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Collaborating Centre  Latest Publications  Multi-media | Quick LinksLatest HeadlinesSenior Programme Officer Post: Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation seeks to appoint a Senior Programme Officer under their Global Policy and Advocacy Programme. The Senior Programme Officer’s main role will be to lead the programme’s work in 4-6 high priority countries. In the 2-3 highest priority countries, this will include developing a Foundation country plan with a virtual team of Programme Officers with significant active grants in those countries. This position requires international travel. Click here to apply.  The Non-financial Influences of Health-workers Employer Choices HEARD researchers have had a paper published in the Human Resources for Health Journal on Understanding the factors influencing health-worker employment decisions in South Africa. The paper aims to fill the literature gaps that exist in the under-researched area of the non-financial factors that influence health workers choice of employer (public, private or non-governmental organisation) or their choice of work location (urban, rural or overseas). Click here for more information.  Senior Public Finance Economist Post: University of OxfordThe Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, is seeking to appoint a full-time Senior Lead Researcher in the economics of the public finance impact of HIV, for three years in the first instance. This post will be funded by the Rush Foundation. The successful applicant will be expected to lead and help to build a network of collaborative research into economic aspects of HIV, to which other institutions, such as the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Modelling Consortium based at Imperial College London will also contribute. Click here for more information and application process.  University of Free State Researchers Visit HEARDHEARD recently hosted Professor Frederik Booysen and Michelle Pappin from the University of the Free State (UFS). Prof Booysen delivered a lunchtime presentation titled A short roadtrip on the highways and byways of behavioural and experimental economics on experimental and behavioural economics followed by a practical ‘how to’ tutorial on eliciting information on risk, time and social preferences. Michelle Pappin, a postdoctoral fellow at UFS presented on Mental health challenges in a public sector anti-retroviral treatment programme.
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 Live Feeds Dissolvable female condoms to protect against pregnancy and HIVScientists have developed a female condom which they claim can protect against pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV by dissolving inside the body and releasing specific chemicals.
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Retrieved: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 Revellers Receive Female CondomsRevellers in various night clubs in Bulawayo were at the weekend issued with free condoms by the city’s commercial sex workers. Each lucky patron received an orange envelope full of male and female condoms.
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Retrieved: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 Case in Point: Marketing the female condomHow do you create a market for a life-saving consumer product when the population with the highest demand for it cannot afford it?
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Retrieved: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 Press statement by Michelle Bachelet at the 2013 African Union SummitPress Statement by Michelle Bachelet United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 26 January 2013. United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Retrieved: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 Malian women make their voices heard: emergency aid, participation in the peace process, and justice for all“Our women have been beaten, raped, whipped, forced into polygamous marriages, and who knows what else. They have lost their dignity, but what is man’s dignity without that of women?” These are the words of Sophie*, a displaced woman living in Bamako, the country’s capital, but originally from Timbuktu in... United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Retrieved: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 UN Women adopts Paper-Smart initiative for its Executive Board sessionsIn response to the Secretary-General's call to move towards a paperless UN system and reduce the organisation's costs and carbon footprint, UN Women went Paper-Smart at its Executive Board session from 28-30 November, 2012 – and the initiative is now being replicated during the First Regular Session of the UN... United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Retrieved: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 “Ride on! Speak Out!”: Nine countries, 15 bikers, one issue – ending violence against womenA group of motorcycle buffs joined forces with Harley-Davidson Johannesburg and UN Women in a novel initiative to raise awareness about violence against women and girls. Over 16 days, they rode 8,200 km, across Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho. United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Retrieved: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 Economies rebound faster from crisis when responses focus on women’s needsThe need for gender-sensitive economic policies is the focus of two UN Women research papers being launched at a two-day workshop being held in New York from 21-22 January. Renowned feminist academics and policy experts will share critical perspectives on financial and economic crisis recovery. United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Retrieved: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 Enshrining Human Rights, Justice and Security in the Post-2015 Development GoalsSpeech given by John Hendra Assistant Secretary General, And Deputy Executive Director, Policy and Programme of UN Women at Wilton Park Symposium on Integrating Transitional Justice, Security and Development. 17 January 2013. United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
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