Thanks to JVnet for this posting. Any institution in Burma / Myanmar can apply.
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Award offered to recognize home-based care leadership in responding to HIV and AIDS
Introduction
AIDS has changed the fabric of communities around the world and placed a burden on the lives of many people, especially girls and women, young and old. With health systems failing and people living longer with HIV thanks to access to antiretrovirals (ARVs), mainly poor women, are increasingly forced to devote their time, energy, skills and the little resources to care for their family members at home and provide their services to the wider community, often at great expense to themselves. This invisible task-shifting is insufficiently recognized, valued and validated as work.
The Catholic Organization for Relief and Development (Cordaid) and partners of the Caregivers Action Alliances (CAA) Organizing Committee (HelpAge International, Huairou Commission, VSO International) as well as the World YWCA, wish to reward and encourage leadership around the strengthening of home based care in responding to HIV and AIDS in the "global South" by awarding 15,000 to an organization and 5,000 to an individual.
Cordaid and partners are seeking applications from organizations or individuals committed to supporting home based care as a necessary, effective, and community-based initiative recognizing home-based care as an insufficiently resourced, under-valued and unrecognized solution for mitigating the effects of HIV and AIDS.
You are invited to promote the award and submit nominations.
What Can You Do?
Nominations for the awards can be sent until 15 September 2009.
1. Download the Rules and Procedures
As a pdf: http://cordaidpartners.com/rooms/hiv-and-aids-award-2009/documents/522-rules-and-procedures-pdf or a Word document: http://cordaidpartners.com/rooms/hiv-and-aids-award-2009/documents/537-rules-and-procedures-word>
2. Fill in the Application Form
As a pdf: http://cordaidpartners.com/rooms/hiv-and-aids-award-2009/documents/552-application-form-pdf Or a Word document: http://cordaidpartners.com/rooms/hiv-and-aids-award-2009/documents/540-application-form-word
3. Nominations must be e-mailed as a pdf or Microsoft Word (.doc or docx) file attachment to HIV_and_AIDS_Award@cordaid.nl
In case of multiple nominations these should be sent each as a separate email.
4. Promote the Award! An outreach package has been prepared with ideas on how to promote the award: http://www.cordaidpartners.com/rooms/hiv-and-aids-award-2009/posts/296-outreach-package-to-promote-the-award>
