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1.Event
Title: 1st National Bar Hostess
conference on Hiv/AIDS in Kenya
2.Dates:
Thursday,10th - Friday,11th August 2006
3.Conference
Theme: Towards Empowering
Bar Hostesses to fight HIV/AIDS
4.Venue:
City Hall (Conference Hall), Nairobi Kenya
5.Conference
Organizers; Purple Images
Productions and Kenya Bar Hostess
Aids
Network
6.Conference
supported by; National Aids
Control Council, Kenya Aids
NGOs
Consortium
and legal Resources Foundation
7.Main Donor: Hivos
Netherlands
8.Special
features of the conference
i) Interactive
workshops
ii)
Launching of video documentary
on Bar Hostess and HIV / AIDS
iii) Beauty
and Fashion shows by Bar Hostesses
iv) Exhibitions
v) Theatre
and dances by Bar Hostesses
vi) Awards
cocktail for outstanding Bar
Hostesses
vii)
Launch of National Bar Hostesses
Rights Network
viii)
Launch of Miss Hostess Kenya.
9.Conference
Brief:
In
Kenya today they are currently
over 40,000 bars employing an
average of 4 bar hostesses.
This makes a total of over 160,000
bar hostesses countrywide. A
simple survey conducted in Nairobi
by Kenya Bar Hostesses Aids
Programme in 2003 showed that
about 90 % of the Bar Hostesses
are sexually active with multiple
sexual partners. The rate of
infection and exposure to sexually
transmitted infections including
HIV/AIDS is therefore higher
than the national average.
The
Kenya Bar Hostess Aids Programme
and Purple Images Production
consider this a big risk to
the bar hostesses and believe
that the only way to combat
this is through targeted behaiour
change communication and economic
empowerment to reduce the need
for commercial sex. The objective
of the conference is to promote
behaviour change communication
through personal skills building
as well as strengthening of
individual and group capacities
to improve collaboration and
networking to identify alternatives
to reduce the incidence and
impact of HIV/AIDS among bar
hostesses.
The
cost of conference has been
reduced to kshs 3,000
($100 for International Delegates)
per person and this will cater
for meals, handouts and conference
stationery.The amount is payable
at or before the conference.
However delegates will be required
to cater for their transport
and accomodation costs if any.
No charges for Bar Hostesses
delegates. Exhibition booths
are available at ($200) or Kshs
15,000.
10.
Conference Presentation Topics:
-
Stigma and Discrimination
- Bar Hostesses and
Sexual Violence
- Women's
rights
- Violence against
women
- Anti-Retroviral
Therapy (ART)
- Home
Based Care Services; successes
and challenges
- Reproductive
Health and Reproductive Health
rights
- Women's health
and safe motherhood
- Mother
to child transmission of HIV
- Drug Abuse and Bar
Hostesses
- HIV/AIDS
and Human Rights
- Psycho
- social support in HIV/AIDS
management
- Care
for the orphans and widows
-
Behaviour change communication
- The social economic
impact of AIDS among bar hostesses
-
Commercial Sex and HIV
infection
- Care and
support for people with HIV
-
Income generation projects
as an alternative to commercial
sex
- The role of peer
education among Bar Hostesses
-
HIV/AIDS management in
the workplace
For a Draft
Conference Programme
please click
here..
All
correspondence should be emailed
to the attention of:
Ms.
Sheila Waweru
The conference
Coordinator
1 st National
Bar Hostess Conference on HIV/AIDS
Secretariat
Madonna House,
2nd Flr, Office 1P, Westlands,
Nairobi, Kenya
P.O BOX 58182
- 00200 Nairobi
Telephone:
254-20-4452674/4450937
Cell:
0721 675371/ 0722 789627
Email:
purplemedia2000@yahoo.com
or info@purpleimagesproductions.com
Please
note: Conference Delegates will
be shortlisted on a first-come
first-served basis.
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