Siyanda Update: Issue No. 4, August 2002
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INDEX:
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I. Database Highlights: Gender and HIV/AIDS
II. Partner Profile: FEMNET
III. Websites of Interest: HIV/AIDS
IV. Up-coming Events: Women's Rights and Citizenship in Egypt
VI. BRIDGE Publications: Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Cultural Change
I. Database Highlights: Resources on Gender and HIV/AIDS:
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- Gender and HIV/AIDS: Guidelines for Integrating a Gender Focus into NGO Work
on HIV/AIDS, ActionAid, ACORD and Save the Children, 2002
This is a short, practical resource to assist staff of international and local
non-governmental organisations (NGOS) with carrying out research and planning
HIV/AIDS interventions more effectively.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/actionaid.htm
- Straight Talk and Young Talk (monthly newsletter), Straight Talk Foundation,
2002
A monthly newspaper on HIV/AIDS published in Uganda and aimed at students and
young adults
http://www.siyanda.org/static/straighttalk.htm
- Promoting the Participation of Men in Community-based HIV/AIDS Prevention
and Care in Cambodia, Sellers, T., Panhavichetr, P., Chansophal, L. and Maclean,
A., Forthcoming
Article exploring the gendered dynamics of HIV/AIDS transmission, prevention
and care in Cambodia
http://www.siyanda.org/static/cambodiahiv.htm
- Working with Young Men, Instituto PROMUNDO, 2002
A set of training manuals on ‘sexual and reproductive health’, ‘mental
health’, ‘violence prevention’, ‘fatherhood and caregiving’
and ‘HIV/AIDS’
http://www.siyanda.org/static/promundohiv.htm
- Turning the Tide: CEDAW and the Gender Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic,
UNIFEM, 2002
This book contributes to an increased understanding of how women’s human
rights can be put to work to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic from a gender perspective.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/cedawhiv.htm
- AIDS: Gendering the Response, Ryan, Gladys and Tallis, Vicci, 2001
This training aid, which includes a video of the same name, is to help educators
and trainers facilitate discussions with development practitioners on dealing
with the issue of gender and HIV/AIDS in their work.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/gladysaids.htm
- Danger and Opportunity: Responding to HIV with Vision, Butcher, Kate and
Welbourn, Alice, 2001
Article showcasing examples of successful community-development work focussing
on HIV and gender relations.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/butcherhiv.htm
- The Female Condom: A Guide for Planning and Programming, WHO and UNAIDS,
2000
A resource offering guidance to programme managers on developing or expanding
reproductive and sexual health programmes to include the female condom.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/femalecondom.htm
- AIDS, Sexuality and Gender in Africa: Collective Strategies and Struggles
in Tanzania and Zambia, Bujra, Janet and Baylies, Caroline, 2000
A book exploring gender dynamics in these two countries, and how they impact
women's' struggle against HIV/AIDS
http://www.siyanda.org/static/bujraaids.htm
More Siyanda resources on gender and HIV/AIDS can be found here:
http://www.siyanda.org/Search/
(type "HIV/AIDS" in the keywords field)
II. Partner Profile:
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The African Women Development Communication Network (FEMNET)
http://www.femnet.or.ke/
FEMNET was created in 1988 as a consortium of five subregional networks representing different parts of the African continent. This network aims to strengthen the role of NGOs working to mainstream gender in the African development process. Since its inception, FEMNET has successfully implemented the Gender-Responsive Planning Project; The African Girl Child Project and the FEMNET News project. For additional information on this network, write to: femnet@africaonline.co.ke, P.O. Box 54562, Nairobi, Kenya.
(Each month we will feature a different organisation affiliated with Siyanda)
III. Websites of Interest:
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- Women at Barcelona: XIV International AIDS Conference
This is an international coalition of scientists, researchers, activists, service
providers and HIV+ women that coordinated a series of events to highlight gender
issues and build women's visibility at the International AIDS Conference that
took place in Barcelona this July.
- The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW)
http://www.icw.org/
Formed by a group of HIV positive women in 1992, ICW is the only international
network for, by and about HIV positive women. This electronic community is best
know for drawing up the "Twelve Statements", which relate to the issues
and needs facing all women living with HIV worldwide.
IV. Up-coming Events:
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Reassessing Gender Training Workshop-Egypt
The Institute for Gender and Women's Studies at the American University in Cairo will host the second workshop in its Reassessing Gender Training Series: Women's Rights and Citizenship in Egypt
This workshop centers on a discussion of legal and other rights as constructed
by states, activists, and academics in Egypt. The domain of rights is one that
is shaped by official, radical, secular/feminist and Islamic discourses and
is an arena where national and international players are engaged. The workshop
will attempt to provide a forum for the consideration and appreciation of these
varying visions and how they structure the present and future of women in society,
as well as research on their roles as citizens. The workshop will also question
the meaning of modernization, national identity and globalization as projected
by on the ground efforts to realize different rights for different women. Participants
will be invited to give formal written presentations in English on the issue.
Abstracts in English by August 30, 2002 (250 words). Written interventions are
expected by October 10th 2002. These will be distributed to all participants
prior to the workshop. For more information regarding the workshop write to
Dr. Hania Sholkamy: hanias@aucegypt.edu. Abstracts and papers should be submitted
to the IGWS Secretariat: igws@aucegypt.edu.
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V. BRIDGE Publications:
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Cutting Edge Pack (CEP) on Gender and Cultural Change
BRIDGE has just launched the new CEP- 'Gender and Cultural Change', by Susie Jolly. This is the second pack in the series and contains an Overview Report and a Collection of Supporting Resources together with the latest issue of Development and Gender Inbrief on the same theme. The pack is free to download from: http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/reports_gend_CEP.html. Paper copies are available from Publications for £20, and a limited number will be distributed free to organisations based in the south. Please write us at bridge@ids.ac.uk to let us know of any colleagues who you feel may benefit from a copy of the pack.
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