The African Dreams essay competition was launched jointly by People's Health Movement Africa (PHM-Africa) and Italian NGO AIFO and carries a cash prize of 500 Euros each to the three best entries. Since lots of people have written to say that they have found out about the competition very late, it has been decided to extend the last date for entries to this competition to 15 January 2005 to allow wider participation. Full details about participating in the competition are available at http://www.aifo.it/english/resources/announcements.htm