angola: country fifth in child death stakes

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Jan 09, 2003

Angola has the world's fifth highest child death rate in the world, with 118 deaths out of every 1 000 babies born, a 2002 report from the United Nations, released last Friday in Luanda, says.

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zambia: Zambia is in Danger of Not Meeting MDG's

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Jan 09, 2003

Unless Zambia redoubles its efforts in 2003, it is in danger of missing Millennium Development Goal targets set in education and health care, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) country representative Dr. Stella Goings has warned.

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HELINA 2003 Conference

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Jan 09, 2003

The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) will convene the fourth HELINA conference in South Africa from 13 to 15 October 2003, focused on communication and information technologies (ICT) in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa. The International Medical Informatics Association and the South African Health Informatics Association will organise the conference, in partnership with Harvard Medical International (HMI) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in the United States,...read more

Networking Africa's Future: Lessons of empowerment from communities

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Jan 09, 2003

The conference promises to close the loop between research and practice, revealing what has actually been achieved in Africa using information and communication technologies (ICTs) for development. It will focus on key emerging themes such as alleviating poverty through ICTs, schoolnets, telecentres, policy issues and innovation. Entitled "Networking Africa's Future", the event will be held in rural South Africa  at the Kwa Maritane game lodge, and will feature a state-of-the-art Internet s...read more

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON: MA in Human Rights 2003-4

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Jan 09, 2003

This one year full-time (or two years part-time) Programme in Understanding & Securing Human Rights is open to graduates of any discipline who seek training in human rights. This inter-disciplinary course, which has now been running for almost a decade, is based in Central London & consists of three written papers and a dissertation. Speakers come from international agencies & the academic community.

MOZAMBIQUE: UNICEF to lauch supplementary feeding scheme

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Jan 09, 2003

The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) is preparing to launch a blanket supplementary feeding programme this month in seven provinces in Mozambique, in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP) and development NGOs. The beneficiaries are an estimated 141,000 children aged six to 59 months and 71,000 pregnant and lactating women in 22 of the country's poorest food deficit districts, UNICEF said in a report released on Monday.

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ZAMBIA: Falling life expectancy

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Jan 09, 2003

Life expectancy among Zambian adults is falling, according to the findings of two new databases, raising concerns over the impact of HIV/AIDS. The recently published Demographic Health Survey and the 2000 Census of Population and Housing have revealed a "significant deterioration in adult survivorship", the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in a report.

Zambia

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: teaching teachers from a distance

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Jan 09, 2003

There should be greater teacher education and development in Sub-Saharan Africa, with distance education a possible solution to the recruiting and retaining of teachers, says a paper from the International Extension College (IEC). Distance education, argues the paper, remains on the sidelines and governments should embrace new, computer based forms of teacher training and development.

South Africa: Chest counts pennies in funding drive

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Dec 19, 2002

The Community Chest street collection here raised R3831, which executive director Joss Hamilton says compares poorly with the more than R1 100 brought in by King William's Town and Queenstown. Hamilton said support for the Christmas raffle was better.

South Africa

kenya: What's keeping Kenyan children from school?

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Dec 19, 2002

Attainment of Universal Primary Education has been a long-term objective for the Government of Kenya (GoK) since independence. But declining gross enrolment rates and completion rates of less than 50 per cent over the past 10 years present a considerable challenge to policy-makers. Why are children dropping out of school? Is poverty solely to blame?

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