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Roundtable Discussion:
African News Media and HIV/AIDS
The World Bank and Internews Network
invite you to a
Special Roundtable
Discussion: African News Media and HIV/AIDS
on Wednesday, August
16, 2006
from 18:00 – 20:00
Skills Building Room 7 At the 2006
International AIDS Conference Toronto, Ontario
Description/Focus:
Stigma and lack of information about HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
deters people from seeking their HIV status and accessing treatment.
African news media play a key role in providing information and stimulating
discussion about the virus and its effects. This roundtable discussion
will explore the treatment of HIV/AIDS in African news media, explore
the news media’s role in addressing the pandemic and offer suggestions
for African news media’s advancing engagement with issues around HIV/AIDS.
Discussants will focus on what is required to build the capacity of
journalists to effectively report on HIV/AIDS. Join this special roundtable
discussion and help us put HIV/AIDS in the news in Africa.
Moderators: Beldina Auma, Senior Communications
Officer, the World Bank, and Ron MacInnis, Director of Health Journalism,
Internews Network.
Brief Presentations from:
- Elizabeth Laura Lule, Manager, ACTafrica, The World Bank
How are World Bank HIV/AIDS programs in Africa structured? How
can capacity building for media be incorporated into National
AIDS Control Program activities?
- Mia Malan, Senior Resident Advisor, Internews Network
What are the general capacity building needs of journalists in
Africa?
Discussants:
- Omololu Falobi, Executive Director, Journalists Against AIDS
in Nigeria
- Akin Jimoh, Executive Director, Development Communications
Network, Lagos, Nigeria
- Aurora Stally, Project Manager, Maisha Yetu, IWMF
- Ronald Kayanja, Director of the Panos Global AIDS Program,
Zambia
- Inviolata M’mbani, The National Empowerment Network of People
Living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya (NEPHAK) , Kenya
- Anso Thom, News Correspondent, Health-E, South Africa
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