Science

Closing date: 24 March 2008

C A S E is seeking to fill the following senior positions that will involve strategic, management and mentoring responsibilities.

The provision of appropriate reproductive health care remains one of the main health care challenges in developing countries. The development of the delivery of reproductive health services is continually confronted by challenges from a changing environment, an important element of which is health sector reform, in particular decentralisation, which is being undertaken by most governments in Africa.

The health department has agreed to provide the pharmacy industry's lawyers with documents and videos detailing how its pricing committee set the pharmacists' dispensing fee, avoiding a public confrontation over the matter in court.

The Regional network for equity in health in east and southern Africa (EQUINET) is calling for expressions of interest from researchers based in countries within East and Southern Africa (ESA) to undertake country level research into distribution of the costs and benefits of health worker migration.

On Friday, 1 December 2006, five sets of regulations were published by the Department of Health.

In December 2004, the Medicines Control Council(MCC) rejected an application by the university for the approval of a clinical trial which would involve the administration of Nevirapine as a prophylactic to babies in order to prevent the transmission of the HIV virus from HIV infected mothers to their infants during breast feeding.

In order to improve the quality of information it is critical that there are sufficiently well-trained staff members at provincial and district level that are able to process data that are collected and who are able to ensure that the quality is reliable. They need to have sufficient skills to do the work that is expected of them. They also need the appropriate IT equipment, hardware and software, as well as access to information to do their jobs effectively.

Closing date: 31 May 2006

The Child, Youth, Family and Social Development Programme is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified person to work within one of their research projects called Project Accept. The study is a community-based HIV/AIDS prevention intervention that attempts to impact on HIV incidence, risk behavior, stigma and discrimination in communities in the Vulindlela area. Staff will be based at a research site in Sweetwaters, just outside Pietermaritzburg.