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Brian O'Connell Visiting African Scholar Fund Will Introduce UWC Students to Black Scholars from Around the World
Brian O’Connell, former Vice Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Western Cape. Photo courtesy of UWC. The Atlantic Philanthropies and The Kresge Foundation announced today a joint investment of $500,000 (R5,726,102.50) to establish The Brian O’Connell Visiting African Scholar Fund, which will bring…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Tutu attends UWC School of Health opening
University of the Western Cape is an Atlantic grantee. By Sonya Bell Nobel peace laureate and retired archbishop Desmond Tutu opened the curtain – three times – for a crowd gathered at the launch of the University of the Western Cape‘s new School of Public…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)
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Massive Grants to Transform Nursing Education in South Africa
New Programme Will Improve Nursing Education, Increase Ranks of University Educated Nurses and Benefit All South Africans Cape Town, 11 December 2008 – Nursing education in South Africa will be boosted by an unprecedented injection of R70-million over four years from The Atlantic Philanthropies, an…
Author: Inyathelo The South African Institute for Advancement
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S. Africa Embraces Study Critical of Health Policy
Original Source Several organisations involved in this report are Atlantic grantees: Save the Children, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Pretoria, and University of the Western Cape. Funding for this publication was provided by Saving Newborn Lives/Save the…
Author: The New York Times
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As 2009 Nears, Stresses Vie with Opportunities for Atlantic and its Grantees
As 2008 draws to a close, organisations, just like individuals, should take a moment to reflect on the challenges and accomplishments of the year that is ending, and prepare for the one ahead. I’d like to do that, in this final column of an eventful…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Lancet: Leadership needed to fight SA violence
Original Source Save the Children, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Pretoria, and University of the Western Cape are Atlantic grantees. Funding for this publication was provided by Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children USA through a grant from…
Author: Mail & Guardian Online
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New building boost for African research
By Caitlin Ross. A state-of-the-art Life Sciences building – the best of its kind on the continent – was officially opened on Tuesday at the University of the Western Cape. Speaking at the opening ceremony, attended by an illustrious guest list including figureheads in education…
Author: West Cape News
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Nursing gets shot in the arm
Original Source Click here to listen to the interview. Summit TV speaks to Dr Victoria Pinkney-Atkinson about the award of millions of dollars by The Atlantic Philanthropies into South African nursing educational institutions that may change the face of nursing as we know it. Jane…
Author: Business Day (South Africa)
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Nursing education in South Africa receives an R70m boost
Original Source Four universities will divide among them a sum of R70m, donated to help improve nursing education in the country over the next four years, the Inyathelo organisation announced on Thursday. The grants, courtesy of The Atlantic Philanthropies, an international philanthropic organisation, are aimed…
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Study refutes claims patients stopping ARVs for grant money
Treatment Action Campaign is an Atlantic grantee. by JENNY GROSS ALTHOUGH there have been reports of Aids patients refusing life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to lower their blood counts enough to qualify for social grants, a three-year study in Khayelitsha found no evidence that people give…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)
