Confidential: one of the country's most impressive campaigns to improve health in Africa has already begun and involves a professional team recently recruited by Howard University to implement President George W. Bush's five-year, $15 billion Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

Jet, April 12, 2004 by Simeon Booker

Confidential: One of the country's most impressive campaigns to improve health in Africa has already begun and involves a professional team recently recruited by Howard University to implement President George W. Bush's five-year, $15 billion Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The high-level delegation now working in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana includes Ambassadors Ruth A.

Davis, first Black woman director general of the Foreign Service, and Horace Dawson, former envoy to Botswana and now a Howard University staffer Others are Dr. Jean Bailey, Dr. Mohammed Akhier, and Dr. Cudore Snell. Meanwhile, the president has nominated Constance New man, now an assistant administrator at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as the next assistant secretary of state for Africa.