| | Opportunity for all journalists interested in reporting on malaria... | |  | | Journalists can join the press conference call today...
17 October | | | Significant gains in the fight against malaria in sub-Saharan Africa are being made, according to a new report released today. The report, Malaria and Children, prepared by UNICEF on behalf of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM), contains a comprehensive assessment of the progress that has been made in malaria control... Read press release
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"If any journalist would like to join the press conference send your telephone number to: "HALIL, Katya" halilk@who.int, at RBM. She will call and connect you to the conference call in Seattle, USA. I hope this will be of interest."
Louis Da Gama, Princess of Africa Foundation, SA
From the Editor/Moderator:
It is nice to see such a range of journalists and professionals joining this listserv. I am Twelve more joined up since my last update including two from the World Bank - the organisation that provided some initial seed funding to develop our website and this listserv - must be 5 or 6 years ago now...
Thanks to all of you who have contributed stories to our website, and kept me in touch with breaking health stories in your area of the world. Keep up the good work.
Colin Lloyd
Health and Media listserv moderator/editor
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1. NEW MEMBERS
Zambia: Caesar Jere, Media and ICT Adviser, Panos Southern Africa, Lusaka
"My work involves advising and planning media and ICT programmes that promote development issues, especially those affecting the poor and marginalised."
Tanzania: Jack Michael Meena, Journalist and Training Manager, Centre for CSR & Corporate Communications, Dar es Salaam
"I am now working with the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) as a Programme Manager-campaigns and media I also run my own firm that dealing with community development issues: health, education, poverty, environment and gender."
South Africa: Laura Lopez, Editorial Assistant, Plusnews, Johannesburg
"I work for the United Nations HIV and AIDS news service, PlusNews. Thanks so much for picking up Hayden's diary. We have some more resources I think you'd be interested in, including some how-to guides for journalists covering HIV in certain vulnerable populations. For more on our Fact Files, www.plusnews.org/MediaTools.aspx "
USA: Melinda Elias, Junior Professional Associate, World Bank, Washington, DC
"I'm a Junior Professional Associate in Health, Nutrition, and Population Unit of the World Bank. Also, a co-director of UNA-NCA YPIC Africa committee."
USA: Mia Malan, Senior Health Journalism Advisor, Internews, Washington, DC
"I work for the Health Journalism Program of the media development organization, Internews Network. We have health journalism programs in Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, India and the Mekong Region. Prior to my DC based position, I headed our Kenya program. Before Kenya, I was the health correspondent (radio and television) of the South African Broadcasting Corporation."
Mauritius: S. Nanda Armoogum, Chief Editor, Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation, Forest Side
"I strongly believe in networking and would be happy to share and update knowledge with colleagues worldwide."
USA: Sinikiwe Msipa - Ndebele, Director (Media and Development Organisation)
"I am currently on a two year study on "Sustainable International Development" at Brandeis University, USA"
USA: Seung-Hee Nah, World Bank (IFC), Washington, DC
"I am a development finance professional with 20+ years of work experience at the IFC, which is part of the World Bank Group with a special focus on private sector development in developing countries".
Swaziland: Bheki Mazibuko, Journalist, Swazi TV
South Africa: Karen Williams, Freelance Media Trainer/ Consultant
USA: LeighAnn Berry, College Student, Omaha
South Africa: Mary Papayya, Independent SA & Africa Media + Broadcast Trainer
2. EMAILS
 Ndjabun Irene Sidonie, Journalist, La Nouvelle Expression, Yaounde, Cameroon
"You can find some new articles on malaria on my blog:
www.jumelles-blog.africaciel.com "
Rosa Hamukuaja-Thobias, Media Liaison Officer, Min. Mines & Energy, Namibia
"I recently got a new job as PRO for the ministry of Mines and Energy and just wanted to inform you to please continue to send me informative news on health reporting."
