Manual
[STANDING COMMITTEE ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INCLUDING AIDS]
The structure of SCORA The SCORA Director is elected once a year in August by the National Member Organizations (NMOs) of the IFMSA during the General Assembly. The SCORA director coordinates the work done by National Officers; keeps an overview of the ongoing activities worldwide and offers support wherever needed. The SCORA-D supports local, national and international projects and promotes those to members and externals. The SCORA-D provides members with information, tools and resources to ensure the aims of SCORA: to raise awareness amongst the wide public, to spread knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STI’s) and to decrease stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS as well as assure that the right messages are disseminated in the appropriate language. Not only giving out information but also collecting data to spread it within the groups as well as presenting it to partners is one of the tasks. Papers, leaflets and manuals need to be kept up to date and they need to be made accessible to members. Also the SCORA-D is responsible for planning, organizing and assuring that the SCORA meetings at the IFMSA General Assemblies in March and August go smoothly. The SCORA LO – the Liaison Officer for SCORA is responsible for external contacts. She or he represents SCORA to externals, like UNFPA, UNAIDS, and other UN Agencies and NGOs related to SCORA work. All external contacts should go through the LO. There are individual LO’s for the WHO and UNESCO within the IFMSA. The SCORA Regional Assistants(RAs) are helping the SCORA director to coordinate the work in the five regions within the IFMSA. They communicate specifically with the NORAs in the region and should attend the regional meetings to chair the SCORA sessions. They also should report back on regional activities to all SCORA members and represent their regions in a biannual GA brief. The SCORA Development Assistants (DAs)- implemented in SCORA structure in August 2008, the role of Development assistants is to assure that more SCORA people are involved in the international team in order to divide tasks and make sure positions are run by other members than the Director, the current positions are: * Training Assistant(TA) * Project Initiation and Development Assistant (PIDA) * New Technologies and Marketing Assistant (NTMA) * Publications Assistant (PA) In October 2010 there was a decision not to have DAs for the term 2010-2011. The NORA, the National Officer on Reproductive health including AIDS, is elected by his or her NMO. The task of a NORA is to coordinate and to encourage local or national activities in the respective country. The NORA is also responsible for communication with and reporting back to the SCORA Director and the Regional Assistant. NORAs are recommended to attend the IFMSA GA’s in March and August, representing International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations www.ifmsa.org
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