The 2013 APCA Palliative Care Journalist Award for Africa are run in partnership with the Open Society Foundations and are open to print, broadcast and online journalists who have reported on palliative care issues in 2012/13.
Six regional prizes will be awarded for journalists from Africa, Asia, Middle East/North Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe/ Central Asia and Germany.
Journalists from the United States, Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa can win international reporting trips worth up to $10,000 for submitting the best stories on infectious diseases.
It's 10 days to go before the closing date for entries for the SADC Media Awards for South Africa. The South African media is encouraged to submit their entries before the deadline of 30 April 2013. This is to allow for South Africa to take part in the Awards that were officially launched by the Deputy Minister of Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation last month.