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IRIN is looking for an editor to expand and enhance its current coverage of HIV/AIDS issues for sub-Saharan Africa. The successful candidate will be charged with expanding IRIN's PlusNews HIV/AIDS service by increasing the news flow from West and Central Africa, using both personal contacts and IRIN's extensive stringer network in the two regions. S/he will be expected to write and edit well-researched and sensitively written stories about HIV/AIDS in both English and French. S/he will also supervise the work of a newly created translation unit charged with producing a French language online news service about HIV/AIDS in Africa. S/he will liase closely with the existing PlusNews editorial unit in Johannesburg, South Africa, and IRIN's West Africa bureau. S/he will be expected to travel occasionally within Africa to report directly on HIV/AIDS issues in individual countries and to attend conferences on efforts to control the pandemic and improve the lives of people living with AIDS.

The deadline for applying is 5 December 2003.

Apply to: Robert Powell, Managing Editor IRIN West Africa e-mail: (cc application to [email protected])

The job description was posted to the ReliefWeb vacancies page on 26 November 2003 (www.reliefweb.int). Copies can also be obtained by sending a request to Joanne Clark – .