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Understanding Human Sexuality Seminar Series - Call for Abstracts
HST
2005-08-02

The Health System Trust in association with the Womens Health Research Unit at the School of Public Health of the University of Cape Town, is pleased to call for abstracts for the 2005 editions of its Understanding Human Sexuality Seminar Series. This seminar is being organised to co-incide with the initiative of the Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre in Nigeria. The seminar is open to the general public. It is an opportunity for scholars, students, social workers, practitioners, and policy makers interested in any aspect of the field of Sexuality in Africa to learn, share experiences and engender healthy, respectful, responsible and pleasurable sexuality.

The goal of the Understanding Human Sexuality Seminar Series is to promote more informed and affirming public dialogue on human sexuality, in order to engender positive changes in relevant policies and programmes on the African continent.

The Objectives are as follows:

• Provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, lessons learned and advocacy with a view to expand thinking and action in favour of healthy, respectful, responsible and pleasurable sexuality 
• Contribute to the documentation of views, experiences and emerging knowledge on sexuality-related issues in Africa

The theme for 2005 Seminar for the third quarter of 2005 is: 

• Sexuality, Beyond Reproduction 

We would encourage people interested in presenting papers to submit an abstract before 20 August, 2005. 

If you are resident in Cape Town (or visiting South Africa) and would like to make a presentation, you are welcome to submit an abstract (300 words maximum) with your full names, contact address, phone number, email address and a brief about yourself as you would like it to appear in the seminar proceedings. Full-length papers will be requested only from short listed candidates. The proposed date for the 1 day seminar is 16 September 2005 from 9h00 to 15h00, in Seminar room 1 & 2, at the Barnard Fuller Building, Medical School, University of Cape Town.

Publication
Selected seminar papers will be published every quarter by the Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre (ARSRC) based in Lagos, with the permission of the authors. At the end of the year, there will be four (4) rich Africa volumes. 

All correspondence should be addressed to Understanding Human Sexuality Seminar Series, Health Systems Trust , Riverside Centre, 1st Floor, Cnr. Belmont and Main Road, Rondebosch, 7700. Fax 021 689 3329. Email: mercia@hst.org.za 

Please visit the ARSRC website www.arsrc.org - for more information about the Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre initiative and to read the papers that were presented in the 2004 seminars.

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