November 30, 2007
On World AIDS Day, an Interactive Map for Radio and TV News
Dear Friend,
"AIDS is not a disease of poverty, but a disease of inequality. It's specifically gender inequalities that fuel the epidemic." Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS |
On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2007, Internews’ Local Voices program renews its commitment to give all journalists the skills and information they need to produce reliable and effective stories on HIV and AIDS, with a special emphasis on training and mentoring female health journalists.
The map below contains links to audio, video and print stories produced by reporters and talk show hosts trained and supported by the Local Voices program and to articles about Internews’ HIV/AIDS work. The journalists from Africa, India and Southeast Asia who produced these stories have helped their readers, listeners and viewers understand the link between gender and HIV and AIDS through stories that have relevance and resonance to their lives.
We welcome your comments and we appreciate your support.
Sincerely,
Annette Makino
Senior Vice President for Communications and Corporate Affairs
Internews Network
| Click on an icon for an article about an Internews project, a profile of a local journalist, or radio, video or print samples of HIV programs in a particular country. (Text links below) |  Audio |
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Internews Network’s programs improving HIV/AIDS reporting around the world are funded by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The UK Department for International Development (DFID) funds Internews Europe to conduct a similar program in Southeast Asia.
Monitoring the Media According to the 2005 Global Media Monitoring Project, although women constitute 52% of the world’s population, they make up only 21% of people featured in the news. Eight in every ten spokespeople in the news are men. And men dominate the ranks of journalists. For every story that challenges detrimental gender stereotypes, there are another two that reinforce them. Internews’ own 2006 study of the view of People Living with HIV and AIDS showed a similar trend. PLWHIV have little voice in the media, which tends to portray them as helpless and passive rather than courageous, contributing members of society. |
Sylvia Chebet, Kenyan Journalist
"Before the training, it would have scared me. How and where would I find the stories to fill such a slot? But now somehow my eyes have been opened. Now I have so many stories, my only fear is I won’t have enough time to do them all!” |
"My Dead Husband's Land" The World Community Film Festival has selected the documentary film, "My Dead Husband's Land," for its 2008 festival. Produced by Internews Senior Health Advisor Mia Malan, the film tells the story of an HIV-positive widow, Betty Tom, and the transformation of her community on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya. |
Local Voices Internews Network has produced a flyer (PDF) describing the work of its Local Voices project improving journalism for better public health. Globalization of HIV/AIDS Siv Cheng, Media Advisor for Internews Cambodia, has had a chapter accepted for the book, Globalization of HIV/AIDS: An Interdisciplinary Reader, to be published by Florida International University. |
 Internews is a non-profit organization that works to improve access to information for people around the world by fostering independent media and promoting open communications policies in the public interest. This e-newsletter focuses on our work improving reporting on HIV/AIDS. |
Text Links for Radio, TV and Print Articles
- Radio Programs
- HIV and Orphaned Children in Ethiopia, produced by Tadesse Adela
- Adoption in Nigeria, produced by Chinyere Ugwuegbu
- Kenyans Living with HIV in Refugee Camps, produced by Sammy Muraya
- HIV Counseling and Testing Centers in India, produced by Vijay Kumar
- Video by Local Journalists
- Blood Safety, produced by Sylvia Chebet for Citizen TV in Kenya
- Profiles of Local Journalists
- On the Beat with Kenyan Health Reporter Sylvia Chebet
- Rosemary Ejirika's Radio Clinic
- In Tamil Nadu, India, Radio Show on HIV Finds an Eager Audience
- Articles about Internews Local Voices Projects
- AIDS on the Air: Campus Radio Station Enlivens HIV Testing
- Ethiopian Journalists Learn Creative Ways to Report News
- Nigerian Journalist Puts a Human Face on HIV/AIDS
- Cambodian Journalists Unravel Case of Sex Worker Who Insisted on Condom
- Time Bomb for Roma, by Mia Malan and Jayalakshmi Shreedhar
- In Vietnam, Media Leaders Vow to Reduce Stigma in HIV/AIDS Coverage
More information on Internews' health journalism programs
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Banner photo: Indian women living with HIV remove masks and burn them, symbolically ending their silence about the violence they have suffered because they are HIV-positive. (Jaya Shreedhar/Internews)
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