Media centre

6 March: Multi-stakeholder Panel Discussion: Reducing the burden of HIV/AIDS care on women and girls through equal sharing of responsilities between men and women, 10h20 - 12h30 at Senate Hall, University of Pretoria. Download the invitation [pdf]

8 March:  International Women's Rights Day and International Peace Day

21 March:  South African Human Rights Day, International Day for the elimination of racial discrimination

22 March:  World Day for Water

24 March:  World Tuberculosis Day

23 - 29 March: Child Health Week. UNICEF joins Department of Health in promoting child health during South Africa's first Child Health Week. Dr Ngashi Ngongo, Chief of Health UNICEF South Africa, will be available for interviews to speak about the simple interventions that can significantly reduce child mortality and illness in South Africa. Download the media advisory [word] [pdf] Read the press release

31 March - 3 April: 4th Southern African Aids Conference, International Convention Centre, Durban, South Africa. Theme: "Scaling up for success", recognising that there is an urgency to take stock of best practices in treatment and prevention and to scale these up sufficiently to begin to roll back the numbers and impact of the epidemic in Southern Africa. The conference is organised according to the following tracks:

    * Track 1: Basic Sciences
    * Track 2: Clinical Sciences
    * Track 3: Epidemiology, Prevention, and Public Health
    * Track 4: Social and Economical Sciences, Human rights, and Ethics
    * Track 5: Best Practices and Programmes
    * Track 6: Community Exchange Encounters

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