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Organizations RSS FeedsWHO to issue guidance on hormonal contraceptives and HIV - 3 February 2012 -- Current WHO guidelines call on health service providers to remind patients, that neither hormonal contraceptives nor intrauterine devices known as IUDs offer protection against HIV or other sexually transmitted infections. Protection against both unwanted pregnancy and STIs including HIV is called "dual protection" and condoms are the mainstay of dual protection. ...Feed Source: www.who.int Dr Margaret Chan nominated for a second term to be WHO Director-General - 18 January 2012 -- Dr Margaret Chan was nominated today by the WHOs Executive Board for a second term as Director-General of the Organization. If confirmed by the World Health Assembly, Dr Chan's new term will begin on 1 July 2012 and continue until 30 June 2017.... Executive Board appoints the Regional Director for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region - 17 January 2012 -- Dr Ala Alwan will take up his appointment as the Regional Director of WHO's Eastern Mediterranean Region (WHO/EMRO) for a five-year term starting on 1 February 2012.... India records one year without polio cases - 12 January 2012 -- India appears to have completed one year without polio since its last case on 13 January 2011. This is a momentous achievement because India was once recognized as the world?s epicentre of polio. However, there remains no room for complacency. India must maintain surveillance and high childhood immunity against wild poliovirus until eradication is achieved globally.... WHO recognizes progress of Gulf States for adopting regional strategy to address noncommunicable diseases - 6 January 2012 -- Six Gulf States detail how they plan to tackle noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) during the coming years. The regional strategy by Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates lays out details on setting targets and measuring results, advancing multisectoral action, and strengthening national capacity to combat NCDs.... WHO concerned that new H5N1 influenza research could undermine the 2011 Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework - 30 December 2011 -- WHO takes note that studies undertaken by several institutions on whether changes in the H5N1 influenza virus can make it more transmissible between humans have raised concern about the possible risks and misuses associated with this research. WHO is also deeply concerned about the potential negative consequences. However, WHO also notes that studies conducted under appropriate conditions must continue to take place so that critical scientific knowledge needed to reduce the risks posed by the H5N1 virus continues to increase. ... Three-year study identifies key interventions to reduce maternal, newborn and child deaths - 15 December 2011 -- About 358 000 women still die each year during pregnancy and childbirth; 7.6 million children die before the age of 5 annually. A new global consensus has agreed on the key evidence-based interventions that will sharply reduce these numbers. The study, Essential interventions, commodities and guidelines for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health, is designed to facilitate decision-making in low- and middle-income countries about how to allocate limited resources for maximum impact on the health of women and children.... Malaria deaths are down but progress remains fragile - 13 December 2011 -- Malaria mortality rates have fallen by more than 25% globally since 2000 according to the World malaria report 2011, issued today. This is the result of a significant scaling-up of malaria prevention and control measures in the last decade, including the widespread use of bed nets, better diagnostics and a wider availability of effective medicines to treat malaria.... Unparalleled global progress in HIV response but sustained investment vital - 30 November 2011 -- The Report on the global HIV/AIDS response shows that increased access to HIV services resulted in a 15% reduction of new infections over the past decade and a 22% decline in AIDS-related deaths in the last five years. While there is still much to be done, 2011 was a game changing year, in terms of current progress and innovations creating hope for substantial future advances.... Election of the WHO Director-General - 21 November 2011 -- Only one candidate has been proposed for the election of WHO Director-General. The candidate is Dr Margaret Chan, the current Director-General, whose name has been submitted by China. ... Transculturation and Aesthetics - international conference - To mark the close of the three-year Nordforsk funded project on Literary Transculturation an international conference op ... EIGHTH BLACK DIASPORA CONFERENCE (Formerly the Black Atlantic Conference): BLACK INTELLECTUALS OF THE DIASPORA
- The Black Diaspora Conference is an annual interdisciplinary forum bringing together scholars and thinkers to reflect on ... CFP: George Perkins Marsh: An American for all Seasons - CALL FOR PAPERS
George Perkins Marsh: An American for All Seasons<br>
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The College of A ... Access, Competition and For-Profit Higher Education Conference - Please see the CFP for an AERA conference entitled "Access, Competition, and For-Profit Higher Education on September 21 ... InPACT 2012 - International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends - CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2012
24 to 26 May 2012 Lisbon, Po ... Papers, Essays and Reviews (PEAR) - Yonsei University - Call for Papers - Papers, Essays and Reviews
Yonsei Graduate Journal of International Studies<br>
Request for Submissions for the ... A Special Relationship of Hate? 50 years of the Anglo-American Far-Right - A Special Relationship of Hate? 50 years of the Anglo-American Far-Right
An International Conference convening at Par ... New Volume of Ars Orientalis - Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the publication of Volume 41 of Ars Orientalis. The volume begins with forme ... Call for Panel Chair and Moderator for 2013 OAH - I am seeking a chair and moderator to complete a panel for the 2013 OAH Conference in San Francisco. The panel explores ... Citizenship-in-Question: Evidentiary Challenges for Jus Soli and Autochthony, from Authenticité to Birtherism - Citizenship-in-Question: Evidentiary Challenges for Jus Soli and Autochthony, from Authenticité to Birtherism
Thursd ... A Conference on Legal History and Roman Law in Memory of Alan Rodger - Friends and colleagues of Alan Rodger will meet in his memory at the University of Glasgow, on 7-8 September 2012, for ... Symposium: Gender, Sex, Pollution in Buddhist Discourse - GENDER, SEX, AND POLLUTION IN BUDDHIST DISCOURSE
CJRC Gender and Ideology in Japanese Religious Life Project
<p> ... Erskine Peters Conference - The Erskine Peters Conference invites scholars and others engaged in African American life to join with Notre Dame stude ... Call for Papers Conference "Languages and Cultures of Conflicts and Atrocities" - Call for Papers for the interdisciplinary and international conference
"Languages and Cultures of Conflicts and Atro ... Captivity Writing Unbound - Call for Papers: Captivity Writing Unbound

University of South Alabama (Mobile/Fairhope, AL)<br>
Oc ... "Rivalry and Rhetoric in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Black Legends and Domestic Dissent" - "Rivalry and Rhetoric in the Early Modern Mediterranean:
Black Legends and Domestic Dissent" <br>
(a core prog ... II International Scientific-Practical Conference «Medicine Pressing Questions» - Dear colleagues ,
Public organization «young doctors of Azerbaijan» with partnership of Russian Union of Young Scie ... New Sources for the Study of Slave Societies: A Conference to Launch Vanderbilt University's New Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies Digital Archive - Vanderbilt University is pleased to announce a conference to launch its Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Soc ... 14th Annual Strategic Studies Graduate Conference - The annual conference is multidisciplinary and aims to stimulate discussions on a range of issues, both domestic and int ... Columbia Maison Francaise: Monsieur Deficit, or How the French Invented Financial Politics, 1780-1840 with Jacob Soll - Date: February 8, 2012
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