Sixth ISSBD International Africa Regional Workshop
Call for Papers
Submission of a 250-word abstracts are solicited for the Sixth ISSBD International Africa
Regional Workshop to be held in Yaoundé, Cameroon, July 25-31 2004 on the Theme:
HIV/AIDS and the African Youth: Theory, Research and Practice with Youth in Peer
Education, Families and Communities. Your submission should fit into a theme of any of the
workshop forums. Accordingly, please indicate whether your submission should be
considered for the symposia, workshops, and roundtables, poster or special event. We would
like to notify you that the Organizing Committee retains the prerogative to decide the format
for which your submission is most suitable and you will be accordingly informed.
The deadline for receipt of abstracts shall be March 31, 2004. Because we intend to consider
your submission for publication under the tentative title “Workshop Proceedings,” we would
appreciate your submission of the completed paper by May 31, 2004.
Limited financial support will be available for ISSBD African members on a competitive
basis.
Details of the workshop are as follows:
Venue: Yaoundé, Cameroon (Site of the first workshop of this series)
Theme: HIV/AIDS and the African Youth: Theory, Research and Practice with Youth in Peer
Education, Families and Communities
Date of the Workshop: Sunday, July 25 to Saturday, July 31, 2004
Organizing Committee: Chair – Prof. Therese M. Tchombe (tmtchombe@yahoo.co.uk),
Secretary – Dr/Sr. Euphresia Yuh (e_yuh2001@yahoo.com), Liaison – Dr. Bame
Nsamenang (bame51@yahoo.com), Coordinator, Francophone World – Prof. JacquesPhilippe Tsala-Tsala, (tsalatsala2003@yahoo.fr) Members – ISSBD President, ISSBD
Secretary, ISSBD Treasurer, Dr. Brigitte Matchinda, Prof. Peter Baguma, and Prof. Robert
Serpell.
I. Targeted Speakers and Proposed Topics (Immediate feedback will be appreciated)
1. Chairman, National AIDS Commission, Cameroon: The current state of work on
HIV/AIDS with Cameroonian youth
2. Peer Educators and Youth Living with HIV/AIDS: Youth voices: What youth feel
and want to know/hear/see done about HIV/AIDS
3. Rainer Silbereisen & Verona Christmas-Best – Youth development: Framing
questions and issues for African youth in Crisis with HIV/AIDS.
4. Tuntufye Mwamwenda – HIV/AIDS theorization in the context of (South) Africa’s
youth: A critique and a proposal for a more appropriate sense of direction.
5. Elias Mpofu – Theory-based HIV/AIDS research: From HIV/AIDS research with
Zimbabwean youth to intervention programs.
6. Robert Serpell and UNZA Researchers – HIV/AIDS researchers and communitybased service providers: Bridging the gap between the research, policy and practice
arenas in Zambia.
7. Bame Nsamenang & Therese Tchombe – Trends, issues and lessons from
community-based HIV/AIDS initiatives in Cameroon
8. UNICEF Cameroon – Life skills education and risk behavior mapping with young
people: Lessons from Cameroon.
9. Kathryn Toure et al. (ROCARE, Bamako) – Jeunesse, Sexualite et SIDA en
Afrique
10. Peter Baguma – AIDS education and prevention with youth: Success factors in the
Ugandan experience.
11. Cheryl Grills – Empowerment evaluation: Lessons from HIV/AIDS interventions in
West Africa and the US.
II. Symposia
1. Peer Education and other HIV/AIDS Youth Intervention Curricula. (Lead Person:
Prof Ivo Tambo Leke on Curricular Principles and Strategies for HIV/AIDS
Education with youth)
2. The Changing Face of HIV Prevention: Emerging Areas of Research and Intervention
(Lead Persons: Professor. Victor Anomah Ngu, Prof. Peter Ndoumbe and Dr.
Julius Oben (on recent Research on the advances in HIV vaccine and AIDS control
strategies ).
3. SIDA/IST et la Sexualite des Adolescents en Afrique
4. Adolescent Sexuality: Strategies for Reproductive Health in Africa
III. Workshops
1.
2.
3.
4.
Participatory Strategies in HIV/AIDS Research and Intervention with Youth
AIDS Stigma Manifestations: Sharing Experiences and Interventions
Culture, Youth and HIV/AIDS: Reflections on Interventions in Rural Communities
Cultures, SIDA et le Developpement de L’Adolescent en Afrique: Perspectives
francophones.
IV. Roundtables
1. Indigenous Approaches to HIV/AIDS Interventions (Lead Person: National President
of the Cameroon Association of Traditional Practitioners on Indigenous National and
African Strategies)
2. HIV/AIDS on University Campuses: The Role of Cameroon University Women
3. HIV/AIDS and the African Youth: Exemplars of and Issues in International
Collaboration (Lead Person: Dr Cosmas Cheka on GTZ Experiences in international
collaboration for AIDS intervention in Cameroon)
V. Posters
A poster session will be organized during the workshop. Young scholars and graduate
students are particularly encouraged to send in submissions.
VI. Special Events (to be organized and presented by)
- Africa Synergies-Cameroun
- IIEP/UNESCO HIV.AIDS Impact on Education Clearinghouse
- ADEA – Association pour le Developpement de l’Education en Afrique
- British Council
- American Cultural Centre
- BIE – Bureau International d’Education
- GTZ-Cameroon
- UNICEF-Cameroon
- Cameroon Indigenous Practitioners’ Association
- African Youth Association
- World Bank
- UNDP
Tentative Program: Sixth ISSBD Africa Regional Workshop, Yaoundé 2004
Time
8-10 am
Sunday
Monday
Arrival &
Symposium
Registration I
10:10:30
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10:30Arrival & Targeted
12:30
Registration Paper 1
Arrival & L
12:30Registration
1:30
1:30Arrival & Roundtable
3:30
Registration I
3:30B
4:00
4:00Opening
Targeted
6:30
Ceremony
Paper 2
6:30Welcome
Special
7:30
Reception
Event I
7:30SUPPER
8:30
Saturday
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Workshop
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Paper 11
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Paper 4
Roundtable
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Paper 6
Special
Event II
SUPPER
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Paper 8
Poster
Session I
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Free
Free
Free
Free
Social
Event
Targeted
Paper 10