Summary: Paper and panel presentations are
sought that address this complex
health and social issue from all
academic and practitioner
perspectives. Deadline for paper
abstracts: January 15 2002.
HIV/AIDS AND THE AFRICAN CHILD:
Health Challenges, Educational Possibilities
Source: http://www.ohiou.edu/Toguna
Contact: lamin@ohio.edu.
April 11-13, 2002, Athens, Ohio USA.
Call for papers. The Institute for the African Child at Ohio
University announces its fourth annual conference, HIV/AIDS and
the African Child: Health Challenges, Educational Possibilities, to
be held in Athens, Ohio from 11-13 April
2002. Paper and panel presentations are sought that address
this complex health and social issue from all academic and
practitioner perspectives. Deadline for paper abstracts: January
15 2002.
INSTITUTE FOR THE AFRICAN CHILD
CALL FOR PAPERS
HIV/AIDS and the African Child:
Health Challenges, Educational Possibilities
April 11-13, 2002
Athens, Ohio USA
The Institute for the African Child at Ohio University announces its
fourth
annual conference, HIV/AIDS and the African Child: Health
Challenges,
Educational Possibilities, to be held in Athens, Ohio from 11-13
April
2002. Paper and panel presentations are sought that address
this complex
health and social issue from all academic and practitioner
perspectives.
The Institute for the African Child was founded in 1998 to
promote
collaboration between Ohio University's Colleges of Arts and
Sciences,
Communication, Education, Health and Human Services and
Osteopathic
Medicine on every dimension of children and child survival across
Africa.
Previous conferences have focused on the African girl child, child
soldiers, and on setting an agenda for the Institute. The Institute
sponsors a series of courses during the Summer Quarter,
attracting graduate
students and professionals from all over Africa.
Scholars and practitioners from every discipline are encouraged
to
participate in the conference with papers and/or media
presentations
related to its broad theme, stressing descriptive, analytical and
prescriptive approaches to the issues of HIV/AIDS and the Africa's
children. Children and their families, communities and the state,
are all
possible foci of presentations as well in that the Institute for the
African Child fosters interdisciplinary research. 'HIV/AIDS
Awareness in
the Secondary Curriculum and Teacher Preparation,' 'Medical
Intervention
with Children with AIDS in Rural Areas,' 'AIDS and Refugee
Populations,'
'School Teachers and HIV/AIDS' would be a few examples of
paper topics. We
hope to have as many regions of the continent as possible
represented in
the presentations.
Send a one-page abstract by January 15, 2002 to Mr. Abdul
Lamin, Conference
Coordinator, Institute for the African Child, Burson House, Ohio
University, Athens, OH 45701 USA or by email to lamin@ohio.edu.
Registration materials for the conference are available by mail
and online at www.ohiou.edu/Toguna. Dr. Diane Ciekawy in the
Department of Sociology
and Anthropology at Ohio University is the Conference Convener.
In cooperation with the Institute for the African Child, Ohio
University
Press will publish a volume related to this conference, edited by
Arvind
Singhal and Stephen Howard. Prospective publication date is
World AIDS Day,
2003. See accompanying call for papers for the book for further
information.
Owner: Mr. Abdul LaminAssociation: Institute of the African Child: Ohio University