President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

Clinical Manager

Closing date: 14 August 2009

TB/HIV Care Associations Project Integrate seeks applicants for a Clinical Manager based in the head office in Cape Town. This is a one year contract post with the possibility of renewal. Project Integrate is funded by the Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

Basic Care Package (BCP) Project Coordinator

The BCP project is a PEPFAR funded joint venture between SA Partners and Africare. The project promotes early recruitment and retention of newly diagnosed PLWHA into care and support programs. The project will finalize a BCP national curriculum and establish BCP support groups in the Eastern Cape that provide information and support to newly diagnosed individuals at health facilities and within communities.

Toll-Free National HIV Health Care Worker Hotline

The Medicines Information Centre (MIC) is situated within the Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Towns Faculty of Health Sciences. It is the largest and only clinically-based medicine information centre in South Africa and provides information to both public and private sector health care professionals. Established in 1980, it makes a valuable contribution towards supporting rational treatment in South Africa.

Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist

Closing date: 25 January 2008

The Population Council is seeking an experienced health or social scientist to help direct a multi-component program designed to provide HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support and strengthen Reproductive Health services in a number of provinces in South Africa.

Conference in Rwanda Aims To Improve HIV/AIDS Services

Other organizers include UNAIDS, the World Bank, UNICEF and the World Health Organization. Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the conference opening called on African leaders to increase funding for HIV/AIDS services. He also said that the fight against diseases like HIV/AIDS should be made in conjunction with efforts to address poverty and education.

Correctional services shed light on HIV in jails

South Africa's Department of Correctional Services set the record straight on Friday about it being in the dark over the impact of HIV/AIDS on prison inmates. Dismissing reports that the number of HIV-positive prisoners remained unknown to officials, the department's deputy commissioner for communications, Manelisi Wolela, said the facts had been misconstrued.