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| Awards for HIV/AIDS reporting
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| £2,500 for your winning film
| | | TB Tests Show Promise
| Avian flu "Supermap"
| | | Subsidized Malaria Drugs in Africa
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| Who says health reports can not excite readers, listeners, or viewers? This is the first paragraph of the featured article in July's edition of National Geographic magazine. A good example of a well-written, health feature. If you want to read the whole thing, just download this pdf file
Fame and fortune
Your picture may be on the front of our new (and improved) Health and Media website. I used some of our images from our in-country courses to decorate the home page: have a look:
www.healthandmedia.org
We need your input
Thanks to all of you who have been contributing to our new Health and Media blog site:
www.healthandmedia.blogspot.com
Colin Lloyd
Listserv moderator, editor
Cape Town, South Africa
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New listserv members
Ogova Ondego, Publisher, ArtMatters.Info, Nairobi, Kenya
I have been publisher of ArtMatters.Info, www.artmatters.info, since 2002. ArtMatters.Info covers creative and cultural issues in eastern and southern Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands.
Rebecca Birungi, Journalist, Mama Radio, Kampala, Uganda
I am currently working as a news reporter with Mama Radio, a women’s community radio station with a focus on promoting a greater understanding of health issues across Uganda, where I have worked as a volunteer since graduating from university five years ago. Although I report on a wide range of issues including politics and business the main focus of my journalistic activities is related to health issues, which I combine with my passion of radio.
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1. Your emails
Irene Sidonie Ndjabun, print journalist, La Nouvelle Expression, Cameroon
Just want to thank you for your messages, and will like to forwarded to you the URL of my blog where yu can find articles on :
Malaria drugs stolen in Central Hospital of the capital town, Yaoundé; How the case is been treated by the managing director of the hospital; Illicite drugs in central market in Yaoundé, and other articles on health or other issues (in French).
www.jumelles-blog.africaciel.com
Jean-Marc Jacobs, Médecins sans Frontières, Belgium
Médecins sans Frontières, South Africa, is looking for a talented communications officer to help raise awareness of the work of MSF with core target audiences via generating positive coverage in South African media, with the aim of supporting the recruitment of SA field staff, fundraising activities, and to increase awareness of MSF’s work with regard to international humanitarian and medical issues.
more details
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2. Blog contributions
Country's first HIV+ couple's son is HIV-
Md Saiful Islam Shameem, Senior Reporter, BSS news agency, Dhaka, Bangladesh
The son of Bangladesh's first known HIV positive couple has been tested for the HIV virus and found to be negative. The couple, who publically announced their positive status before getting married in an effort to encourage other couples to be more open with their HIV status.
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Facing the Challenges of HIV/AIDS
Kh. Zahir Hossain, M & E Specialist (BWSPP), The World Bank, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Around the world, more than 47 million people are now infected with the HIV/AIDS, It is now a weapon of mankind destruction. It has killed more than 30 million people worldwide according to UNAID and WHO reports since the 1st of December 1981 when it was first recognized....
Read in full
Hot debate on HIV trasmission at Uganda meeting
By Pius Sawa Murefu, Kampala, Uganda
...here he pauses and states, “You must know that HIV/AIDS is not a sexually transmitted infection”... read in full
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3. Health headlines
AIDS Spreading Faster Than Treatment
Access to drugs to fight HIV and AIDS in developing countries has improved recently, but new infections still vastly outpace treatment efforts, health officials said Monday.
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Condoms Used as Balloons in Madhya Pradesh
Many claims are made by the Governments, both at the Centre and the States about distribution of condoms in their campaign against the spread of HIV/AIDS, but the fact is that villagers are unaware how to use them.
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'Witches' Tortured over AIDS Deaths in Papua New Guinea
The way a woman walks can be a death sentence in Papua New Guinea, where the ancient world of witchcraft has collided brutally with the modern plague of AIDS.
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Candidates Urged to Elevate Development Issues in Foreign Policy
"Impact '08 aims to build the political will needed to improve health and bring an end to extreme poverty around the world," said Bill Gates.
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Modern Technology and Ancient Surgery Battle AIDS
The emergence of new and improved drugs, genetic engineering and the ancient surgical practice of circumcision are the latest weapons in the fight against AIDS, the International AIDS Society conference was told on Tuesday.
