SWAA - VIIth Annual Conference
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Source: Gender-aids <gender-aids@bizet.inet.co.th>
14-17 December 1998
Dakar, Senegal
The Society for African Women and AIDS (SWAA) has teamed up with
GENDER-AIDS and the 'Fondation du Present' in the build-up to their
VIIth Annual Conference to be held in Dakar, Senegal from 14-17 Decem-
ber 1998.
The main theme for the conference is: "Expanding the HIV/AIDS Response
to Enhance Men's Participation". Over the next few weeks the forum is
supporting the conference by focusing discussions on men's involvement
and participation in the response to HIV/AIDS. The aims of the SWAA
conference initiative are to:
- Increase awareness of SWAA, the conference and some of the main is-
sues likely to be addressed at the conference;
- Enable the 900 GENDER-AIDS members to participate virtually in the
conference and to share experiences before, during and after the con-
ference;
- Encourage input from national and regional networks and organisations
who cannot attend the conference.
Some of the conference sub-themes are familiar to forum members and in-
clude:
1. Vulnerability to infection men, women and youth;
2. Men in the response to HIV infection;
3. Obstacles to men s participation;
4. Strategies for community-based communication;
5. Vertical transmission;
6. Risk factors;
7. Factors of behaviour change;
8. Condom issues;
9. Accessibility to anti-retroviral therapeutics;
10. Socialisation of youths;
11. Ethical, legal and psychosocial responses;
12. Responses for a greater participation of men and young people;
13. PHIV testimonies;
14. PHIV sexuality;
Between now and the conference articles, publications and presentations
on the issue of male involvement and participation will be made avail-
able, as well as information about the conference and SWAA itself. Af-
rican key correspondents, selected by SWAA will share their views of
male participation from several country-specific points of view. During
the conference daily bulletins will be posted and the rapporteur's sum-
mary will be made available soon after.
To support this initiative and the conference you are invited to par-
ticipate in discussions by sharing with us:
- general information and experiences from individuals, organisations,
countries or sub-regions (including electronic resources);
- examples of successful and unsuccessful approaches in the area of
male involvement or on any of the 14 sub-themes;
- information about existing abstracts and presentations in these areas
- bibliographic listings of relevant papers/database searches;
- any issues you would like to see addressed at the conference itself.
Please send all contributions, comments or questions about this initia-
tive, to GENDER-AIDS at <gender-aids@hivnet.ch>
With best regards
SWAA Senegal
mailto:swaa@telecomplus.sn
Moderator, GENDER-AIDS
mailto:gender-aids@hivnet.ch
Fondation du Present
mailto:aids98.community@hivnet.ch
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