This section highlights events, vacancies, announcements related  to children and HIV.

Don't turn a blind eye! OVC in Africa  Conference

The OVC Africa Conference is providing a platform for discussion to assist orphans and vulnerable children with the increasing challenges they face. The Conference provides the opportunity to evaluate where we are in terms of assisting orphans and vulnerable children, making plans to increase our support to them and finally emphasising the need the act now!
 

The conference will take place at Sandton Conference Centre , Johannesburg ,31st October -3rd November. Click here for registration

FREE publications from the Alliance:

On this site you will find a number of resources produced by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance on Children and HIV.

• Building blocks: Africa wide briefing notes.- Eng/ Fr/Por
• Building blocks in practice.- Eng/ Fr/Por
• Young children and HIV.- Eng/ Fr/Por
• A parrot on your shoulder.- Eng/ Hindi/Tamil
• Understanding and challenging HIV stigma – a toolkit for action.- Eng/ Fr

There are also adaptations of the briefing notes in Khmer and Indian and African languages. If you would like to order hard copies at no cost please go to the publications section at www.aidsalliance.org

The International  Forum  for  Child  Welfare  (IFCW)  will host the21st World Forum  from  November  8th  - November 11th, at the IBM Learning Center  in  Palisades,  New  York,  USA. The forum will challenge the global  child  welfare  community  to  think  about  its  work toward achieving  the  “Millennium  Development  Goals” and “A World Fit for Children” in the context of the global trends that have already begun to  fundamentally  alter  the  child  welfare  landscape  and  change operating  assumptions.  
 

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), is accepting applications for fiscal year 2010 Capacity Building for Substance Abuse and HIV Prevention Services for At-Risk  Racial/Ethnic Minority Young Adults grants. The purpose of the grant is to provide substance abuse and HIV prevention services to at-risk minority populations in communities disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS. Please visit here for further details.

The 4th  Annual INTEREST Workshop -International Workshop on HIV Treatment, Pathogenesis and Prevention Research in Resource-Limited Settings will be in held Maputo, Mozamique from 25 - 28 May 2010. Among other things, the workshop will focus on Pediatric HIV and Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV.

The conference being held in New Delhi, India from 27th-30th May 2010 among other things will highlight issues on Parent to Child Transmission. Please click here for further details.

The 4th CHIVA Annual conference with the theme 'Pediatric HIV: Back to basics' is being held in Brighton, UK on  28 May 2010. For further details please visit the website.