CEDPA in the News
Activists and global agencies working on the frontlines of HIV/AIDS called for a major shift in prevention, care and treatment at CEDPA’s May 23 Washington press conference, was held in advance of a United Nations review of global AIDS efforts. Dozens of media reported on the call to focus AIDS efforts on the realities of women’s lives, including the Associated Press, ABC Radio, BET.com, The Christian Science Monitor, Yahoo!/OneWorld news, and Voice of America radio and TV covered the story. CEDPA board member Dottie Lamm noted in a May 28 Denver Post/Rocky Mountain News commentary that “if we hope to succeed against AIDS, we need a comprehensive strategy that will also work to overcome stigma, ignorance and poverty, especially among women.” Read the OneWorld.net article, the Christian Science Monitor article and the Denver Post/Rocky Mountain News commentary.

International Development Expert Appointed to CEDPA Board of Directors
CEDPA appointed Mary McClymont to its board of directors at a recent board meeting in Washington, D.C. McClymont is a recognized expert and opinion leader on issues of international development, humanitarian relief and human rights. She has provided expert testimony and advocated on a range of critical international issues to top U.S. government and United Nations officials, including the U.S. Congress, Secretary of State, Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the National Security Advisor. Read more.

Global Women in Management Program
CEDPA’s Global Women in Management Program will bring together 48 women for two, month-long workshops held in Mexico City (July 24 - Aug. 18) and Washington, D.C. (Aug. 28 - Sept. 22). The program enhances the leadership and management skills of mid-career, non-profit women managers from developing countries, facilitating the exchange of best practices and exposure to cutting edge technical and programmatic information. While their backgrounds are diverse, the women who participate share a passion for improving their communities, and a commitment to strengthening women’s leadership to help move their countries and the world forward. The participants, who are sponsored by the ExxonMobil Foundation’s Educating Women and Girls Initiative, will join a network of more than 5,000 CEDPA alumni who are working to improve communities worldwide. View a video of last year’s GWIM participants in action.

Building Egyptian Youth’s Civic Participation
CEDPA was awarded nearly one million dollars from the U.S. Agency for International Development for the “Enabling Young People’s Civic Participation in Egypt” project. CEDPA will collaborate with the National Council for Youth to encourage young people’s participation in their communities and promote youth engagement in Egypt’s policy process in ten governorates. The two-year project also will reach 1200 young people, aged 20-24, through week-long leadership camps. The camps will educate participants in political and economic issues affecting their country. Read more.

Nigerian Lawmakers Prioritize Maternal Health
In Nigeria, over 300 lawmakers and leaders from national groups and international organizations joined CEDPA May 24 in Abuja to call on the Nigerian government to declare maternal death a national emergency and commit to strategies to make motherhood safer. Nigerian Senate Committee Chairman on Women Affairs Daisy Danjuma described the high rate of maternal mortality as a national problem and called for state and national officials to increase funding for maternal health. Nigerian press and broadcast media covered this event extensively. Read more.

TAACS Advisor Recognized in Fight Against Polio
Recognized for her work in helping to eradicate polio worldwide, CEDPA technical advisor Ellyn Ogden received a prestigious award from Rotary International. Presenting Ogden with the Paul Harris Fellow award, James Lacy, chairman of the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, expressed appreciation of Ogden’s contributions to reducing the number of global polio cases. Ogden is a Child Immunization and Polio Advisor to USAID through the Technical Advisors in AIDS, Child Survival, Infectious Diseases, Population and Basic Education (TAACS) program. Under TAACS, CEDPA has placed and supported 124 health and education advisors over 15 years in 38 USAID offices around the world and in USAID’s headquarters in Washington, DC. Read more.

Community Radio Station to Open in Rural Zambia
Working diligently to open the Kafue Community Radio Station in Zambia this August, CEDPA alum John Nsama is excited about his work. Currently training news readers and announcers, he recruited the station’s employees from a pool of local youth and women. The station’s programs will focus on advocacy for women’s issues, especially marginalization and abuse. Programs will also promote HIV prevention and treatment, as well as youth’s issues. A rural town, Kafue has a high rate of HIV infections and is plagued with malaria. Nsama co-founded the radio station and serves as its chair. He participated in CEDPA’s Youth, Leadership & Reproductive Health workshop in 1998. Read more.

Alumni Design Russian Leadership School for Girls
As businesswomen active in their community, CEDPA alumni Tatiana Gritsenko and Svetlana Zvereva volunteer in the Youth Palace (Junior Chamber). Currently, they are designing what is possibly Russia’s first Leadership School for Girls, adapted from the Russia School for Leadership. Both completed CEDPA’s Global Women in Management Program in 2005. Read more.

Now Available: Women Lead in the Fight Against AIDS
Read the stories of a dynamic group of women who are on the front lines in the fight against AIDS. These 12 leaders came together for CEDPA’s WomenLead in the Fight Against AIDS workshop, held September 12–October 7, 2005 in Washington, DC. Each has a powerful story to tell about AIDS in her country. Their stories help us understand how the pandemic affects the lives of women and their families, and the way forward. Read more.

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