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Sunday, 1 March 2015

open access: Research on Women’s Health in Africa: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities

Health Care for Women International
www.tandfonline.com/UHCW

Official Journal of the International Council on Women's Health Issues
www.icowhi.com

SPECIAL TRIPLE ISSUE
FREE ACCESS UNTIL APRIL 2015
Research on Women’s Health in Africa:
Issues, Challenges and Opportunities
Volume 35 (7-9) 2014

Guest Editors: Chimaraoke O. Izugbara, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, at the African Population and Health Research Center in Nairobi, Kenya, and Eleanor Krassen Covan, HCWI Editor-in-Chief

FEATURING 23 PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES -- The original papers included in this Special Triple Issue from Health Care for Women International offer insights to strengthen our understanding of the dynamics and drivers of health and wellbeing among women in Africa.

Free Access to the Special Issue until April 2015.

SELECTED CONTENTS

Editorial: Research on Women's Health in Africa: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities, Chimaraoke O. Izugbara & Eleanor Krassen Covan

Women's Health in Women's Hands: A Pilot Study Assessing the Feasibility of Providing Women With Medications to Reduce Postpartum Hemorrhage and Sepsis in Rural Tanzania, Gail C. Webber & Bwire Chirangi

Rethinking How to Promote Maternity Care-Seeking: Factors Associated With Institutional Delivery in Guinea, Ellen Brazier, Renée Fiorentino, Saidou Barry, Yaya Kasse & Sita Millimono

Gender Differences in the Experiences of HIV/AIDS-Related Stigma: A Qualitative Study in Ghana, Gladys B. Asiedu & Karen S. Myers-Bowman

Effects of a Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Program in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Myra Taylor, Champak Jinabhai, Siyabonga Dlamini, Reshma Sathiparsad, Matthijs S. Eggers & Hein De Vries

“Abortion—It Is My Own Body”: Women's Narratives About Influences on Their Abortion Decisions in Ghana, Georgina Yaa Oduro & Mercy Nana Akua Otsin

Food Beliefs and Practices During Pregnancy in Ghana: Implications for Maternal Health Interventions, Ama de-Graft Aikins

Cervical Cancer in Developing Countries: Effective Screening and Preventive Strategies With an Application in Rwanda, Immaculee Mukakalisa, Ruth Bindler, Carol Allen & Joann Dotson

FREE ACCESS THROUGH APRIL 30, 2015

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Monday, 10 October 2011

African Humanities Fellowships - Nov 1 deadline !

African Humanities Program -

American Council of Learned Societies

LINK HERE

November 1, 2011 Deadline !!

Fellowship Details

Applicants must be nationals and residents of a country in sub-Saharan Africa, with a current affiliation at an institution in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda.
Funding is available for dissertation completion and for postdoctoral research and writing.
Applicants for Dissertation-Completion Fellowships should be in the final year of writing the dissertation at a university in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, or Uganda. Dissertation-Completion Fellowships are not available in South Africa.
Applicants for Early Career Postdoctoral Fellowships must be working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda and must have completed the Ph.D. no more than five years ago.
Projects must be in the humanities and must be carried out in sub-Saharan Africa. AHP fellowships may not be used for travel outside the continent.
Completed applications must be submitted by November 1, 2011. ACLS encourages the submission of applications by email toahp@acls.org; alternatively, applications may be mailed to the AHP/ACLS offices in New York.
Applicants will be notified of competition results in the spring of 2012.

For further details on eligibility, submission of applications, and selection criteria, see 2011-12 Competition Announcement (PDF) as well as Instructions and Application materials (at right).

The African Humanities Program (AHP) seeks to revitalize the humanities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda through fellowship competitions and meetings associated with them. The AHP is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Fellowship awards to promising African scholars are the centerpiece of the African Humanities Program. Approximately 40 such fellowships will be awarded annually. An initiative to publish the best manuscripts produced under the terms of AHP fellowships is now being established. All fellows will be encouraged to submit their completed manuscripts to the African Humanities Series, which will be a cooperative venture between AHP and a major African university press.

The AHP organizes meetings in Africa in cooperation with host institutions to publicize the fellowship program and to discuss new trends in humanities research. In the past three years of the program, meetings were held at universities in Ghana (University of Ghana-Legon), in Nigeria (University of Ibadan, Bayero University Kano, and Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria), in South Africa (University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Johannesburg in Johannesburg, the East London campus of Ft. Hare University, the University of the Western Cape and University of Cape Town in Cape Town), in Tanzania (the University of Dar es Salaam), and in Uganda (Makerere University in Kampala). At the meetings senior African scholars from a variety of disciplines advise on the fine-tuning of the fellowship programs and lead workshops in application preparation. Younger scholars learn about the AHP fellowship program, gain practical advice on the application process, and have the opportunity to discuss new directions in the humanities and standards of quality in humanities research. Through the activities of the African Humanities Program, ACLS promotes local and international cooperation among humanities scholars at all stages of career, with the aim of developing a self-sustaining. continent-wide network of African humanities scholars.

The African Humanities Program is inspired by a commitment to the humanities as a core component of higher education and research in Africa, essential to progress and development. The ACLS defines the humanities as the study of human cultures, languages, and histories through the use of qualitative approaches. Among the disciplines contributing to humanities scholarship are anthropology, archaeology, history, studies of the fine and performing arts, musicology, languages and linguistics, literature studies, religious studies, and philosophy.

Friday, 9 September 2011

Religious response to HIV/AIDS - Special journal issue

Global Public Health, Vol. 6, No. sup2, 01 Oct 2011 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
This new issue contains the following articles:

Sunday, 20 March 2011

Melvin and his sister: A gay Kenyan's struggle to survive - vide

Sometimes pictures and videos do say more than a thousands of words

Melvin and his sister: A gay Kenyan's struggle to survive - video

Health and global social justice

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