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| Update | | 17 July, 2006 |
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 |  | "Each year Hospice Africa Uganda has a "Palliative Care Week" to promote palliative care and remind everyone that that they have a human right to have access to treatment for severe pain" | | | | | | |
Journalist, Bamuturaki Musinguzi, sent in his article on Palliative Care in Uganda - links to the full article on the Health and Media website below. |
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| From Cameroon, Nsai Aristos, sent in an article on a debate surrounding the ridgid laws on abortion in Cameroon. |
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| -- and, can anyone assist our new listserv member, Mariah Carroll? As part of her studies she would like to develop a photojournalism piece relating to HIV/AIDS in Africa. I think she is looking to work over here with a health NGO for a couple of weeks as part of her research. any ideas? ...just send me an email and I will pass it along. |
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| Along with Mariah, who is finishing up her masters degree (studying health journalism) at the University of Minnesota, we have two more new listserv members including: |
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| Jean-Marc Jacobs, who works with Médecins Sans Frontières in Brussells, and Tania Shillam, a radio broadcaster and producer working at a multi-cultural London radio and website station called "Colourful Radio" |
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| This update took "forever" to compile! - plenty of resources and opportunities to consider. Have a quick scroll down and see for yourself - and, dont forget to send me your feedback. |
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| take care, |
| Colin Lloyd, South Africa |
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| 1. Contributions |
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| >> MEMBER EMAILS |
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| + Debate on abortion issues for Cameroonians |
| Nsai Aristos, print journalist, Yaounde, Cameroon |
| Debates were heated on both sides of the Abortion issue at the at the CENTRE PASTEUR, in Yaoundé as University dons, medical doctors, jurist, representatives from The Cameroon Association of Bioethics, and a wide range Cameroonians gathered for discussion and argument... |
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| + Access to pain treatment highlighted |
| Bamuturaki Musinguzi, journalist, Uganda |
| For a price of two or three loafs of bread cancer and HIV/Aids patients in Africa can now afford cheap pain killers for a week after the continent obtained affordable oral morphine in 1990, which can be used in a home and controlled by the sick. |
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| >> ASSISTANCE NEEDED |
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| + Want to find HIV/Aids fieldwork in Africa |
| Mariah Carroll, graduate student, USA |
I am a graduate student at the University of Minnesota and I am studying health journalism.
For my final project I would like to develop a photojournalism piece based on international field experience. I was doing research on your web site and I wanted to know if you have any suggestions for finding short term field work in Africa relating to HIV/AIDS. I know it will be difficult to capture the story with photos so I'm open to other public health issues that exist in Africa.
Can you offer me any suggestions/opportunities to help get me started on my final project? |
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| + Update on Sickle Cell Fund |
| Lucky Lukiah Mulumba, Registered Nurse, Texas, USA |
Hello every one!
Despite of the sickness at our home, and the sudden death of my mother in law; I have managed to attend the three day conference. The first day was the hardest since I was up late comforting my husband.
Each of the 250 conference participants received our "Uganda-American Sickle Cell Rescue Fund" information brochures.
The pastor and other participants were very moved by my presentation! ( I wish you could have heard me: my voice was escalating to the roof as I spoke about the assistance needed for suffers in Uganda).
Total in donations so far: $US 1,500 |
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| 2. Health News |
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| + Mali: New Centre to Tackle Bird Flu Across Africa |
The World Organisation for Animal Health, or OIE, has set up its first regional control centre in Africa with the aim of coordinating measures against bird flu, which is threatening livelihoods and health across the continent.
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| more: www.globalhealth.org/news/article/7624 |
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| + African Singer Encourages Global Commitments to Malaria, AIDS and TB |
| South African singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka urged world leaders Saturday to wage war against malaria as she paid emotional tribute to a band member who died two years ago of the disease, which kills more than a million people every year. |
| more: www.globalhealth.org/news/article/7621 |
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| + Keep treatment programme simple say experts |
| As the Malawian government takes stock of its anti-AIDS treatment programme, health officials have been faced with the question: how does a poor country with a serious epidemic and an over-burdened health system provide indefinite care for up to 200,000 people living with HIV? |
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| + Latest Health Headlines: Health + Media website |
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| 3. Opportunities |
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| + HIV/AIDS prevention/awareness radio awards |
UNICEF and OneWorld Radio are hosting a contest for radio features and public service announcements to raise HIV/AIDS awareness and highlight young people's participation in the media.
The theme for the 2006 contest is "UNITE FOR CHILDREN. UNITE AGAINST AIDS". Entries should be about HIV and AIDS – prevention, education, the scope of the pandemic and youth action to address it.
Winners will be awarded radio equipment, and all finalists will be recognized with a commemorative plaque. |
| more: www.unicef.org/media/media_33705.html |
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| + TV Workshops on Reporting HIV/AIDS |
Aug 30 - Sep 1 2006 and Sep 4-6 2006 - India
The Thomson Foundation invites applications from Indian television journalists and programme makers for workshops on Reporting HIV/AIDS. The workshops will be conducted by international trainers using a multidisciplinary approach to add new dimensions to the participants’ reporting of HIV/AIDS. |
| more details: Communication Initiative website |
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| 4. Resources |
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| + Health & Development Networks (HDN) |
| This is an organisation that works to improve communication, expand discourses, and promote self-representation in the HIV/AIDS and related health fields internationally. |
| http://www.healthdev.org |
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| + Free access to a Research News site from Asia |
| ResearchSEA, a new Free resource for the latest research news from Asia - connecting journalists and the public with key experts and the latest news from the most respected research institutions in Asia. |
| www.researchsea.com |
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| + Teaching Resources for Avian Influenza |
| The Academy for Educational Development (AED) has developed an illustrated children's storybook and other educational materials for schools in Africa to use to raise awareness among African children about avian influenza and involve them in educating their communities. |
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| + WHO Publishes Statistics on 50 Health Indicators |
| The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently published "World Health Statistics 2006," which presents the most recent statistics since 1997 of 50 health indicators for WHO's 192 Member States. This second edition of World Health Statistics includes an expanded set of statistics, with a particular focus on equity between and within countries. It also introduces a section with 10 highlights in global health statistics for the past year. |
| » Download the document and tables |
| » View the ten global health highlights |
| » Query the database online |
| » Review the indicator definitions and metadata |
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| >> HEALTH-MEDIA PROJECT REVIEWS |
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| Trusted Partner Campaign - East and Southern Africa |
| Population Services International (PSI) launched this regional HIV prevention campaign in 11 East and Southern Africa countries. This mass media behaviour change communication campaign addresses young partners in love relationships and is intended to encourage them to engage in safe sex. The campaign uses television and radio and these are complemented by posters, billboards, flyers and discussion guides designed for use in interpersonal communication activities. |
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| Health + Development Communications: Malawi |
| This is a Health and Development Communications project that Population Services International Malawi (PSI) is undertaking in collaboration with the Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication, a South African NGO that specialises in health and development communication campaigns that aim to change people's behaviours. The project developed communications materials using three media - radio, television and print, based on Soul City's methodology of edutainment with a multimedia communications approach. The prime messages are on HIV/AIDS and other related health issues. |
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| 5. Links |
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African Palliative Care Association
www.apca.co.ug
Elton John AIDS Foundation
www.ejaf.org
Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa
www.fhssa.org
Help the Hospices
www.helpthehospices.org.uk
Hospice Information Service
www.hospiceinformation.info
International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care
www.hospicecare.com
International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, UK
www.eolc-observatory.net
Open Society Institute: Public Health Programme, Palliative Care Initiative
www.soros.org/initiatives/health/focus/ipci
Palliative Care Initiative, The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund
www.theworkcontinues.org/causes/palliative.asp
Palliative care. The solid facts (PDF)
www.euro.who.int/document/E82931.pdf
Project on Death in America
www.soros.org/initiatives/pdia
World Health Organization: national cancer control programmes - policies and managerial guidelines
www.who.int/cancer/publications/en/#guidelines |
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