Thanks to those listserv members below who have recently emailed their health stories:
You can read all these contributions and more by visiting the Health and Media blog site:
www.healthandmedia.blogspot.com
Unsafe sex drives HIV infection
Maruf Mallick, bdnews24.com, Staff Correspondent, Bangladesh
NGO condemns Cross Generational Sex
Blasius Charles NJI, Bamenda, Cameroon
UK politician talks Malaria in Mozambique
Alfredo Libombo, National Director, Misa, Mozambique
"AIDS could 'wipe-out' Lesotho"
Teboho Senthebane, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
3. HEALTH NEWS
Uganda: Country Now Makes ARVs
A year ago it was a potato garden. Now the 15-acre plot is hosting a hi-tech pharmaceutical factory, the first of its kind in Africa.
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H5N1 virus 'now infects people more easily'
The H5N1 bird flu virus has mutated to infect people more easily, although researchers say it still has not transformed into a pandemic strain.
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Bird flu forces Bangladesh to cull chickens
Bangladesh culled some 5,000 chickens after bird flu infected a farm in the northern region of the country.
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Bird flu stalking Tanzanian communities
The government has warned that Tanzania was still at the risk of avian flu, and urged the general public to understand the disease and adopt basic hygiene practices for self-protection.
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Person-to-person bird flu confirmed
BIRD flu has spread between humans on several occasions, a new study of deaths in Indonesia last year has found.
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Polio Vaccine Back in the Headlines
A report in an American medical journal that children in northern Nigeria have been infected with polio by the vaccine designed to prevent it have raised fears that Nigeria's already lagging polio prevention efforts could be further delayed.
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Latest HIV News
Latest Malaria News
4. OPPORTUNITIES
New initiative to address TB drug shortage
The Stop TB Partnership's Global Drug Facility and UNITAID today announced a collaboration with 19 countries to address life-threatening shortages of anti-tuberculosis drugs.
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Fellowship for journalists covering human rights
Journalists who report on human rights issues can apply for a fellowship in Maine, in the northeastern United States. Deadline: December 15.
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Science and religion fellowships
interested journalists can now apply for a fellowship that includes study at Cambridge.Deadline: Dec 8.
www.templeton-cambridge.org
Pacific Media Center seeks papers
The Pacific Media Center is requesting academic paper submissions for an upcoming conference in the Philippines.
www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/SPICF/SPICF.shtml#abstracts
Share experiences with your African colleagues
The Forum for African Investigative Reporters (FAIR) is collecting investigative stories from across the continent to compile a handbook for investigative journalists. Deadline : November 23.
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Summit explores media and development
The fifth Asia Media Summit, scheduled for May 27 and 28, 2008, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
www.aibd.org.my/conferences/ams
A call for proposals
contributions to COL's Fifth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF5), "Access to Learning for Development", which will be held from 13-17 July 2008 at the University of London, U.K.
www.col.org/edea
The 2nd Annual Lung Cancer Journalism Award The Lung Cancer Journalism Awards’ mission: to raise global awareness of the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide.
www.lungcancerjournalism.com/index.html
Reproductive Health Conference '08
Call for Abstracts for the Reproductive Health in Emergencies Conference 2008. The Conference is being held on 18-20 June 2008. The due date for submission is January 31, 2008.
www.raiseinitiative.org/conference
HIV/AIDS Awards, Zimbabwe
Call for nominations Individuals and organizations. HIV and AIDS Awards ceremony to be held in Harare on November 29th 2007.
www.pambazuka.org/en/category/courses/43624
$1m Gates Award for Global Health
Deadline: Oct. 31
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Award for Global Health & Human Rights
The Jonathan Mann Award. Deadline: Jan. 15
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Excellence in Media Award for Global Health
Deadline: Feb. 1
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5. RESOURCES
New York Times Examines ITN Distribution
The New York Times recently examined the debate over how insecticide-treated nets should be distributed in Africa.
www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/health/09nets.html
Impact of Home-Based Malaria Management
On Health Outcomes in Africa A Systematic Review of the Evidence The study, published in Malaria Journal, examines the effect of home-based management of malaria on morbidity and mortality rates.
http://www.malariajournal.com/content/6/1/134
Financing the Fight Against AIDS, TB and Malaria
The editorial, published in the Lancet, examines the amount of funding required to combat HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria around the world.
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