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The Columbia University-Southern Africa AIDS & TB International Training and Research Programme is funded by the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA. This programme, now in its thirteenth year of existence, offers a unique, prestigious and challenging training opportunity to promising researchers early in their careers, in the fields of basic science, epidemiology, social science and bioethics related to HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis. Only citizens of South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland are eligible.

The Centre for the Study of AIDS (CSA), based at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, invites civil society organisations working on HIV/ AIDS to join as partners in a collaborative research network, supported by the Open Society Initiative Southern Africa (OSISA).

The Giving Exchange expos are meeting places where SA NPOs & CBOs, concerned individuals and businesses can engage with each other to explore new, relevant and effective giving solutions that advance development work in the country.

In November 2003, the South African Cabinet approved The Operational Plan for Comprehensive HIV and AIDS Care, Management and Treatment for South Africa.

The International Treatment Activists Coalition (CIAT), with the support of the TIDES Foundation, invites organizations working in the field of HIV/AIDS to submit funding proposals for projects relating to education on quality treatments, citizen participation and awareness, advocacy and political incidence.

Applications are being sought for the establishment of the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IEDEA) consortium, a collaborative group of international regional data centers, for the compilation of data to address research questions in HIV/AIDS that are not possible to answer with currently existing individual cohorts, one of which will serve as the coordinating center; development of regional, generalizable datasets that represent study populations based on data from different settings and populations; and development of procedures and approaches to allow regions to more accurately address and monitor the HIV epidemic within their populations.

The Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) is offering a limited number of research grants to graduates in the Social and Behavioural Sciences in 2005. These positions have been made possible by a grant from the National Institutes for Health (NIH), USA.

SANGONeT's Thusanang portal is currently profiling fundraising research in an attempt to increase an awareness in the non-profit sector about trends in donor funding. Please visit the Thusanang portal at www.thusanang.org.za or www.funding.org.za for an interesting mix of research reports that cover a range of funding debates.

The Parktonian Hotel in Johannesburg buzzed with excitement and anticipation June 1-3 as the World Bank hosted its first regional development marketplace in southern Africa. The theme HIV/AIDS: Turning Ideas into Action galvanized some 300 organizations from Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland to submit proposals. An independent assessment panel comprised of civil society, academia, government and the private sector scrutinized the proposals in two separate rounds. A total of 38 proposals went into the final round and representatives of these organizations attended the event, along with others who participated in the Knowledge Exchange.

Pact's Community REACH team is pleased to announce the release of its fifth Request for Applications (RFA). Under this RFA, Pact anticipates awarding a total of $1.2 million to between five (5) and seven (7) cooperative agreements supporting positive prevention, care and support for People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs).