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John Fowler, who initially was accused of making inappropriate comments to female students, has been issued a formal letter of reprimand and reassigned from Baker School to the Department of Juvenile Justice.
"Based on the totality of testimonies and statements, there is sufficient corroborating evidence that Respondent John Fowler has violated: School Board Equal Opportunity & Treatment (Equity) policy regarding sexual harassment (and) the Code of Ethics and The Principles of Professional Conduct of The Education Profession in Florida," school district investigator Arden Farley wrote in the final report.
Fowler, who had taught at Baker for 16 years, has denied the allegations.
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Baker administrators began looking into Fowler after two parents accused him last September of making inappropriate comments to their daughters.
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In one of the reported incidents, a female student said when she walked past Fowler in the hallway he smiled and said, "Those jeans make you have really nice legs," the report stated.
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"I may have told a student that their dress looks professional or sharp. No, I did not make a comment on her legs," Fowler said. "That would be completely out of my character."
In a subsequent interview, he said he didn't recall it happening at all.
Farley ultimately determined a particular accusation had some merit, but he could only partially confirm it because there were no witnesses.
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On Sunday morning August 12, the International Softball Congress Hall of Fame will host its annual induction breakfast at the Valley Plaza Resort in Midland, MI.
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Doors will open at 7:30 am, with breakfast at 8:00 and the program and inductions at 9:15 am. The event will adjourn at 11:30 am, in advance of the Sunday scheduled games at 12:00 noon at Emerson Park.
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The Class of 2012 includes elite softball players and passionate builders of the sport. Six inductees are being recognized for their collective accomplishments and achievements as players, management and builders.
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PAUL ALGAR, Lexington IL – Pitcher
Originally from New Zealand, Paul Algar made his ISC debut in 1982 as a seventeen year old pitcher Hubbard Construction of Bishop CA and has carved a sterling career spanning 25 ISC World Tournaments.
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Paul entered this year's tournament with 39 career wins, two shy of Todd Martin and Doug Middleton who are tied for 5th at 41 career wins each.
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TODD BUDKE, Lancaster CA – Infielder
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We've compiled the following gallery of new renders, past spy photos, and samples from other BMW models to give you an idea of what the color palette will look like on the 2012 F10 M5. This will hopefully help our future F10 M5 owner members decide on the color for their new M5.
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The online visualizer for the F10 M5 has been online since Thursday, and the German F10 M5 Catalog is now available for download. Together they reveals the range of exterior and interior color options, as well as visual previews of the colors. We list them (and provide some examples) inside.
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Best friends Tyler Poston and Kyle McConnell were enjoying Memorial Day on the river and were headed home when they were involved in a horrific accident that has changed the lives of two families.
Both young men – Poston, age 19 and McConnell, age 20 – survived the accident in which the truck they were in left the roadway and landed in the woods off of County Line Road.
A medical helicopter transported both to Grand Strand Medical Center, where their treatment is continuing.
Karen Poston, Tyler's mother, described her son's inures as severe but expressed her joy that he is alive.
He has had two surgeries since the accident, she said. One was Friday which lasted more than six hours.
That surgery, according to Mrs. Poston, was to repair his knee and ankle. This week's surgery was to deal with damage he received in his back.
McConnell's uncle, Rev. Mark Howard, said his nephew is still in serious condition. The injuries he sustained include broken ribs, a broken jaw, his neck was broken in two places, and his lung was punctured.
Fortunately the neck injury has not caused paralysis, he said.
McConnell – the son of Bobby and Monica McConnell – was in a doctor-induced coma from the time he arrived at the hospital until Friday.
"He has been making progress," Howard said.
He said based on the severity of the accident, both young men are "truly blessed" to be alive.
Both Poston and McConnell have a long road to recovery but they have been the recipients of an overwhelming amount of support.
Mrs. Poston said at one point the visitors were lined up and down the hallway to see McConnell and her son.
Howard said he and his family have been touched by the outpouring of support they have received. Poston said her son's girlfriend, Taylor Cooper and her mother, Renee Cooper have been at the hospital since the beginning which has allowed herself and her husband, Jamie, to make occasional trips back home to be with their other two children.
