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Accès Cinéma Africain

Jul 30, 2001

A French language immersion offered in Montreal in collaboration with Vues d'Afrique, the largest festival of Francophone African and Caribbean film and video in North America. April 18-22, 2002. Fee: $425.00, includes pass to festival, orientation, classes, and discussions with filmmakers; materials, lodging and some meals. For more information, contact Julia Schulz, 207-594-7688 or [email protected]

Conference on Vertical Transmission Begins in Ivory Coast

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Jul 30, 2001

A four-day conference addressing the issue of mother-to-child HIV transmission in Africa began yesterday in the Ivory Coast capital of Abidjan, Agence France-Presse reports. Simone Gbagbo, wife of Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, said that the conference will allow the eight participating countries to "share their experiences" on fighting HIV.

New Info Source for World Newspaper Industry

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Jul 30, 2001

As a service to the global newspaper industry, the World Association of Newspapers is providing extensive information from the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum in a special section on its web site. The information includes executive summaries of all presentations, selected speeches, photos, and other data about trends, management, advertising and revenue, content, design and many other subjects of pressing concern to the newspaper community.

Call for Action on Corruption

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Jul 30, 2001

The members of Uganda Debt Network write to express consternation and profound shock at the high levels of corruption in Uganda as reported by Transparency International. As members of the civil society, we are deeply concerned about the devastating impact of corruption on the economic and political development of this country. The results of TI's survey indicate clearly that government institutions charged with fighting corruption are too weak and too overstretched to do their job effective...read more

Hopkins Report: New Informed Choice Strategy for Developing Countries

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Jul 30, 2001

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health are calling for a new, broader strategy to help people make well-informed choices about family planning and protection against HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The new strategy urges efforts in five areas: government policies, communication programs, access to contraception, family planning program leadership and management, and counseling.

call to ban internet censorship in SA

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Jul 30, 2001

A call to oppose the new draft Interception and Monitoring bill, brought before the South African Parliament last week, has come from anti-censorship organisations.

SYMPOSIUM ON DISTANCE LEARNING

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Jul 23, 2001

This was listed in kfn 24, but now they have a web site. The Saturday after the 17th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning (august 11th, 2001) there will be a symposium on Strategies for International Humanitarian Organizations.

SA: Programme Manager Sought

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Jul 23, 2001

The Youth Development Network (YDN) is a national network of seven youth development NGO’s. It is committed to building the capacity of it’s member organisations and the youth sector and to raise the quality and standard of youth development programmes. Closing Date 31 July 2001

Zimbabwe: Pact seeks Chief Of Party For A Program Of Orphans Care & Support

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Jul 23, 2001

Manage a program to advance the learning and practice of community-based support and care of children affected by HIV/AIDS and oversee the development of relationships with stakeholders.

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