Apply For MembershipAccording to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 35.3 Million people were living with HIV/AIDS worldwide in 2012 while 1.6 million died of AIDS-related illnesses worldwide at the same period. The report further reveals that Sub-Saharan Africa remains most severely affected, with nearly 1 in every 20 adults living with HIV and accounting for 71%...
Mainstreaming Gender and Socio-cultural Inclusion in Global Change: Calling for experts based in South Africa in the fields of Gender and/or Socio-cultural and/or Global Change
With the aim of identifying innovative approaches to mainstreaming gender and socio-cultural inclusion within global change research, this project aims to bring together academics from different disciplines, primarily those who have expertise in gender theories and methodologies, socio-cultural epistemologies, and those with technical and scientific academic expertise in global change. The motivation of this...
Africa Institute of South Africa moves to new home at the HSRC
MEDIA STATEMENT 3 June 2014 - The Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA) has now been physically incorporated into the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) as well, as AISA staff moved to their new offices on Monday 2 June 2014, at the HSRC building in Pretoria. AISA will now function as a strategic research...
SA Minister calls on religious leaders to speak up for abducted girls
Pretoria – Minister for Women, Children and People with Disabilities, Lulu Xingwana has called on all religious groups to join the call for the release of 276 Nigerian girls, who were abducted by terrorist group Boko Haram. “They claim to commit all these atrocities in the name of religion. Let religions all over the...
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