Both Poston and McConnell attend Screven Baptist Church which has been a tremendous help to the families.
"The support both families have been getting has been a blessing from God," Howard said. "I thank God for everything people from Georgetown and Andrews are doing."
Poston said the church family "has been beyond good."
Both families are asking that people continue to pray.
"Even if he gets out this week, he has a long way to go," Mrs. Poston said of her son.
Friends of both families have started Facebook and Twitter pages, as well as pages for making financial contributions to help with medical expenses.
McConnell's Facebook page is www.facebook.com/pages/Kyle-McConnell-Prayers-Support-page/664586693596088. Updates can also be found be found on Twitter at #doitforkmac.
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Psychologists have long delved into people's memories trying to identify early events that influenced later behavior or choices.
I clearly remember attending a birthday party when I was four years old. Several games were played and when I won one, the prize was a pocket-sized book about trees. All of the pictures were in full color and I spent hours turning the pages, amazed to see flowering trees. My favorite was one with big white flowers that I now realize was a Southern Magnolia.
Although there are Magnolias in Virginia where I grew up, I never encountered one in bloom until I moved to Georgia in my early 20s. There the tree that had captured my childish imagination captivated my adult heart. With its large, creamy white and fragrant lemon-citronella scented flowers, it is little wonder that the Magnolia has become such a beloved iconic symbol of the American South.
The Southern Magnolia, Magnolia grandiflora, also called Evergreen Magnolia or Bull Bay, has a straight trunk that can grow to more than 90 feet and a conical crown. Its native range is from North Carolina to Florida and west to Texas, although it has proven hardy as far north as Philadelphia.
Fast growing throughout most of the Southeast, it is valued as an ornamental but also as a source of hard heavy wood for furniture, cabinetry, veneer, paneling, doors, pallets and boxes. The shiny evergreen leaves with their rust-colored undersides are popular for floral arrangements, wreaths and garlands. A Magnolia's red seeds are eaten by numerous bird and mammal species.
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Q&A is a new series on the Business Intelligence from the Swamp Blog that interviews key members of the Pentaho team to learn more about their focus at Pentaho and outlook on the BI and DI industry. For our first post, we interviewed Mari Jansdotter, Director of Embedded Sales at Pentaho. Mari has been at Pentaho for almost two years and comes to us from SugarCRM. She is based in our San Francisco office and in her free time can can be found chasing around her two adorable kids. 1. How have you seen the OEM landscape change at Pentaho over the past year? It is a whole new playing field! We have seen really positive trends, the most notable being a high increase in inbound interest. Larger organizations, who earlier might only have considered traditional, proprietary vendors for their enterprise-wide projects, are coming to Pentaho to improve upon their already mature product offerings. Our open standards-based architecture allows them to easily integrate Pentaho into existing products. Similarly, start-up and mid-market companies are choosing to build new products on Pentaho's platform because our end-to-end functionality can scale with them as...
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It is always good to get out and meet old friends and new, when the sales calendar permits. A great way to combine meeting the public and keeping up Pentaho's increasing momentum in the EMEA region is attending events. This month has seen seven so far; the launch of our EMEA HQ in Sweden, the Ovum Business Intelligence summit in London, our sponsorship of the Hadoop User Group, also in London, as well as dates for the Pentaho Agile BI Tour , which is ongoing for another few months First and foremost was the launch of our EMEA HQ in a city which has seen its fair share of Open Source innovation – Stockholm. Held in the famous 100 year old Dramaten theatre and co-hosted by Pentaho partner Omicron, an invited audience of around 50 heard from Lars Nordwall, our Swedish-born Senior Vice-President of Sales (pictured left), as well as partners Conduct and BizIntel. A great success in terms of networking, we will follow up with another event towards the end of the year also at the Dramaten, so feel free to let me know if you can make it...