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AIDS Conference Calls for Child-Specific HIV Drugs
The world's biggest AIDS conference closed on Wednesday with a call for the development of child-specific drugs to ensure millions of HIV-infected children not only survive to adulthood, but also live without damaging side effects from their treatment.
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HIV-Infected Babies Can Be Saved
HIV-infected babies given antiretroviral drugs in the first weeks of life were four times more likely to survive than those left untreated, raising hopes that more young lives can be saved, new research suggests.
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In Botswana, Step to Cut AIDS Proves a Formula for Disaster
A decade-long, global push to provide infant formula to mothers with the AIDS virus had backfired in Botswana, leaving children more vulnerable to other, more immediately lethal diseases.
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TB Tests Show Promise, but Flaws Limit Progress
In the escalating battle against extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, conflicting findings from laboratory tests have hampered efforts to control the spread of the disease.
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Clinton Pilots Subsidized Malaria Drugs in Africa
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton launched a program on Sunday to make subsidized malaria drugs available in Tanzania in a test scheme that could serve as a blueprint for Africa as a whole.
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Latest HIV/AIDS headlines
Latest Malaria headlines
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4. Opportunities
Media Awards for HIV/AIDS reportage in Bangladesh
Panos South Asia invites print and broadcast journalists to submit investigative features on the status of “Universal Access to Comprehensive Prevention Programmes, Treatment, Care and Support by 2010” in Bangladesh, in response to HIV and AIDS.
12 reports published or broadcast between 06 July and 06 November 2007 will be eligible for cash awards of Taka 15,000 each. A panel of mass media and HIV & AIDS experts will select reports for the award. Several entries from a single journalist will be accepted.
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Award to recognize innovation in development projects
Media-related projects are among those eligible for the Global Development Network’s annual competition for the Most Innovative Development Project. Entry deadline: August 20.
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IWPR establishes fund to train exiled journalists
Exiled or disabled journalists around the world now have the chance to attend training programs at the Institute of War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) through a newly established fund.
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The Commonwealth Vision Awards 2007
Open to broadcasters and independent programme makers within the Commonwealth, the annual Commonwealth Vision Awards recognise excellence in the making of a short film on a designated Commonwealth theme. The prizes are presented at a prestigious media event, with the winning entries broadcast widely across the Commonwealth. Judging of the short-listed films will take place in October and the awards announced and presented at a Gala Awards Ceremony in December. The winner will receive £2,500 and a trophy, and other awards will be made. The winning entries will, from January 2008, be broadcast Commonwealth-wide, particularly on Commonwealth Day. The closing date: Friday 3 August 2007. Applications may also be made online at www.rcsint.org/vision
Free online course
News University, the Poynter Institute's innovative e-learning center that helps journalists through self-directed training, offers a beat-specific course, "Covering Water Quality," at no cost to registered users of NewsU. The course, a partnership between the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies/NewsU, helps participants gain a better understanding of the issues surrounding the quality of drinking water.
more details
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5. Resources
HIV and AIDS Strategic Framework 2007-2009
This document provides a strategic framework for the Commonwealth Secretariat as it continues to address the pandemic of HIV and AIDS. It acts as a review of what has been achieved to date and as a focus for activities between 2007 and 2009. It is aimed at all members of staff, in support of a comprehensive, multi-divisional and multidisciplinary approach to HIV and AIDS programming for the Commonwealth.
Download:
HIV/AIDS Strategic Framework 2007-2009
Avian flu "Supermap"
Scientists here have designed a new, interactive map of the spread of the avian flu virus (H5N1) that for the first time incorporates genetic, geographic and evolutionary information that may help predict where the next outbreak of the virus is likely to occur. In the process, they also tested hypotheses about the nature of specific strains of the virus that appear to be heading westward and have the ability to infect humans.
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Ethnicity & Screening for Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia
This publication, by Dr. Simon Dyson, uses sickle cell screening policies to explore the contested relationship between 'race' and genes, and is based on interviews with sickle cell counsellors. This book asks what types of ethnicity information are relevant for health professionals to ask as part of the recently formalised screening process - and why.
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