AFRO-NETS> The Drum Beat - 89 - UPCOMING EVENTS

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The Drum Beat - 89 - UPCOMING EVENTS
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This Drum Beat features a range of upcoming Events that provide op-
portunities to engage, debate, learn and contribute on the issues and 
topics of interest to you. 

For a more extensive listing, organised by month, with a keyword 
search for all entries, please see the new Events Calendar section on 
The Communication Initiative web site:
http://www.comminit.com/2001-events.html

The Events Calendar is designed to provide you with a 'one-stop' 
place to review upcoming conferences, meetings, workshops, forums and 
other events for you to choose those events most relevant to your 
work. 

We very much welcome information on events that you may be organis-
ing. Please send to Janice Innes <jinnes@comminit.com>


EVENTS

1. AIDS: First International Summit for Generics - May 3rd to 7th - 
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - summit is an initiative of committed pro-
treatment access People With AIDS groups, working in more than 30 
countries, most of them from Africa. It will enable participants to 
study all perspectives of production and importation of generic 
drugs, or good quality copies.
Contact Sylvain Coudret 
mailto:planetafrica@asso.globenet.org
http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2001/40-event.html


2. 2nd Africa Telehealth Conference - May 7th to 10th - Kampala, 
Uganda - goal is to characterize how telecommunication resources, 
computer-based information systems and appropriate health information 
infrastructures can be utilized to advance the general health condi-
tions of African society.
Contact Ivan Semakuka 
mailto:icslwanga@yahoo.com
http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2001/35-event.html


3. Building Bridges with Traditional Knowledge Conference - May 28th 
to June 3rd - Honolulu, Hawaii - the conference is designed to ex-
plore approaches to economic development within a framework of envi-
ronmental and cultural conservation.
Contact mailto:bbt2@hawaii.edu
http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2001/37-event.html


4. Healthy Women Healthy World, Challenges for the Future Conference 
- May 29th to June 1st - Washington D.C., USA - conference theme fo-
cuses on women, and the interplay of women's health with the health 
of families and communities.
Contact mailto:conference@globalhealth.org
http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2001/63-event.html


5. 7th Annual Innovations in Social Marketing Conference - June 3rd 
to 5th - Washington, D.C. - conference will bring together the 
world's leading social marketing authorities from practice to acade-
mia to share ideas, theories, methods, and findings. 
Contact Sue Stine 
mailto:sstine@aed.org
http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2001/32-event.html


6. Ethical Issues in International Health Research - June 11th to 
15th - Harvard University, USA - As more research is conducted in de-
veloping countries, ethical issues that reflect differences in cul-
tures, politics, wealth, standards of care, individual and group 
rights, and priorities are surfacing with increasing frequency. The 
present ethical codes are not always sufficient for the broad new set 
of problems faced by funders of international health research, mem-
bers of Ethical Review Boards, government agencies, and researchers 
themselves.
Contact mailto:contedu@hsph.harvard.edu
http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2001/87-event.html


7. AVANCA 2001 - International Meeting of Cinema, TV, Video & Multi-
media - July 25th to 29th - Portugal - "Cinema and television, video 
and multimedia, all in one festival in the middle of the Portuguese 
summer. Full of images, sounds and surprises, this Festival makes 
students and professionals meet and learn about audiovisuals and mul-
timedia." Portuguese & English
Contact mailto:festival@avanca.com
http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2001/113-event.html


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8. 3rd Eastern Cape Health Research Conference - August 17th & 18th - 
East London, South Africa - The conference theme is: "Confronting 
health issues through interdisciplinary research"
Contact Mrs Grace Amoah 
mailto:gamoah@ufh.ac.za
http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2001/116-event.html


9. 3rd Conference on Global Strategies for Prevention of HIV Trans-
mission from Mothers to Infants - September 9th to 13th - Kampala, 
Uganda - "Transmission of HIV from mothers to infants can be pre-
vented, sparing millions of lives over the next decade. While the use 
of antiretroviral drugs has reduced the number of newly infected in-
fants to a few hundred per year in developed countries, each day, 
over 1,600 infants are infected in the developing world."
Contact Simon Seguin 
mailto:globals@total.net
http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2001/28-event.html


10. Work, Employment & Society Conference - September 11th to 13th - 
Nottingham, United Kingdom - On the subject of "Winning and Losing", 
conference themes will include: Inequalities of wealth and power; 
Emotional labour; The historical meanings of work; and others.
Contact Linda Poxon 
mailto:linda.poxon@nottingham.ac.uk 
http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2001/54-event.html


11. International Radiocracy Conference - September 20th to 24th - 
Durban, South Africa - Theme: Predicting Pathways and Pulling To-
gether - "Radiocracy represents a genuine attempt to encourage and 
promote the study of radio that is primarily driven by the principles 
of democracy and development."
Contact Robin Sewlal 
mailto:radiocracy@wpo.mlsultan.ac.za
http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2001/30-event.html


12. Workshop on Management of AIDS in Nigeria (2001/09/20 to 
2001/09/22) - Lagos, Nigeria - Theme: "Strategies for Success in the 
Management of HIV Condition".
Contact Kingsley Ihegworo 
mailto:emergefnm@yahoo.com
http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2001/108-event.html


13. Mozambique Computing & Telecommunications Forum - September 27th 
to 29th - Maputo, Mozambique - Mozambique is currently developing a 
comprehensive national information technology and communications 
strategy. AITEC has been invited to hold a major national IT event in 
September which will be used as a platform to launch the policy.
Contact Zelda Axsel 
mailto:zelda@aitecafrica.com 
or 
Denise Garwood 
mailto:Denise@aitecafrica.com
http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2001/101-event.html


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14. 10th International Conference of People Living with HIV/AIDS - 
October 27th to 31st - Port-of-Spain, Trinidad - Theme "Celebrating 
our Lives" - Conference aims to raise awareness of the needs and 
rights of PLWHA; inspire PLWHA to become active by enabling them to 
acquire the skills and confidence to become involved; support and 
strengthen development and capacity of PLWHA networks and organisa-
tions; and, enhance collaboration and learning to unite the infected 
and affected communities, government and business in a multi-sectoral 
approach to the epidemic. 
http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2001/91-event.html
Contact gnp@xs4all.nl


15. Sustainable Services & Systems: Transition Towards Sustainability 
- October 29 & 30 2001 - De Rode Hoed, Amsterdam, Netherlands - busi-
ness practice and academic thinking in relation to Sustainable Ser-
vices & Systems methodologies, strategies and management approaches, 
including a range of case studies. 
http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2001/59-event.html
Contact The Centre for Sustainable Design cfsd@surrart.ac.uk


16. 7th World Wilderness Congress - November 2nd to 8th - Port Eliza-
beth, Eastern Cape, South Africa - Theme: Wilderness and Human Commu-
nities: The Spirit of the 21st Century. The action agenda is based on 
the growing, and imperiled, importance of wildlands in a healthy, 
prosperous and secure human society.
http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2001/61-event.html
Contact info@worldwilderness.org


17. 8th Cross Cultural Research Conference - December 12th to 15th - 
Oahu, Hawaii, USA - Sponsored by: the Association for Consumer Re-
search, the American Psychological Association - Call for Papers: 
Electronic submissions are due not later than August 1 2001. Both em-
pirical and theoretical papers on Cross-Cultural Consumer and Busi-
ness Studies are invited. Preferences will be given to inter-country 
comparisons over intra-country studies.
http://www.comminit.com/events_cal/2001/21-event.html
Contact Terrence Witkowski witko@csulb.edu


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