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CNN.com recently worked with Money and PayScale.com to create a list of the 100 Best Jobs In America . This list measures and ranks jobs by their pay, work satisfaction and growth opportunity. We are excited to announce that our own Pentaho Chief Geek and CTO, James Dixon made #35 on the list! Check it out: If you are looking to join a company that provides an exciting work environment that fosters creativity, presents rewarding technical challenges, and encourages experimentation, check out our open positions worldwide in engineering, marketing, sales and services. Maybe you could make this list next year! Learn more about career opportunities with Pentaho here: www. pentaho .com/ careers /
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Congrats to our new partner Cloudera for putting on a great event this week. Hadoop World 2010 was a huge success - with over 900 attendees. It was great to talk to companies using Hadoop and those looking to solve their big data problems. We were also excited to have such a great showing at our presentation at the very end of the day with standing room only! On Wednesday, following Hadoop World, the Pentaho Agile BI Tour arrived in NYC. Pentaho and its partner Project Leadership Associates presented a special half-day seminar focused on Agile BI and Big Data. We also hosted the first of three special OEM Power Lunches for companies interested in embedding Pentaho. For an insider's look at our Week of Hadoop check out our slide show below. If you missed our four announcements Tuesday about the availability of Pentaho Data Integration and Pentaho BI Suite for Hadoop and our new partnerships you can read what the press and analyst have to say: Hadoop pitched for business intelligence ITWorld.com, Joab Jackson Pentaho Adds Hadoop Support CTO Edge, Mike Vizard Pentaho Brings Businss intellgience to Hadoop ECRMGuide,...
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Earlier this week, at Hadoop World in New York, Pentaho announced availability of our first Hadoop release. As part of the initial research into the Hadoop arena I talked to many companies that use Hadoop. Several common attributes and themes emerged from these meetings: 80-90% of companies are dealing with structured or semi-structured data (not unstructured). The source of the data is typically a single application or system. The data is typically sub-transactional or non-transactional. There are some known questions to ask of the data. There are many unknown questions that will arise in the future. There are multiple user communities that have questions of the data. The data is of a scale or daily volume such that it won't fit technically and/or economically into an RDBMS. In the past the standard way to handle reporting and analysis of this data was to identify the most interesting attributes, and to aggregate these into a data mart. There are several problems with this approach: Only a subset of the attributes are examined, so only pre-determined questions can be answered. The data is aggregated so visibility into the lowest levels is lost...
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It's everywhere and expanding exponentially every day. But it might as well be a pile of %#$& unless you can turn all of that data into information. And do so in a timely, efficient and cost-effective manner. The old-school vendors don't operate in a timely (everything is slow), efficient (everything is over-engineered, over-analyzed, over-staffed, etc) or cost-effective mode (the bloated supertanker needs feeding and the customer gets to pay for those inefficiencies), so that means new technologies and business models will drive innovation which ultimately serves the customers and communities. Back to Data, Data, Data - Enter open source technologies like Hadoop and Pentaho BI/DI to drive next gen big data analytics to the market. Hadoop and Pentaho have both been around about 5 years, are both driven by very active communities, and have both been experiencing explosive growth over the last 18 months. Our community members are the ones who came up with the original integration points for the two techs, not because it was a fun, science project thing to do but because they had real business pains they were trying to solve. This all started in 2009...
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Quick Bit About Pentaho Pentaho has been all about building and delivering a scalable, complete end-to-end BI Suite from day one. From making the software "possible" during those humble beginnings to making it "available" and now "easy". You will find that Pentaho has an extensive offering that is both flexible and intuitive. Pentaho software has been targeted as the Commercial Open Source BI alternative by System Integrators, Consultancies, Enterprises, OEMs and SMBs. It has been deployed worldwide in a variety of industries; supporting mission critical applications which encompass both data integration and information delivery, all provided by "one" vendor, Pentaho. The Pentaho Pre-Sales Sandbox The Pre-Sales Sandbox is a resource that will streamline the effectiveness of the Evaluation/Selection process. With this resource at hand, you will be able to make an informed decision as quickly and efficiently as possible. Examples, tutorials, consolidated information are staged here to view and download to assist you in your evaluation process. Please be aware that the collateral available on this site can be posted on a moments notice and is intended to serve the masses as quickly as possible. Therefore the content downloaded may...
