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[A Odutola <chpss_abo@yahoo.com>]

RFA: Freelance Health Correspondents & Content Providers
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Request for Application (RFA): Freelance Health Correspondents and 
Content Providers for Africa-regional Website

The Centre for Health Policy & Strategic Studies (CHPSS), Lagos, Ni-
geria is collaborating with a US-based company to develop and launch 
an Africa-regional health website/portal. The site is expected to 
launch on or before mid-year 2002.

The Mission of the website is to enhance human health in Africa by 
enhancing communication and bridging the health information gap be-
tween Africa and the rest of the world

The Goal is to be an authoritative provider of Africa-centred health 
information and communication services.

Applications are hereby invited from:
(a) Freelance Health Correspondents in each and every African country 
and 
(b) Established Content Providers, desirous of feeding the website on 
a daily basis with the following non-exclusive categories of publish-
able materials:
* General health news, reports and features
* Professionally-related health news, reports and features
* Health industry related news, reports and features
* Health business-related news reports and features
* Health jobs-related news, reports and features
* Health personality related news, reports and features
* Official statistical reports, etc.

The Health Correspondents need not be Journalists. Anyone with email 
access, a minimum of high school education and the skills for sourc-
ing and aggregating information from the public domain is welcome to 
apply. 

Entities applying as Content Providers preferably would be estab-
lished media or professional organizations, academic, non-profit or 
for-profit institutions with a track record of publishing in Africa.

Details of presentation format and other general terms and conditions 
of service would be communicated only to short-listed candidates.

To apply in either or both of the categories, please fill the form 
below as necessary and email it back to <chpss_abo@yahoo.com>

Appointments would be made on a continuing basis until all positions 
are filled in each African country.

Please feel free to circulate this invitation widely among your 
friends, contacts, associates and workers.

A. Odutola
Centre for Health Policy & Strategic Studies
34 Town Planning Way, Ilupeju
P.O. Box 7597, Ikeja
Lagos, Nigeria
mailto:chpss_abo@yahoo.com
http://www.expage.com/chpsshomepage


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Application for Freelance Health Correspondents and Website Content 
Providers

SECTION A: For Individual Health Correspondents 
Date:

1. First Name:
2. Middle Initial:
3. Surname:
4. Gender: Male    Female (delete as applicable)
5. Contact address:
6. City: 
7. Postcode or Box No.
8. State:
9. Province:  
10. Country:
11. Telephone:
12: Cellular:
13. Fax:
14. Email address:
15. Do you have easy email access? Yes   No (Delete as applicable)
16. Do you have full Internet access? Yes        No (Delete as applicable)
17. Personal Statement: Write a short personal statement of no more 
    than 150 words on ?Why I am suitable a s freelance health corre-
    spondent? 


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SECTION B: For Content Provider (Organisation/Institution) 
Date:

1. Name of organisation: 
2. Nature of business: 
3. Year established:  
4. Name and title of contact person: 
5. Contact address:  
6. City: 
7. Postcode or Box No. 
8. State:
9. Province:  
10. Country:
11. Telephone:  
12: Cellular:
13. Fax:
14. Email address:
15. Do you have easy email access? Yes   No (Delete as applicable)
16. Do you have full Internet access? Yes        No (Delete as applicable)
17. Corporate Statement: Write a short corporate statement of no more
    than 150 words on ?Why we are suitable to be a Website Content
    Provider? 

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