Will provide technical assistance to the Relief Program Director in the design, funding, implementation, evaluation, and reporting for all relief and rehabilitation programs in the country of assignment, in collaboration with Relief and Rehabilitation specialist staff.

The overall responsibilities will be to provide efficient and effective leadership in the development, co-ordination and control of CAFS activities to meet its obligations as negotiated between donor agencies, regional governments and other stakeholders.

NANGO is organising an NGO Expo to be held in October 2002. The theme of the Expo is “Towards a Better Understanding of the Work of NGOs in Zimbabwe”. NANGO believes that it is important for NGOs to come out in the open and allow the general public, government, private sector and the international community to see for themselves what NGOs are doing, capable of doing and who they represent.

The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and Bioethics Institute, in collaboration with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Clinical Bioethics, are pleased to announce the availability of a one year training program in research ethics for scientists from sub-Saharan Africa.

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There is tentative evidence that the high-risk sexual behaviour of teenagers, which has been driving SA's high rate of HIV infection, is changing as a result of awareness campaigns, LoveLife CEO David Harrison says.

The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare says the measles immunisation and Vitamin A supplementation exercise conducted in the first two weeks of July did not reach the intended target of 2 million children under the age of five.

Christopher is a 13-year-old boy who lives a few miles from the village of Kassana, one hour from Kampala, the capital of Uganda. After losing his mother to AIDS this past December, Christopher is one of the estimated 1.7 million children orphaned by the epidemic in this country.

Lerato Nkosi, 11, is desperate to go to school. At any opportunity she gets to dodge her mother's protective gaze the lanky girl joins her boisterous peers on their walk to Vulamasango Primary School in KaNyamazane, Mpumalanga. Nkosi is learning disabled and like 82% of mentally or physically disabled children in Mpumalanga is denied an education because of teacher's indifference or lack of facilities at government schools.

High adult mortality has resulted in the delay of the enrolement of children in primary school in parts of Tanzania, a new study has found.

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