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Big things are happening at Pentaho this month, with an emphasis on Big Data . We are headlining Hadoop events in New York, London and San Diego. If you are attending Hadoop World in New York City on October 12th, make sure to stop by our booth and attend Richard Daley's session, ' Putting Analytics in Big Data Analysis '. Then stay around until the 13th for a special FREE half-day seminar, ' Agile BI Meets Big Data ' with our partners, Project leadership Associates. All the while, we're still on the road with the Agile BI Tour hitting full force in October. We'll be visiting 10 more cities around the world with these info-packed seminar and training sessions. Directly following the Agile BI events in New York, San Mateo, and Houston, Pentaho will be hosting a special OEM Power Lunch , where we will explore Pentaho's architecture, hear some specific OEM use cases, and introduce you to the Pentaho OEM team. Hadoop Events Join us to see how we're simplifying the complexities of Big Data Analytics with Pentaho's Biggest initiative to date, Pentaho for Hadoop. October 6 – San...
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A few years ago when talking with some potential investors I heard on more than one occasion " Everybody already has BI " or " The market is saturated with BI products. " Quite the contrary – even the few companies that have BI or Data Integration products are just scratching the surface of their potential usage. Many projects are only rolled out to a limited set of users, handcuffed by the outrageous price of most products on the market. And what about all of the other projects that never even started due to cost constraints? And what about the rest of the companies on the planet who could never even buy their first BI/DI products? And what about all of the applications that could desperately use some embedded BI/analytical capabilities but due to cost and technical constraints of the old guard BI companies could never get off these efforts of the ground. Imagine how frustrating it can be when the needs and requirements to make your business run more efficiently and effectively are held hostage by a few large software vendors. Thus, the founding of Pentaho and the democratization...
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I consider true strength to be the functional strength you can use. To me the strongest people are the really good fighters, I don't care if you can bence a whole shitload of iron or you have rippling abs or whatnot. If you can defeat another man in a NHB situation whether if be a barfight or MMA match you are stronger that that man (even if he is bigger, has more defined muscles or he can lift more or do more pushups than you can). That's just my own opinion though.
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The North Carolina General Assembly made waves in 2013.
The state legislature, led by a Republican majority and enjoying generally solid support from an executive branch led by Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, made sweeping changes. Supporters cheered the increase in fiscal and moral conservatism, but opponents gathered in massive numbers for the Moral Monday protests.
And although the goings on in Lee County didn't make national news like the action in Raleigh did, they were still highly contentious. Leading the local changes was Rep. Mike Stone, a second-term Republican who represents Harnett County and parts of Lee County.
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One of his local bills switched the Sanford City Council and Lee County Board of Education from non-partisan boards — meaning that officials can't run as a member of a political party — to partisan ones.
Most of the members of those boards were not pleased, accusing Stone of surprising them with the changes and being hypocritical by using his state position to craft local policy. But he defended the bill.
"Many citizens of Sanford and Lee County asked for this change, and have asked for such a change for years," Stone told The Herald in April after the bill was introduced. "Elected officials serve at the pleasure of the voters. I am confident that local leaders will embrace the citizens' wishes with a positive attitude."
The city council and the school board passed resolutions against the bill, but to no avail. The school board called Stone's tactics "highly improper, discourteous and a violation of trust and his fiduciary responsibility to the citizens of Lee County" in a 4-3 vote, even though five members were, at the time, Republicans like Stone.
The school board still has not had an election under the new rules, but the city has. In it, no Republican challengers won — and no Republicans even tried to campaign for mayor or for one of the three council seats up for grabs.
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That's not all he was up to. The legislature passed another law introduced by Stone to remove all the members of the Central Carolina Community College board of trustees who were appointed by the Lee County school board — all of them Democrats or unaffiliated voters — from office and split those seats up among the Lee, Chatham and Harnett school boards.
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A Compendium of Programs in Africa
This compendium describes how 31 programs in Africa are using gender strategies to improve HIV services and reduce vulnerability to HIV infection. Click on the tabs below to see how these programs are combining strategies, where gaps exist, what lessons were learned, and common experiences across programs.
From these 31 programs, 5 were selected as subjects of in-depth case studies. The five case studies and the resulting findings report are integrated into the compendium below, or you can view the whole Africa Gender Compendium Case Study Series.
