PHA-Exchange> CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: EQUITY IN HIV/AIDS (ACCESS)

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From: "Rene Loewenson" <rene at tarsc.org>
 Southern African Regional Network on Equity in Health (EQUINET)  in
co-operation with OXFAM (GB)
>
> GRANTS/AWARDS:
> Technical paper and review meetings on
> EQUITY ISSUES IN HIV/AIDS, HEALTH SECTOR RESPONSES AND TREATMENT ACCESS
> IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
>
> ***This call closes on 24 January 2003************
>
> The Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET)
> and Oxfam GB are inviting expressions of interest from individuals or
> organizations based within the region for a programme of work on Equity
> issues in HIV/AIDS, Health Sector Responses and Treatment Access in
> Southern Africa between February and July 2003.
>
> EQUINET and Oxfam seek to inform the policy debates and advocacy  that
> have grown around health sector responses to HIV/AIDS in the region,
> particularly with respect to care and health sector responses and
> treatment access within the region. This work will be supported by a
> review panel of key personnel working on HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa and
> internationally,  and will include
> i.    the commissioning of a technical paper,
> ii.   the holding of a one day review meeting in February / March 2003
> to review current knowledge and refine further the scope for the
> technical paper at regional and country level
> iii.  peer review by the review panel of the paper produced and
> discussion of follow up work.

> CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> EQUINET and Oxfam are thus calling for expressions of interest from
> individuals or organizations based within the region to prepare the
> technical / research paper for this programme of work.
>
> The research paper will review evidence and make recommendations on:
>
> 1. Equity issues in current health sector responses in southern Africa
> to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the extent to which these are associated
> with increased/decreased risk of HIV infection or vulnerability to the
> impacts of HIV/AIDS.
>
> 2. The public policy choices now being faced and made in relation to the
> health sector response to the epidemic in southern Africa, with analysis
> of the equity implications of these policy options and of the choices
> currently proposed or being made. This will include a specific focus on
> treatment access policies and practice.
>
> 3.Recommendations for equitable public policy within the health sector
> and mapping of the policy platforms and institutional agents that need
> to be engaged for such recommendations to be taken forward.
>
> The paper will be expected to provide information for the region from
> secondary sources, but to also provide more indepth information from
> primary sources at country (and district) level from at least three
> countries within Southern Africa. Point (2) is the primary focus of the
> paper.
>
> Equinet/ Oxfam will make available a grant for the work and travel funds
> of up to USd9 000 and will further support the costs of participation of
> the applicant at the one day review meeting  in South Africa in
> February/March 2003.
> The paper is expected to be produced between March 2003 and July 2003.
>
> SUBMISSION PROCEDURES FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Applicants requested to submit  a more detailed scope of work of no more
> than two pages based on the three points above,  that outlines further
> the issues to be addressed within each point, the major sources of
> information and the countries to be covered through primary sources.
> Applications should be accompanied by a CV. Applications should also
> include or provide a url for a sample of a previous paper written by the
> applicant.
>
> The application should give evidence of experience and competence in
> this area and of a conceptual understanding of the broad issues around
> which evidence will be presented.
>
> Applicants should submit this information by 24th January 2003  to
> Equinet  at
> admin at equinetafrica.org or at +263-4-737220 (address attention R
> Loewenson).
>
> Applicants will be informed by 5th February 2003 if they have been
> successful. Successful applicants will be invited to attend the regional
> workshop provisionally scheduled for late February 2003 (with full
> funding from Equinet). Applicants must, therefore, be available to
> attend this workshop.  Participants of existing Equinet programmes are
welcome to apply.