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Joshua Busby joined the faculty at the LBJ School, University of Texas, Austin in fall 2006 as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer. He previously was a fellow at the Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School, Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and the Brookings Institution. In addition to articles on debt relief, climate change, and HIV/AIDS, he is currently working on a book manuscript entitled States of Grace: Moral Movements and Foreign Policy.
Ben Bellows is a doctoral epidemiology student with the Bixby Program at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. His interests include private sector strategies for public health in low-income countries, organizational effectiveness in responding to HIV/AIDS and reproductive health service delivery in East Africa.
Nathan A. Paxton is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Harvard University. His academic interests include HIV policy response formation, models of organizational and social learning and information processing, the history of international relations in political theory, and the foreign policy philosophy of Reinhold Niebuhr.
I look forward to the release of Josh’s book. I would think that with his background and knowledge it should raise some eyebrows, to say the least!
Hi,
I’m writing to you from the Campaign for Female Education (Camfed), an organization that works to end poverty and AIDS in Africa by educating girls and investing in economic and leadership opportunities for them when they graduate.
On World AIDS Day, December 1st 2009, Camfed will launch a global campaign to raise awareness about the link between poverty, educational exclusion and AIDS by uniting thousands of people around the world through screenings of its documentary, Where the Water Meets the Sky.
Written by Jordan Roberts (March of the Penguins) and narrated by Academy Award(r)-winner, Morgan Freeman, the film tells the inspirational story of a group of women in rural Africa who use the power of film as a way to speak out about their lives. The documentary features Penelope, a young woman who has overcome tremendous adversity in her young life and who shares her story on camera. Penelope has since received the Goldman Sachs-Fortune Global Women Leaders award, which recognizes women who are making great strides in improving their community. She is a magnificent example to every community, in every country, of what an educated young woman of courage can achieve.
On December 1st, 2009 at 7:30 PM EST, we are hosting a panel discussion that will follow the premier of Where the Water Meets the Sky, which is airing on the Sundance channel. We would be thrilled if your blog would participate in this dynamic, interactive conversation. Log on to FORA.tv on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2009 at 7:30 PM EST. Please contact me for more information about the initiative and what you can do to help.
Warm regards,
Janet Shah
Camfed Film
M: (650)862-2756
E: janet_shah@yahoo.com
http://www.watermeetssky.com
http://www.camfed.org
Abstinence does not work to protect people from HIV and aids. Hopefully efforts to block access to proper sex education will be thwarted and people will learn how to avoid exposure in ways other than simply abstinence. I wish you well.