View the Africa Gender Compendium Case Study Series Findings Report
What is the Compendium?
The public health and international development communities have known for nearly two decades that gender – the way in which societies define acceptable roles, responsibilities and behaviors of women and men – strongly influences HIV vulnerability and how people respond to the epidemic. There is growing recognition that using multiple approaches in HIV/AIDS programming is more effective than single strategies.
Recognizing the many links between gender and the continuing global AIDS epidemic, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) advocates for the inclusion of gender strategies in HIV prevention, treatment, and care and support programs around the world.
Despite increased understanding of the link between gender and HIV and, more recently, the value of using multiple gender strategies to mitigate women's and men's vulnerability, little is known about how HIV programs are applying these insights to improve programs and services. To expand this knowledge base, PEPFAR's Gender Technical Working Group commissioned AIDSTAR-One to compile a compendium of HIV prevention, treatment, and care and support programs in sub-Saharan Africa that are integrating multiple gender strategies into their work.
The resulting compendium describes how 31 programs in Africa are using gender strategies to improve HIV services and reduce vulnerability to HIV infection. The compendium provides examples of how strategies are combined, where gaps exist, lessons learned, and common experiences across programs.
From these 31 programs, five were selected as subjects of in-depth case studies. Click on the links to the right to view the interactive case studies.
Summary of Findings
Many HIV programs have begun integrating multiple gender strategies.
Programs reported numerous benefits of using gender strategies in combination.
Multiple gender strategies are most common in prevention, care and support HIV programming. They are least common in treatment programs.
Addressing gender-based violence is a key strategy to reducing HIV risk.
Increasing women's legal protection was the least developed of the four gender strategies.
Community involvement and participatory approaches may contribute significantly to program sustainability.
Involving men is a challenge that can be met with innovative approaches.
- In Zambia's border towns and commercial corridors, the HIV prevalence rate has been significantly increased by a high transient population. This case study details the efforts of the Corridors of...
- In South Africa, men are increasingly rejecting wide-spread stereotypes of manhood by stepping forward to challenge gender roles that compromise their well-being and the health of their partners and...
- The Polyclinic of Hope in Rwanda takes a comprehensive approach to combating gender-based violence for genocide survivors affected by HIV by facilitating support groups, encouraging income generation...
- A complex matrix of factors, such as low literacy, early sexual initiation, and limited economic opportunities, increases the vulnerability of women to HIV infection in Mozambique. The Women First...
- In Kenya, the government's work against HIV is supplemented frequently by civil society organizations (CSOs). These organizations, however, are often faced with a lack of available funding and...
All programs selected for the compendium were reviewed to identify lessons for program and policy audiences, such as:
- How multiple gender strategies were employed
- Gaps in programmatic efforts
- Similar and dissimilar approaches, experiences and lessons across programs
The review showed that many innovative programs exist in sub-Saharan Africa and implementers are successfully integrating multiple gender approaches into HIV programs. Combining gender strategies produces numerous benefits, including ensuring project salience and relevance, extending project reach, and reflecting the multiple, inter-related needs of beneficiaries.
Most programs lack rigorous data collection and evaluation, often because implementers do not have sufficient resources or technical capacity. Though all the programs featured in the Compendium are have strong gender components, few collect findings related to gender outcomes.
Of programs implementing two or more gender strategies:
- Reducing gender-based violence was most common
- Increasing women's legal protection was the least common
- Programs often addressed male norms and behaviors in combination with gender-based violence efforts, successfully engaging men with innovative approaches; and
- Strategies to increase women's income were combined with other strategies to sustain women's capacity to address a range of issues in their lives, including violence and HIV
Programs that seek to initiate gender-based programming for the first time or to expand their current gender programming should be encouraged to include gender strategies in combination. These strategies are mutually reinforcing, while the costs of adding new gender components may be relatively low.
However, funders and program implementers should determine which strategies to combine, and how best to combine them, based on the specific gender constraints experienced by target audiences. Context-specific consequences of combining programming – both positive and negative – also must be considered and addressed. For example, program implementers have described increased spousal violence experienced by women who participated in income generation activities.
