Women are falling through the cracks in the global fight against HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis, according to three leading international advocates speaking at the UN conference in Melbourne today. Anti poverty advocacy organisation Results is hosting the groundbreaking workshop on the issue of women and TB which is seeking to highlight the fact that women are [...]
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Unsealing Papua New Guinea’s fate: creative church approaches to HIV prevention.
Caritas examines the socio-cultural contributors to PNGs greatest development threat. On Tuesday August 31, Caritas Australia’s and our Catholic Church partners from Papua New Guinea will present the workshop Changing community attitudes and behaviours: Church health initiatives in PNG at the 63rd annual UNDPI/NGO conference – Advance Global Health.
World Vision: health-related aid spending in the region requires ‘dramatic overhaul’ if more lives are to be saved
On the eve of a Melbourne meeting between the UN and hundreds of charities to discuss the state of global health, World Vision CEO Tim Costello has warned that children in the Pacific region are dying at rates not seen in Australia ‘since before Federation’. Mr Costello said if the Millennium Development Goals for child [...]
Ancient rite has contemporary message for Africa
A successful AIDS reduction program in Africa is exposed at UN Conference in Melbourne. The Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel is among the first international medical institutions to lend support in training of local circumcision teams in Africa to fight the continental pandemic of AIDS. “SHESHA” – a new, innovative program, deploying international doctors [...]
United Nations invites Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation to ‘Advance Global Health’
Australia will host a major annual United Nations Conference on global health issues. The 63rd UN Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organisation Conference will be held in Melbourne from 30 August to 1 September 2010. This is the first time Australia has hosted a UN event of this size and only the third time this Conference [...]
Lowy institute to host UN aids chief in Sydney, Friday 27 August
Head of UNAIDS Michel Sidibé will make a major speech as a guest of the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He will then visit the Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in Kings Cross and St Vincent’s Hospital this Friday. Mr Sidibé heads the global fight against HIV as the Executive Director of the United Nations institution [...]
Victorian Biotech Achievements in Global Health
Victorian biotechnology has been invaluable in the struggle for global health. This is a list of some of Victoria’s notable achievements in the science of preventable diseases.
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