SYNERGY ONLINE:  Bulletins and News Briefs from
The Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH)
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the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
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Please note that the following two articles in
yesterday's Synergy Online (English version only) became
scrambled together in transmission.  They should read as
follows:
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World in Common, A Speaker Series:  Building a Win-Win
World:  Life Beyond Global Economic Warfare Featuring
Hazel Henderson
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Hazel Henderson is an independent futurist, worldwide
syndicated columnist, and a consultant on sustainable
development.  An editor of "Futures" (U.K.)
and "WorldPaper," she serves on many boards, including
the Calvert Social Investment Fund, the Council of
Economic Priorities, and the Worldwatch Institute.  She
is the author of "Creating Alternative Futures" and
"Paradigms In Progress."  Her most recent book,
"Building a Win-Win World," provides a serious critique
of traditional economic "wisdom" and turns our
imagination to real opportunities that exist to create a
more equitable global economic order.  Dr. Henderson
will be speaking on Wednesday, May 27, 1998 at Holiday
Inn Plaza La Chaudiere, 2 Montcalm Street, Hull, Quebec
7:00pm  (Doors open at 6:30pm).

About World in Common:  The Canadian Council for
International Co-operation (CCIC), a coalition of 100
leading international development organisations such as
OXFAM, CARE, Canada World Youth and CUSO, has developed
a Speaker Series to showcase novel ideas and renew
debate about the possibilities that exist to end global
poverty.  For more information, please call CCIC at
(613) 241-7007 ext.338.
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TDR Workshop Held in Toronto and Ottawa
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The Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH), in
collaboration with the Special Programme for Research
and Training in Tropical Disease (TDR) of the World
Health Organization (WHO), and the Centre for Research
on Women's Health (CRWH), held two workshops in relation
to the Healthy Women Counselling Guide (HWCG), in
Toronto and Ottawa from March 30 to April 9, 1998.

The meetings had the following broad objectives:  to
develop training materials for potential implementers
and promote dissemination and wider implementation of
the HWCG methodology; and to design protocols for
operational research on the impact of the HWCG and on
the process of the uptake in new settings.  The meetings
was attended with a total of 27 participants from
Switzerland, India, Nigeria, Kenya, Philippines, United
Kingdom, Louisiana, Guatemala, South Africa, and Canada.
The Canadian Society for International Health was
responsible for the organization of these meetings.
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