Targeted Recommendatrions
- Programs should combine gender strategies to address gender constraints of target audiences, which will strengthen HIV programs.
- Implementers need flexibility to adapt programming based on new findings to build in and combine gender strategies.
- Increasing the involvement of men –especially young men –should remain a high priority.
- Gender-based violence should be considered a key component in HIV programming, addressing other gender strategies and involving a broad range of actors.
- All programs should have a strong evaluation component
- Involvement and leadership from the community is integral to changing gender norms.
- Reducing violence and coercion (#)
- Addressing male norms and behaviors (#)
- Increasing women's legal protection (#)
- Increasing women's access to income and productive resources (#)
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Binti Pamoja
Binti Pamoja (Daughters United) is a reproductive health and women's rights center for adolescent girls living in a slum area of Nairobi. The center...
Biruh Tesfa (Bright Future)
Biruh Tesfa works with migrant adolescent girls who have relocated to urban areas and are at risk of coerced sex, transactional sex and exploitative...
Community Care in Nigeria
Community Care in Nigeria improves community and household capacity to respond to the needs of women and children affected by HIV and AIDS. Services...
Comprehensive Sexuality, Family Life, and HIV/AIDS Education
Comprehensive Sexuality, Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education (SLFHE) is a three-year program that trains teachers to implement a project-developed...
Corridors of Hope II
The Corridors of Hope II HIV/AIDS Prevention Initiative (COH II) aims to decrease HIV transmission, morbidity and mortality in seven of the highest-...
Engendering Equality
The Engendering Equality project seeks to improve the status of rural women, children and youth by increasing access to information about the links...
Ethiopian Radio Serial Dramas to Prevent HIV/AIDS
Population Media Center uses radio serial dramas to promote reproductive health, provide information about preventing HIV and sexually transmitted...
Family and Community Strengthening Program (FCS)
The Family and Community Strengthening (FCS) program provides a tailored package of activities based on the needs of HIV-affected communities....
Geração Biz
Geração Biz works to prevent HIV among young people in Mozambique by promoting adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Peer activists reach out to...
HIV & AIDS Counseling and Services
The HIV & AIDS Counseling and Services program provides counseling and prevention services to individuals, couples, family members, and...
IMAGE (Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity)
IMAGE (Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity) is a community-based research study that combines a microfinance program to reduce...
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Laphum' Ilanga (Sunrise)
Laphum' Ilanga ("sunrise" in Xhosa) uses community-based theater to explore the links between gender-based violence, gender norms and HIV. Women...
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Maanisha builds the capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) to mainstream gender into HIV-related into community activities targeting women...
Male Norms Initiative
The program is building the capacity of existing HIV/AIDS programs to integrate male engagement strategies at all levels (individuals, community,...
Mama's Club
Mama's Club seeks to improve the economic status of HIV-positive mothers by training them in life skills and income-generating activities. HIV-...
Memory Book
The Memory Book project aims to minimize the trauma of parental loss by strengthening the relationships between HIV positive parents and their...
Nuru ya Jamii
Nuru ya Jamii works to prevent HIV-driven orphaning by providing assistance and care to HIV-positive caregivers and their children. The program...
Operation Haute Protection (OHP)
Operation Haute Protection (OHP) seeks to reduce HIV prevalence among uniformed services personnel and their families. OHP implements behavior change...
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Polyclinic of Hope Care and Treatment Project
The Polyclinic of Hope Care and Treatment Project provides comprehensive, quality HIV and AIDS prevention, care, support and treatment to HIV-...
Post Rape Care
Post Rape Care offers an array of post-rape services in government health facilities and works to improve community awareness about sexual violence,...
Shosholoza AIDS Project
The project trains and supports young men on local soccer teams to conduct peer education sessions aimed at preventing HIV and reducing violence...
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Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication (IHDC) Project
The Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication (Soul City IHDC) is a South African-based regional health and development...
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Stepping Stones – Adapted for South African Youth
Stepping Stones is an HIV prevention training package first implemented in Uganda and recently replicated and tested in South Africa by the Medical...
