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• Invitation on World AIDS Day

  Invitation to World AIDS Day Event on December 1st, 2008

  Dear friends

  Greetings from the SAATHII Calcutta office!

  We are pleased to announce that Solidarity and Action Against the HIV Infection in India (SAATHII) and Priya Entertainment, Kolkata will be organising an event in the occasion of World AIDS Day including quizzes, band performances, film screenings, and a candle light vigil.

  SAATHII is a registered Charitable Trust with its head office in Chennai, branch offices in Calcutta and Hyderabad, and field offices in Jaipur, Karur and Bhubaneswar.

  We focus on capacity building of individuals and organizations working on HIV/AIDS in India through information dissemination, networking, advocacy, research, training and other technical assistance.

  Priya Entertainments Pvt. Ltd. (PEPL) has been in the field of entertainment for almost a decade. Besides direct ownership of prestigious cinema halls like PRIYA and Annapuran Multiplex/ Mall, PEPL manages many prestigious cultural complexes like Star, Gitanjali Cultural Complex in Bholpur, and Krishti Cultural Complex and Vidyasagar Memorial Hall in Burdwan. PEPL is the only Indian Company to have tie-ups with leading Hollywood names like Sony Pictures, Columbia Tristar, Walt Disney (Buena Vista International), and Paramount Pictures.

  Indian business partners include UTV Films, Star Entertainment and Sahara One. PEPL also produces films and has been awarded the President's Gold Award as Best Producer for three years in a row.

  The event will be held in the Sandhyatara (open-air restaurant) on the terrace of the Star Theatre from 6PM – 7:30PM on Monday, December 1st, 2008.

  We hope to see you there!

  Sincerely,
  Pawan Dhall

  Country Director – Programmes and Development, and Calcutta Office Director

  SAATHII

  Phone: 033 2484 5002/ 98312 88023

  E-mail: saathii@yahoo.com

  Posted by: Editorial
  Created on Mon, 12/01/2008 - 06:57
  expires on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 07:01 (3 weeks 6 days)

• UNDP India commemorates World AIDS Day/Global Red Ribbon Awards

  Dear friends,

  On the 20th anniversary of the World AIDS Day on 1 December, UNDP is organizing hosting a special award ceremony for the Global Red Ribbon Awards and a film screening at the Stein Auditorium, Habitat World at 6:30 pm.

  Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust, Sanghamitra, and People like Us (PLUS) will be felicitated for their work with the Global Red Ribbon award by the UNDP Resident Representative Maxine Olson.

  The Red Ribbon Award is a joint award by the UNAIDS family and the International AIDS Conference to honour outstanding community initiatives that show leadership to reduce the spread and impact of HIV and AIDS.

  Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust, Sanghamitra, and People like Us (PLUS) are community based organizations that work with injecting drug users, sex workers and transgender respectively.

  Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust operates from seven permanent sites to prevent and treat HIV and other opportunistic infections affecting injecting drug users.

  A team of outreach workers and peer educators, who are former or current drug users, reaches out to the community on the streets of Mumbai.
  Sanghamitra, a women’s collective in Girgaum, Mumbai, is giving voice to the needs of sex workers.

  The organization encourages sex workers to confront issues of concern head-on so that they can confidently articulate their needs without fearing reprisal from brothel-owners or the police.

  People Like Us (PLUS), a community-based organization of transgender youth dancers, runs programmes aimed at providing care and support to transgender people, men who have sex with men, and sex workers.

  In the PLUS walk-in shelter, transgender people in need can access health care, education on the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, financial support, and counseling.

  The felicitation ceremony will be followed by the screening of 68 pages (Hindi with EST, 93 min), which is a story of five people whose lives dramatically change when they come to know of their HIV status.

  The film has been produced by the Humsafar Trust. The Director, Sridhar Rangayan, will interact with the audience after the screening of the film.

  Do come and join us at the India Habitat Centre on 1st December.

  Regards,

  Sabrina Sidhu

  Research and Communications Associate

  UNDP India

  55 Lodi Estate

  New Delhi-110003

  Phone: 011-46532270/ 9818717522

  sabrina.sidhu@undp.org/ www.undp.org.in

  Posted by: Editorial
  Created on Thu, 11/27/2008 - 07:09
  expires on Sat, 12/27/2008 - 07:11 (3 weeks 2 days)

• Global Health and Social Innovation Conference at Yale

  Many of you may be interested in this international "Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation" conference to be held at Yale University. Please forward widely.

  Register Online For 6th Annual Global Health Conference. Registration rate increases monthly.

  "Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation"
  Saturday, April 18 - Sunday, April 19, 2009
  Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

  The Unite For Sight Conference is what CNN calls "A Meeting of Minds"

  200 Speakers, Including Keynote Addresses by Dr. Susan Blumenthal, Nicholas Kristof, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Dr. Sonia Sachs, Dr. Al Sommer, and Dr. Harold Varmus. Plus social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Save The Children, Partners in Health, HealthStore Foundation, mothers2mothers, and many others.

  CME, CNE, and CPE Credits will be available for select conference sessions.

  Unite For Sight's conference convenes a committed vanguard of 2,500 people from more than 60 countries. The conference challenges students, professionals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others, to develop innovative solutions to achieve global goals.

  Confirmed Keynote Speakers
  "Global Health Challenges and Opportunities," Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine and Tufts University Medical Center; Senior Medical Advisor, amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research; Chair, Global Health Program, Meridian International Center

  "The Challenges of Development and Making Aid Work," Nicholas Kristof, Columnist, The New York Times

  Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon

  "Millennium Villages: Update," Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Village Project

  "Preventing Blindness; Saving Lives," Al Sommer, MD, MHS, Professor and Dean Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  "New Perspectives on Global Health and Science," Harold Varmus, MD, President and Chief Executive, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Former Director of the NIH; Nobel Prize Recipient

  Confirmed Leaders of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Speakers
  "Unite For Sight: Social Entrepreneurship As A Symbol of Hope for the (Poor) Blind Villagers and Refugees in Ghana," James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

  "Strategic Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Advancing Global Health," Greg Dees, PhD, Professor of the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship and co-founder of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business

  "Social Entrepreneurship as a Tool to Strengthen Health Systems," Julia Devin, JD, MPH, Director of Programs, VillageReach

  "Improving Public Health Delivery Through Social Entrepreneurship," Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Directors, mothers2mothers

  "The HealthStore Foundation: Improving Access to Life-Saving Medicines through Micro-Franchising," Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation

  "The Impact of the Food and Nutrition Crisis on the Global Health Agenda," Charles MacCormack, PhD, President and CEO, Save The Children

  "Health Care From The Grassroots," Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Partners in Health; Director, Institute for Health and Social Justice; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital

  Plus 200 more renowned featured speakers: http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

  Posted by: Editorial
  Created on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 05:09
  expires on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 05:19 (1 week 3 days)