Training: Promoting gender and human rights in reproductive health and HIV/AIDS

The Center for African Family Studies (CAFS), in collaboration with the World Health Organization Secretariat, Women's Health Project of the University of Witwatersrand and the Harvard School of Public Health, is offering a three-week course on gender and rights in reproductive health and HIV and AIDS. This will be held from 24 October to 11 November 2005 in Nairobi, Kenya. The course will highlight regional priorities and current controversies in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and Beijing Programmes of Action,
particularly in the context of HIV and AIDS.

Topics to be covered include: the gender concept and reproductive health, gender analysis, gender policy approaches, gender mainstreaming in reproductive health and HIV and AIDS programmes, the social determinants of health, health systems analysis, sexual and reproductive rights, and gender and HIV and AIDS. The course is suitable for senior and middle-level managers, planners and policymakers from both the public and NGO sectors, who are directly responsible for influencing or making policy to implement
the MDGs and the Cairo and Beijing Programmes of Action. For further information, contact Centre for African Family Studies (CAFS), P.O. Box 60054, 00200 Nairobi, Kenya; tel.: 254-20-444 86 18, fax: 254-20-444 86 21 or e-mail: [email protected]