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Survival Skills Training for Orphans (SSTOP)
Survival Skills Training for Orphans (SSTOP) works to reduce involvement in transactional sex among orphans and vulnerable teenage girls. Through the...
T-MARC (The Tanzania Marketing and Communications for AIDS, Reproductive Health, Child Survival and Infectious Diseases Project)
The Tanzania Marketing and Communications for AIDS, Reproductive Health, Child Survival and Infectious Diseases Project (T-MARC) uses business...
Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY)
Tap and Reposition Youth (TRY) was a research project in low income areas of Nairobi that sought to improve adolescent girls' reproductive health...
Targeting and Involving Men in HIV Prevention Activities
The primary goals of the program are (1) to reduce risk for sexually transmitted infections among Batswana men and their partners, and (2) to improve...
The Fatherhood and Child Security Project
The Fatherhood and Child Security project supports men to play a more active role in the lives of their families, to work to eliminate violence...
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The SASA! Activist Kit for Preventing Violence against Women and HIV
The SASA! program aims to mobilize communities to change the power imbalance between women and men, reduce gender based violence, and reduce women's...
Women First (Mulheres Primero)
Women First combines health, HIV prevention, and entrepreneurial training with the establishment of sustainable businesses for rural women....
Women's Health CoOp, Pretoria
The Women's Health CoOp, Pretoria intervention seeks to empower at-risk women, particularly drug users and sex workers, through education and skills...
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We would like to thank the many colleagues who contributed to the development of this compendium. The members of the PEPFAR Gender Technical Working Group whose vision and technical input provided ongoing guidance and support to this effort include:
Lisa An (USAID) Marissa Bohrer (OGAC, USAID)
Nomi Fuchs-Montgomery (OGAC) Clint Liveoak (CDC)
Lauren Murphy (OGAC) Emily Osinoff (USAID)
Diana Prieto (USAID) Susan Settergren (CDC)
Madeleine Short (CDC) Laura Skolnik (USAID)
David Stanton (USAID) Anna Williams (USAID)
At ICRW, the vision for the Compendium began with Geeta Rao Gupta, Jessica Ogden, and Linda Sussman. The dedicated ICRW team brought the document to fruition, demonstrating real commitment to this effort. Team members include: Saranga Jain Anne Stangl Katherine Fritz Zayid Douglas Traci Eckhaus Noni Milici We would also like to thank the ICRW Communications team for their editorial support and finishing touches: Margo Young, Sandra Bunch, and consultant, Jennifer Nadeau. At AIDSTAR-One, we would like to thank Sharon Stash, Ed Scholl, Andrew Fullem, Frank DeSarbo, and Deborah Roseman for their ongoing support. We would also like to thank the USAID Cognizant Technical Officer manager of AIDSTAR-One, Shyami DeSilva.
We are grateful to the technical experts, who generously gave of their time and expertise in reviewing a draft of the Compendium, including:
Michal Avni (USAID) Elizabeth Benomar (UNFPA)
Dr. Lynn Collins (UNFPA) Nazneen Damji (UNIFEM)
Andrew Fullem (JSI) Geeta Rao Gupta (ICRW)
Karen Hardee (Population Action International) Julia Kim (University of the Witwatersrand; London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine)
Purnima Mane (UNFPA) Manisha Mehta (EngenderHealth)
Ken Morrison (Constella Futures) Ben Ochieng (Population Council)
Jessica Ogden (ICRW) Dr. Mary Otieno (UNFPA)
Julio Pacca (Pathfinder) Deborah Roseman (JSI)
Ed Scholl (JSI) Kathleen Selvaggio (ICRW)
Sharon Stash (JSI) Richard Strickland (USAID)
Ellen Weiss (ICRW) Terri Wingate (CDC – Côte d'Ivoire)
Most of all, it is with a great deal of respect and admiration that we thank the dedicated colleagues who are implementing the programs that are represented in this compendium. They are a visionary and dedicated group of thought leaders who are demonstrating how gender approaches can be incorporated into HIV/AIDS programs. We thank them for taking the time from their extremely busy schedules to share program details and lessons they have learned in implementing these programs.
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