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL HEALTH SUMMIT: "PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS FOR
HEALTH GAIN"

The 7th Annual International Health Summit will take place in Miami,
Florida, December 8-11, 2002.  This year's theme is: "Exploring how new
knowledge management can help leaders improve the performance of
public-private partnerships for health gain." The keynote address,
"Balancing WTO and WHO Priorities for Health," will be given by Dr.
Derek Yach, Executive Director of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental
Health, WHO.  For further details, visit the summit website:
http://www.ihsummit.com.
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EUROPEAN UNION TO MAKE UP FOR LOST U.S. FUNDING TO THE UNITED NATIONS
POPULATION FUND

In the wake of lost funding from the United States, the United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA) has welcomed a new pledge by the European Union
(EU) of 32 million euros for sexual and reproductive health projects in
nearly two dozen developing countries. The money will fund a joint
effort carried out by UNFPA in partnership with the EU and the
International Planned Parenthood Federation to provide poor countries
with family planning services and advice on population and health
issues. For the full press release, visit:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=4281&Cr=UNFPA&Cr1=.
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HIDDEN LINKS: IRRIGATION, MALARIA, AND GENDER

In African countries, where the weather is extremely variable,
irrigation is seen as one obvious way to increase agricultural
production. However, irrigation affects more than the crops that grow in
farmers’ fields. In fact, researchers around the world are finding that
irrigation can also affect people’s health in sometimes unexpected ways.
Malaria is a case in point. By increasing wet areas, irrigation can
increase breeding grounds for mosquitoes — the main vectors (or
carriers) of malaria. This, in turn, increases the likelihood that
people living nearby will contract the disease. Moreover, a recent study
by Renaud De Plaen, a researcher with Canada’s International Development
Research Centre (IDRC), suggests that the impact of irrigation on health
extends even further. When farmers start irrigating their fields, a
whole range of social and economic changes take place. These
particularly affect women — and can change the way malaria cases are
treated in children.  For the full feature article, visit IDRC's online
Reports magazine:
http://www.idrc.ca/reports/read_article_english.cfm?article_num=1074.
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RED CROSS AMPUTEE PROGRAM IN NORTH KOREA

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is making final
preparations to launch an amputee rehabilitation program in North Korea.
A building that will house a new prosthetic centre in Songrim, 30
kilometres south of the capital Pyongyang, was inaugurated at a ceremony
on July 16. The training of 12 local staff, who will produce artificial
limbs and teach amputees to walk again, continues. The centre is
expected to produce up to 1,000 prostheses during the first year.  For
more information, visit:
http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/5C6HSM?OpenDocument&style=
custo_final.
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UNICEF TARGETS OVER 1 MILLION AFGHAN CHILDREN FOR POLIO IMMUNIZATION

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has completed a three-day
drive to immunize over a million youngsters in Afghanistan against the
crippling polio virus. The campaign, which involved more than 6,500
vaccinators, aimed to reach around 1.2 million children under the age of
five across the southern, south-eastern and eastern regions of
Afghanistan. It is part of a nationwide effort which began in April. The
current round is being synchronized with a similar exercise in Pakistan
"to ensure good coverage of the border regions, which are high risk
areas for cross-border transmission of the virus," UNICEF spokesman
Eddie Carwardine told reporters in Kabul. He noted that Afghanistan's
two confirmed polio cases this year were in Nangahar and Helmand
provinces, and that the virus was likely to have been imported from
Pakistan.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=4283&Cr=afghanistan&Cr1=
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