Africa Agenda

16-21 January 2004, Mumbai ( India ) — World Social Forum. Website <www.wsfindia.org>.

21-24 January 2004, Florence ( Italy ) — Securing Treatment and Care for People Living with HIV. Website <http://www.promoleader.com/hiv_international_meeting/>.

21-25 January 2004, Davos ( Switzerland ) — World Economic Forum, under the theme “Partnering for Security and Prosperity.” E-mail <annualmeeting@weforum.org>.

4-7 February 2004, New Delhi ( India ) — Sustainable Development Summit 2004: Partnerships for Sustainable Development. Tel (91-11) 2468-2138, fax (91-11) 2468-2144, e-mail <dsds@teri.res.in>, website <http://www.teriin.org/dsds>.

18-20 February 2004, Vienna ( Austria ) — Global Forum on Sustainable Energy. Tel (1-212) 963-6890, fax (1-212) 963-7904, e-mail <freudenschuss-reichl@un.org>.

18-20 February 2004, Atlanta, Georgia ( USA ) — Globalization and Human Rights in Africa at the University of Georgia Center for Humanities. E-mail <aadinar@sas.upenn.edu>.

23-24 February 2004, London ( United Kingdom ) — Sustainable Development in the WTO. Tel (44-20) 7957 5710, fax (44-20) 7321 2045, e-mail <conferences@riia.org>, website <www.riia.org>.

27-28 February 2004, Atlanta, Georgia ( USA ) — International Conference on Women and Infectious Diseases, on the theme “from science to action.” Website <http://www.womenshealthconf.org>.

4-6 March 2004, Rome ( Italy ) — International Forum on Partnerships for Sustainable Development. Contact Gloria Visconti, tel (39-06) 5722-8121, fax (39-06) 5722-8180, e-mail <Visconti.Gloria@minambiente.it>.

21-25 March 2004, Gaborone ( Botswana ) — CIVICUS World Assembly 2004. A venue for civil society and other stakeholders to exchange information. Contact David Kalete, e-mail <worldassembly@civicus.org>, website <http://www.civicus.org>.

29-30 March 2004, Manchester ( United Kingdom ) — International Sustainable Development Research Conference. Website <www.erpenvironment.org>.

14-18 April 2004, Madison, Wisconsin ( USA ) — African Literature Association 30th Anniversary conference. Tel (1-608) 262-4460, e-mail <asongolo@wisc.edu>, <tolaniyan@wisc.edu>.

26-30 April 2004, Marrakech ( Morocco ) — UNCTAD 8th Africa Oil and Gas, Trade and Finance Conference. Tel (41-22) 917-5770/5755, fax (41-22) 917-0509, e-mail <Lamon.Rutten@unctad.org>.

3-5 June 2004, Toulon ( France ) — 13th International Symposium on HIV & Emerging Diseases. Website <www.avps.org/2003/hiv.htm> .

11-16 July 2004, Bangkok ( Thailand ) — XV International AIDS Conference. Website <www.ias.se/aids2004/>.

WHAT HAS TAKEN PLACE

1-3 December 2003, Nairobi ( Kenya ) — Workshop on Engendering PRSPs in Africa, organized by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the German Technical Cooperation. Website <www.gtz.de/gender-prsp>.

1-5 December 2003, Nairobi ( Kenya ) — DevMedicine 1st annual scientific conference on making information technologies available to medical professionals in developing countries. Tel (1-978) 476-9368, fax (1-978) 521-7251, e-mail <dmasc@devmedicine.com>.

8-13 December 2003, Addis Ababa ( Ethiopia ) — First Pan-African Implementation and Partnership Conference on Water, under the aegis of the African Ministers' Council on Water. Tel (251-1) 443-422, fax (251-1) 510-350, e-mail <sdonkor@uneca.org> website <www.uneca.org/panafcon/>.

15-16 December 2003, Algiers ( Algeria ) — Partners' Conference on the Action Plan of the Environment Initiative of NEPAD. Website <www.touchtech.biz/nepad/files/en.html>.