Stories and Articles About Our Work

  • What we need to end AIDS

    Wednesday, August 1, 2012

    Part of a series of reports from Kenyan journalists and staff from Internews in Kenya who attended the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington, DC.

    By Ida Jooste, Country Director, Internews in Kenya Read more »

  • Egyptian Youth Use Multimedia to Engage Citizens

    Monday, July 30, 2012
    3 young women presenting

    Yasmine Amin, a young journalist in Aswan, Egypt, established a public campaign using social media tools to address discrimination against women and tribal power in elections.

    “The winds of the Tahrir Revolution have not been felt strongly in Aswan,” said Amin, whose campaign grew out of a workshop as part of Internews’ “Partners II: Media and Youth for Community Participation” project. Read more »

  • Dispelling disability myths

    Sunday, July 29, 2012

    Part of a series of reports from Kenyan journalists and staff from Internews in Kenya who attended the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington, DC.

    By Ida Jooste, Country Director, Internews in Kenya Read more »

  • For the love of the hunt

    Saturday, July 28, 2012
    A photographer takes a picture of people with a banner

    Part of a series of reports from Kenyan journalists and staff from Internews in Kenya who attended the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington, DC.

    By Ernest Waititu, Program Director, Health and Digital Media, Internews in Kenya

    I grew up a hunter. To me and other boys in my village, hunting was not a pastime. It was an important search for animal protein that the peasant farmers who were our parents could not often provide. Read more »

  • Challenges Face Libya’s Nascent Independent Media

    Friday, July 27, 2012

    New content analysis of Libyan local media illustrates considerable gaps in the professional skills of Libya’s new journalists, while trainings conducted by Internews are contributing to the development of a cadre of Libyan journalists capable of producing high quality, independent, and professional media content. Read more »

  • The Darkest Hour Comes Before Dawn

    Friday, July 27, 2012
    3 people meet by a larger poster

    Part of a series of reports from Kenyan journalists and staff from Internews in Kenya who attended the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington, DC.

    By Isaiah Esipisu Read more »

  • Media as an Intervention Tool for HIV Prevention among Rural Women

    Friday, July 27, 2012
    Two conference participants talk below some posters

    Part of a series of reports from Kenyan journalists and staff from Internews in Kenya who attended the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington, DC.

    By Isaiah Esipisu, freelance science journalist

    It is now 10 years since Julius Keya, a Kenyan born journalist settled in the US. Yet, he still recalls radio programs that ran on the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation radio about HIV and AIDS while he was at school in the 1990s. Read more »

  • The story behind the face – how photojournalism combats stigma

    Friday, July 27, 2012
    Photo gallery

    Part of a series of reports from Kenyan journalists and staff from Internews in Kenya who attended the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington, DC.

    By Callie Long, Internews Consultant Read more »

  • Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision - Photo Essay

    Friday, July 27, 2012

    Part of a series of reports from journalists and staff from Internews in Kenya who attended the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington, DC.

    Kenya is leading the way worldwide with the roll-out of voluntary medical male circumcision as an HIV prevention tool. Read more »

  • Story by story turning the tide against the spread of HIV

    Friday, July 27, 2012
    Man takes a photo at the conference

    Part of a series of reports from Kenyan journalists and staff from Internews in Kenya who attended the AIDS 2012 conference in Washington, DC.

    By Callie Long, Internews Consultant Read more »