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CONTENTS
Volume 15 No. 2 July 2002 (Supplement)
PLENARY LECTURES
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Advisory and Scientific Committee (ASC):
Demetre Labadarios (Conference Chair, South Africa), Hanifa Bachou (Conference Vice-chair, Uganda),
Leif Hambraeus (Sweden), Gibriel Ahmed (Egypt), Thorkild Tylleskar (Norway), Delana Adelekan (Nigeria),
Chrisse Chawanje (Malawi), Moussa Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso) and Christopher Msoma (Tanzania).
Local Organising Committee (LOC) Kenya:
Judith Waudo (Chair, Kenya), Stellamaris Muthoka (Kenya), Wambui Kogi-Makau (Kenya), Prisca Tuitoek
(Kenya), Thereza Muthui (Kenya) and Richard K'Okul (Kenya).
Fund Raising Committee (FRC):
Wambui Kogi-Makau (Chair, Kenya), Britta Ogle (Sweden), Jerida Nyatsanza (Zimbabwe), Fatima Quattara
(Mali), Linley Chiwona-Karltun (Sweden), Thabisile Hlatshwayo-Molea (South Africa), Sobhy Mohsen
(Egypt) and Ruth K Oniang'o (Kenya).
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up to and including 15 June 2002; abstracts submitted after
that date have not been included in the proceedings.
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