The Drum Beat 89 - Upcoming Events

This Drum Beat features a range of upcoming Events that provide opportunities 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.

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 organising. 
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 planetafrica@asso.globenet.org

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 conditions of African society. Contact Ivan Semakuka icslwanga@yahoo.com

3. Building Bridges with Traditional Knowledge Conference - May 28th to June 3rd - Honolulu, Hawaii - the conference is designed to explore approaches to economic development within a framework of environmental and cultural conservation. Contact bbt2@hawaii.edu

4. Healthy Women Healthy World, Challenges for the Future Conference - May 29th to June 1st - Washington D.C., USA - conference theme focuses on women, and the interplay of women's health with the health of families and communities. Contact conference@globalhealth.org

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 froom practice to academia to share ideas, theories, methods, and findings. Contact Sue Stine sstine@aed.org

6. Ethical Issues in International Health Research - June 11th to 15th - Harvard University, USA - As more research is conducted in developing countries, ethical issues that reflect differences in cultures, 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, members of Ethical Review Boards, government agencies, and researchers themselves. Contact contedu@hsph.harvard.edu

7. AVANCA 2001 - International Meeting of Cinema, TV, Video & Multimedia - 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 multimedia." Portuguese & English. Contact festival@avanca.com

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 gamoah@ufh.ac.za

9. 3rd Conference on Global Strategies for Prevention of HIV Transmission from Mothers to Infants - September 9th to 13th - Kampala, Uganda - "Transmission of HIV from mothers to infants can be prevented, sparing millions of lives over the next decade. While the use of antiretroviral drugs has reduced the number of newly infected infants to a few hundred per year in developed countries, each day, over 1,600 infants are infected in the developing world." Contact Simon Séguin globals@total.net

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 linda.poxon@nottingham.ac.uk

11. International Radiocracy Conference - September 20th to 24th - Durban, South Africa - Theme: Predicting Pathways and Pulling Together - "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 radiocracy@wpo.mlsultan.ac.za

12. Workshop on Management of AIDS in Nigeria - September 20th to 22nd - Lagos, Nigeria - Theme: "Strategies for Success in the Management of HIV Condition". Contact Kingsley Ihegworo emergefnm@yahoo.com

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 zelda@aitecafrica.com or Denise Garwood Denise@aitecafrica.com

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 organisations; and, enhance collaboration and learning to unite the infected and affected communities, government and business in a multi-sectoral approach to the epidemic. Contact gnp@xs4all.nl

15. Sustainable Services & Systems: Transition Towards Sustainability - October 29 & 30 2001 - De Rode Hoed, Amsterdam, Netherlands - business practice and academic thinking in relation to Sustainable Services & Systems methodologies, strategies and management approaches, including a range of case studies. Contact The Centre for Sustainable Design cfsd@surrart.ac.uk

16. 7th World Wilderness Congress - November 2nd to 8th - Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa - Theme: Wilderness and Human Communities: 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. Contact info@worldwilderness.org

17. 8th Cross Cultural Research Conference - December 12th to 15th - Oahu, Hawaii, USA - Sponsored by: the Association for Consumer Research, the American Psychological Association - Call for Papers: Electronic submissions are due not later than August 1 2001. Both empirical and theoretical papers on Cross-Cultural Consumer and Business Studies are invited. Preferences will be given to inter-country comparisons over intra-country studies. Contact Terrence Witkowski witko@csulb.edu

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