Call for Abstracts: Fast tracking the HIV Prevention response in the new Health and Development agenda: African Journal of AIDS Research on HIV Prevention Special Issue.

Given the clarion call for a strong narrative on issues of social transformation to be embedded in the SDG framework, the InternationalAIDS Conference in 2016 presents all stakeholders with a strategic opportunity to debate how the HIV prevention response in the East and Southern African region should be shaped going forward. HEARD, UKZN will partner with UNAIDS, World Bank, Sida/Norad and other relevant multi-laterals to produce a special issue on HIV prevention: Fast racking the HIV Prevention Response in the New Health and Development Agenda. Interested authors should initially submit a 250 word abstract by 7 December 2015 to: ajar.editor@nisc.co.za

Detailed instructions can be found at: http://www.nisc.co.za/products/1/journals/african-journal-of-aids-research

About the Award

In East and Southern Africa, 35% of women are married before age 18. Globally, over 650 million women alive today were married as children. Child marriage is rooted in gender inequality and is exacerbated by poverty, insecurity and conflict.

Launched in 2018, RIATT-ESA in partnership with the the African Union and with support from Media Monitoring Africa, launched an award for journalists reporting on Child Marriage. The award was developed in support the African Union Campaign to End Child Marriage Campaign, in an effort to enhance the promotion and protection of the rights of girls and women in Africa. The primary objective of the Award is to promote reporting of child marriage issues; hence raising public awareness, understanding and galvanizing action against child marriage.

The first awards were handed out in 2019 during the during the 3rd STC & SDLE of the African Union.