Courses in maternal, neonatal and child health in Africa will be delivered twice in 2013 to a total target of 30 participants. Countries eligible for these short course awards in 2013 are expected to be Ethiopia, Kenya South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda.

Prof Sheryl Hendriks is the Director of the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Well-being at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She writes as follows.

Laurent de Potter, executive secretary of PACODEL and head of International Relations at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech at the University of Liège in Belgium, has written as follows.