INSTITUTE FOR THE AFRICAN CHILD
CALL FOR PAPERS

HIV/AIDS and the African Child:
Health Challenges, Educational Possibilities

April 11-13, 2002
Athens, Ohio USA

The Institute for the African Child at Ohio University announces its fourth
annual conference, HIV/AIDS and the African Child: Health Challenges,
Educational Possibilities, to be held in Athens, Ohio from 11-13 April
2002. Paper and panel presentations are sought that address this complex
health and social issue from all academic and practitioner perspectives.

The Institute for the African Child was founded in 1998 to promote
collaboration between Ohio University's Colleges of Arts and Sciences,
Communication, Education, Health and Human Services and Osteopathic
Medicine on every dimension of children and child survival across Africa.
Previous conferences have focused on the African girl child, child
soldiers, and on setting an agenda for the Institute. The Institute
sponsors a series of courses during the Summer Quarter, attracting graduate
students and professionals from all over Africa.

Scholars and practitioners from every discipline are encouraged to
participate in the conference with papers and/or media presentations
related to its broad theme, stressing descriptive, analytical and
prescriptive approaches to the issues of HIV/AIDS and the Africa's
children. Children and their families, communities and the state, are all
possible foci of presentations as well in that the Institute for the
African Child fosters interdisciplinary research. 'HIV/AIDS Awareness in
the Secondary Curriculum and Teacher Preparation,' 'Medical Intervention
with Children with AIDS in Rural Areas,' 'AIDS and Refugee Populations,'
'School Teachers and HIV/AIDS' would be a few examples of paper topics. We
hope to have as many regions of the continent as possible represented in
the presentations.

Send a one-page abstract by January 15, 2002 to Mr. Abdul Lamin, Conference
Coordinator, Institute for the African Child, Burson House, Ohio
University, Athens, OH 45701 USA or by email to [email protected].
Registration materials for the conference are available by mail and online
at www.ohiou.edu/Toguna. Dr. Diane Ciekawy in the Department of Sociology
and Anthropology at Ohio University is the Conference Convener.

In cooperation with the Institute for the African Child, Ohio University
Press will publish a volume related to this conference, edited by Arvind
Singhal and Stephen Howard. Prospective publication date is World AIDS Day,
2003. See accompanying call for papers for the book for further information.