*==================================================================* * SYNERGY ONLINE: Bulletins and News Briefs from * * The Canadian Society for International Health * * [log in to unmask] * *==================================================================* WOMEN AND AIDS WORKSHOP ------------------------ The Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development is offering a two-day workshop titled "Women and HIV/AIDS: Local Action for a Global Response," at St. Paul University, Ottawa, October 21 and 22. Attending will be Elizabeth Reid, director of the UNDP's HIV and Development Program; Pricilla Misihairabwi, coordinator of the Women and AIDS Support Network, Harare, Zimbabwe; Felicia Sakala, primary health care coordinator of the YWCA Council of Zambia; Amaya Maw Naing, Bangsue project manager and health advisor, World Vision Foundation of Thailand; Beth Easton, coordinator of the Women's Project, AIDS Vancouver; and Trudy Parsons, women's coordinator, AIDS Committee of Newfoundland and Labrador. The workshop will examine the susceptibility of women to AIDS throughout the world and how they are coping - both with their own disease and AIDS in their families and communities. Grassroots service groups, multilateral agencies, international development NGOs and AIDS service organizations are expected to participate. Registration fee of $100 includes lunch each day, a resource kit and a copy of the workshop report. Contact: ICAD, 100 Argyle Ave., Ottawa, ON. K2P 1B4. Tel: (613) 788-5107. Fax: (613) 788-5052. ---------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------- The Third National Conference of The Canadian Council on Multicultural Health, titled "Innovating in Hard Times," to be held May 17-20, 1995, in Montreal, has issued a call for papers. The conference will focus on issues and implementation strategies within our present economic situation. Building on the experience of the previous conferences, it will focus on developments and strategies that have been successfully implemented and the progress made since the 1992 conference. Those submitting presentations are encouraged to do so within the context of the conference sub-themes: accessibility of services (meeting the challenges); partnerships and collaboration (the shape of the future); and innovation in action. Submission deadline is October 31, 1994. For more information, contact: Innovating in Hard Times, The Conference Committee, CCMH- CCSM, Suite 400, 1017 Wilson Avenue, Downsview, ON, M3K 1Z1. Tel: (416) 630-8835. Fax: (416) 638-6076. ----------------- NEW PUBLICATIONS ----------------- _Basic Concepts of International Health_, a new health and development manual produced by the Canadian University Consortium on Health & Development (CUCHID), is in module form. The modules provide a hands-on approach to a 10-day participatory workshop designed as an introduction to working internationally. The material included in the modules is also suitable for a university course in health and development and can be easily split into sections. It includes cross-cultural exercises and lavish illustrations to capture key points. Gender, environment and development issues are interwoven through the text. Tips, feedback, detailed instructions, examples, a how-to-use section and general notes for facilitators are provided for each session. There are additional pointers and assistance for first-time facilitators. The cost is $25 and funds from the sales of the book will finance workshops overseas to test and promote the use of the resource and will allow the book to be sold at a reduced rate in developing countries. Available from: CUCHID, 170 Laurier Ave. W., Ste 902, Ottawa, ON, K1P 5V5. Elsevier Science, book publishers, announce a social science special issue of _Acta Tropica_, their international journal covering biomedical and health sciences with particular emphasis on topics relevant to human and animal health in the tropics and sub-tropics. The special issue is titled "Institutional Strengthening and the Development of Research Capacity in the Social Sciences." The issue is available to non-subscribers from Elsevier Science, P.O. Box 1527, 1000 BM Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel: (+31) 20 5803 911. Fax (+31) 20 5803 375. E-mail [log in to unmask] Elsevier offers a reduced subscription rate for members of various national tropical health and parasitology societies: three volumes (12 monthly issues) of Acta Tropica for 1994 for Dfl. 162.00, including postage. *==================================================================* * SYNERGY ONLINE is an online update to _SYNERGY_, the quarterly * * newsletter of the Canadian Society for International Health. * * For more information contact [log in to unmask] * *==================================================================*