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Arusha, Tanzania: 10-14 December 2007
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Program Summary

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 10
8:30 AM - 12:45 PM

1   Opening Ceremony

MONDAY, DECEMBER 10
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM

2   Tanzanian Poster Session

MONDAY, DECEMBER 10
2:15 PM - 4:15 PM

3   Tanzanian Day

MONDAY, DECEMBER 10
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

4   Emerging issues in the Demography of East Africa
5   Round table: Ethics of collecting bio-markers in population and health research
6   Side meeting: Improving graduate level training in African universities
7   Side meeting: family planning in Africa
8   Side meeting: Heads of national population coordinating units
9   Side meeting: Abstaining from reality: USA restrictions
10   Side meeting: World Health Organization (WHO)

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM

11   Explaining contrasting national trends and progress in achieving MDG 4
12   Adolescents' sexual and reproductive health
13   Determinants of sub-national differences in HIV prevalence
14   Estimating the impact of HIV and AIDS: methodological approaches
15   Child protection and development
16   Achieving the MDG targets for water and sanitation
17   Side meeting: CEPED Presentation

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM

18   Community based approaches to improving child and maternal health
19   Explanations for stalled and persistently high fertility
20   Evaluations of interventions to improve schooling outcomes
21   Fostering and orphanhood in the era of HIV/AIDS
22   Adult mortality in Africa
23   Measuring the Wellbeing of Older People
24   Capacity builiding session on writing abstracts

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM

P-1   Poster Session 1

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11
2:15 PM - 4:15 PM

25   Population growth and poverty linkages in Africa
26   Measuring behaviour change related to HIV infection
27   Changes in age structure and their implications for wellbeing
28   Methodological issues in estimating maternal mortality
29   Changing household structures and socioeconomic roles
30   Gender-based violence: prevalence and consequences 2

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

31   UAPS Plenary Session: Constitution and New Strategic Plan

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM

32   Demographic determinants and consequences of HIV and AIDS
33   What are the social and economic returns of schooling in contemporary Africa?
34   International migration in Africa
35   Family and Child Health
36   Side meeting: realising rights
37   Gender, Sexuality, and Vunerability; Exploring Intersections in Human Populations
38   Side meeting: World Bank, South South presentations

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM

39   Lessons from integration of reproductive health, family planning, and HIV and AIDS programs
40   What is the impact of high fertility on family wellbeing?
41   Male sexual and reproductive health needs
42   Effects of HIV/AIDS on children
43   Gender based violence: prevalence and consequences
44   Households’ and communities’ coping mechanisms to multiple shocks
45   Methodological issues in measuring poverty and human welfare

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM

P-2   Poster Session 2

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12
2:15 PM - 4:15 PM

46   Reproductive health rights and choices
47   National HIV prevalence estimates: advantages and limitations of different estimation methods
48   Determinants of fertility change in Africa
49   Other Emerging Issues in Population in Eastern Africa
50   Cohabitation, marriage and remarriage patterns
51   Cohabitation,marriage and remmarriage patterns
52   Side meeting: Africa Development Bank

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

53   Side meeting: Dissemination of groundbreaking evidence on youth and HIV prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa. Protecting the next generation
54   Trends and Determinants of Child Health and Mortality in sub-Saharan Africa
55   Family Planning in Kenya
56   The Wellbeing of Older People: Measurement issues
57   Adolescent transitions to adulthood
58   HIV and AIDS and families 2
59   The changing role of women in African families

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM

60   Contraception method mix and dual protection
61   Consequences of rapid urbanization
62   Adolescent transitions and sexual behavior
63   Populations in conflict situations
64   Measuring the burden of disease
65   Gender inequities and inequalities
66   Side meeting: sharing experiences of the 4th African Population Conference

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM

67   Side meeting: UNFPA
68   Understanding health and population dynamics through longitudinal demographic surveillance systems
69   Consequences of African international migration
70   Knowledge and Attitudes towards HIV and HIV voluntary testing
71   Sex education: the intersection of traditional systems
72   Migration and Urbanization
73   UK Parliament report on population growth and the MDGs

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM

P-3   Poster Session 3

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13
2:15 PM - 4:15 PM

74   The future of family planning programmes in Africa
75   Urbanization and human welfare
76   Experiences and impacts of universal primary education policies on human development
77   Impact of HIV and AIDS on the wellbeing of older people
78   HIV and AIDS and families
79   Achieving MDG targets through addressing inequities

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

80   UAPS Annual General Meeting

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM

81   Population and evironmental change in Africa
82   Sexuality in the African context
83   Stalling fertility – a trans-national perspective
84   Consequences of internal migration
85   HIV and AIDS Impacts
86   Lessons in developing and utilizing civil registration systems in Africa
87   Capacity building: Getting published in peer-reviewed journals

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM

88   Inequalities in access to maternal health services
89   Reproductive health rights and choices 2
90   Lessons in measuring poverty and human wellbeing
91   Epidemiological transition: dual burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases
92   Determinants of Adult Mortality in Africa
93   Evidence of Malthusian pressures in subsistence farming population, water sources
94   Side meeting: UNICEF Side Meeting

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM

P-4   Poster Session 4

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14
2:15 PM - 4:15 PM

95   Debate on population growth in Africa. Organised by the IUSSP Panel on African Population Growth and Human Welfare
96   Influences on women's reproductive lives
97   Gender inequities and MDGs
98   Emerging and re-emerging diseases (e.g. malaria, tuberculosis etc)
99   Household and family influences on adolescent sexuality
100   Human capital needs for achieving MDGs in Africa
101   Side meeting: UNECA

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

102   Closing ceremony

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