| | | Update | | | | Funding for project developed on course | | | .JPG) | | Sonya Stewart, radio and TV producer at CVM Communications Group, in Jamaica, wins funding for HIV campaign developed on Health and Media course in Trinidad. | | |
| Those of you who have attended our Health and Media in-country course will recall the health programme, feature, or campaign "pitch" you had to develop (in small groups) and present on the final day. The idea being that you would take these ideas back to your newspaper - or radio or TV station - for further development. Some of these ideas have ended up as feature articles, and radio and TV programmes.
Funding 
Now, Sonya Stewart, with the support of CVM Communications President, David Mcbean, has "pitched" her group's idea to a regional Caribbean HIV funding organisation. The project, entitled, "Sparking the Consciousness", an HIV awarness and behavioural change campaign, incorporating two documentaries, on air spots, and a televised discussion forum and conference, has now received some solid funding.
More funds needed
This is a big project and more funds will be needed before it can go-ahead, so, if you can assist, send me an email and I will forward your email over to Sonya.
More details
I have included more details on this campaign at the bottom of this update.
Congratulations to all involved in this campaign and I look forward to hearing more.
We're getting fancy
Yes, now when you send along a paragraph or two on a developing health issue in your region it will be put on the Health and Media website straight away, then catalogued and archived with an option for readers to comment - "blog style"...a link to your article will be created on our home page, and (wait for this...) you can now subscribe to an RSS feed of these and other Health and Media website updates. You can visit this new section of the Health and Media site here:
http://healthandmedia.blogspot.com/
Go on.. have a look.
And, If that isn't enough to impress, the new look website should have gasping in awe (... though, I haven't finished that bit yet).
Colin Lloyd
Health and Media listserv
Cape Town, South Africa
New members
Welcome Willem Hechter, Director of AETUS Medical in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Ms. Rema Venu, from UNICEF's New York headquarters who writes, "I am the web focal point for the Avian and Pandemic Influenza website at UNICEF as well as manager of the inter-agency online Avian and Pandemic Influenza Communication Resources. http://wwww.unicef.org/avianflu
| | 1. Your emails | | | Botswana HIV update
Unu Lebakwe, Botswana Television
Thanks for your efforts of keeping me update with the latest issues pertaining to HIV/AIDS and other related health issues. To share with you on how Botswana is doing with regard to HIV/AIDS issues; president Festus has last week told the ruling BDP women's congress that the government is proud to announce that more than 80-thousand people have enrolled in the ARVs roll out programme manned by government. The ARVs in Botswana are given out free. Still on issues related to the scourge the research on HIV prevention vaccines, 1200 volunteers to participate on the programme.
Gambia TB situation alarming
Yusupha Bojang, Gambia
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Lesotho to reduce HIV in children
Teboho Senthebane, South Africa
The Lesotho government has launched a four-year plan to reduce new HIV infections among children by 50 percent and ensure that all HIV-infected children have access to life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) treatment. Mother-to-child transmission is the leading cause of HIV infection in children. Lesotho introduced prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) services in 2003. WHO and UNICEF are partnering with Lesotho's Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to implement a new plan that includes establishing universal access to PMTCT services and reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission by 80 percent by 2011.
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| | 3. Opportunities | | | Apply for reporting course in Swaziland
Journalists both print and broadcast from the SADC Region. This course will cover issues related to poverty and how to best report on them.
Contents: Social dimensions of poverty; poverty, gender and HIV/AIDS; men and women�s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS; trade and poverty, Millennium Development Goals, ethical reporting; interviewing skills, and assessing the World Bank�s measure of poverty.
Course dates: 6 - 17 August, 2007
Closing Date: June 30, 2007 more
TV training in Kenya
A new training program in Kenya aims to give TV journalists the tools to improve their coverage of HIV and AIDS. Internews Network announced the expansion of its Local Voices project in Kenya on May 17. Internews says the project will train Kenyan TV journalists in how to better cover the critical issue in an accurate and compelling way. Trainees also will have access to the production facilities at the Internews studio in Nairobi. more
Funding for digital media ideas and news
Do you have an idea that uses digital media, involves new forms of news in the public interest, and focuses on a specific geographic community? If you answered yes to all of the questions above, then your idea is eligible for funding from the Knight Foundation.
Submission deadline: October 15.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will award a total of US$5 million to individuals, organizations or businesses from any country to implement a project that will transform community news. Applications submitted from July 1 until December 31. For more information and to register, visit http://www.newschallenge.org/home.php
Submission deadline: October 15.
Fellowship for Pacific Islanders
Pacific Island journalists eligible for fellowship to visit Japan Three Pacific Island journalists will be selected for the Sasakawa Pacific Islands Journalism Fellowship which aims to further understanding between Japan and Pacific region. Reporters working in any media are invited to apply. Application deadline: June 29. The fellowship is a project of the Sasakawa Pacific Island Nations Fund and Pacific Magazine. more
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Africa perspective at G8 Summit
Award-winning journalists to share African perspective on G8 Nine award-winning journalists are covering the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, with stories and perspectives from Africa on HIV/AIDS and healthcare, international aid, debt relief and climate change. The initiative called the AfricaVox, set up by non-profit organization Panos London, includes reporters from Ethiopia, Uganda, Mozambique and South Africa. The nine-day project is attempting to investigate whether the G8 Summit, which began on June 1, addresses African concerns. The aim is to offer fresh perspectives and to give a voice to people in Africa directly affected by decisions made at the G8. The 2005 G8 Summit in Gleneagles pledged to increase aid, forgive international debt, and fund HIV/AIDS treatment worldwide. Through fresh insights and sharp reporting the team are analyzing whether those promises have been kept.
For permission to reproduce articles and audio:
email: info@panos.org.uk.
To commission or interview the journalists, contact the AfricaVox editor Anna Egan at anna.egan@panos.org.uk.
For more information, visit www.panos.org.uk/africavox2007
| | 5. Projects | | | "Sparking the Consciousness", an HIV awarness and behavioural change campaign
The Campaign will consist of the following:
- Two documentaries
- An examination of the process of getting tested for HIV/AIDS
- A discussion of the projections for the Regional economies in the year 20/20 if the pandemic is not contained.
- An on air promotion on CVM TV using popular personalities to highlight an end to discrimination, increased condom use and positive thinking.
- A Forum under theme of �Sparking The Consciousness� on World AIDS Day December 1st 2007.
The Forum to be held on World AIDS Day December 1, 2007 in Kingston Jamaica will focus on:
1. Protection
2. Testing
3. Living with HIV/AIDS
4. Discrimination
The proposed panelists will include:
- Dr. Peter Figueroa from Ministry of Health in Jamaica
- Dr. Amery Brown from the Ministry of Health in Trinidad and Tobago
- Dr. Peter Morgan from the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre
- Representatives from the regional NGO communities.
- Individuals living with AIDS
The forum will also provide a venue for HIV testing. There will be opportunities for NGO, Agencies and Government agencies to disseminate of information, distribute products and raise public awareness about issues related to HIV/AIDS and healthy lifestyles
The plan is to broadcast the panel discussion throughout the Caribbean either live or recorded thus adding to the regional public awareness campaigns.
For more information reply to this email. | | |
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