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Job: Progressio seeks Gender and HIV and AIDS Adviser, Malawi
Closing date: 09 September 2010
Progressio works to help people in developing countries gain power over their lives and overcome barriers that keep them poor.
Society for Women and AIDS in Malawi (SWAM) Based at SWAM’s Secretariat, in Lilongwe, Malawi. Two-year placement (with the possibility of renewal). The Gender and HIV and AIDS Adviser will work alongside the Secretariat of the Society for Women and AIDS in Malawi (SWAM), providing technical support to build the capacity of the partner organisation to effectively integrate a gender and rights-based approach into HIV and AIDS programming. This placement is part of a project on promoting Effective HIV Responses through Improved HIV and AIDS Advocacy and Management Capacity Development with Malawi Civil Society, which includes two other partners, and two other Progressio development workers. The project aims to contribute to HIV prevention, mitigating the impact of HIV, especially amongst women and girls, through the greater and positive involvement of women, men, girls and boys themselves, and religious and community leaders in dealing with stigma, denial, discrimination, inaction and mis-action, and also through advocacy for policy change and effective HIV and AIDS programming.
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