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We are pleased to announce that Dr Geoff Foster, a Paediatrician in Zimbabwe, was selected from a number of other highly regarded and most worthy nominations to be the winner of the 2008 Dignity and Right to Health Award.
A paediatrician in Zimbabwe, Geoff recognised in 1987 that HIV was a devastating and exploding epidemic when he saw, within a few weeks, many infants dying of AIDS at the Mutare government hospital . He began a crusade which continues through today to alert the world through publications, speaking, and demonstrating personal concern as a practicing paediatrician in Zimbabwe.
The Dignity and Right to Health Award is made annually to persons for excellence, outstanding leadership and compassion in responding to the HIV/AIDS epidemic by the HIV Initiative of the International Christian Medical & Dental Association.
Full details of Dr Foster and the other nominees and their work can be accessed on-line at http:
Steven Fouch (CMF Head of Communications) 020 7234 9668
Alistair Thompson on 07970 162 225
Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) was founded in 1949 and is an interdenominational organisation with over 5,000 doctors, 900medical and nursing students and 300 nurses and midwives as members in all branches of medicine, nursing and midwifery. A registered charity, it is linked to over 100 similar bodies in other countries throughout the world.
CMF exists to unite Christian healthcare professionals to pursue the highest ethical standards in Christian and professional life and to increase faith in Christ and acceptance of his ethical teaching.
