Hello again.. and, sorry for the delay in sending you this latest update.. a "new and improved" version of the software I use to send and manage our listserv was offered to me "free of charge". After I loaded it up, I couldn't get it to work -- and, yes, I had already deleted the old one.
Finally, I got the company to send me a copy of the old one. I think they are blaming me for loading it on to my computer incorrectly. Unfortunately, I think they might be right. Nevertheless, I've got the old version going again... First of all, I would like to welcome six new listserv members including Justin Alamu, a CEO of a media organisation in Lagos Nigeria, Lesego Mohutsiwa, a senior broadcasting assistant with Radio Botswana, who has been in the radio business for eight years and currently works on a current affairs programme, and Ngehndab Gwanvalla, a radio journalist at Cameroon Radio and Television.
Also joining is Fiji Daily Post business editor, Timoci Vula, who added that she would like to improve her health reporting skills on issues such as HIV/AIDS. She also plans to advocate for the improvement in health policy and practice in her country.
I was also pleased to see that a representative from the Washington based, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, has signed up. Sahar Neyazi, is a communications coordinator who is also in charge on online activities at the Foundation. Most listserv members should be able to benefit, in one way or another, from this foundation. Visit: www.kff.org and don't forget to click on their Global Health Reporting website. A link with more information on this site is provided below along with a short biog of Henry J. Kaiser. Also signing up is Ugandan born, Lucky Lukiah Mulumba, a registered nurse now working on her masters degree in the US. She wrote us an email after reading the article on Sickle Cell Anaemia ("Uganda's Forgotten Disease") sent in to the Health and Media website by Pius Sawa Murefu. Lucky says she would like to get in contact with anyone who is connected with the Children's hospital mentioned in the article in order to find out what she can do to assist. (article: www.healthandmedia.org/contribute.html) Finally, I would like to thank Bangladesh journalist, Rafiqul Islam Azad, for contributing his article on Reproductive Health Care to the Health and Media website (link below)... and thanks to all of you who have sent in your comments, suggestions, notices, and contributions.
Colin Lloyd Health and Media Listserv South Africa | 
Siphiwe Shongwe, formerly with the World Health Organisation in Swaziland, now studying in the UK