movements against aids
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BackgroundGender inequities exist even with the media fraternity: in terms of the impact on women journalists living with HIV and AIDS as well as in terms of media coverage of women living with HIV and AIDS from their own perspectives.
Project Aims Empower women living with HIV and AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa to communicate their concerns and perspectives Facilitate networking among women journalists living with HIV and AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa Project DescriptionPanos Global AIDS Programme worked through their existing media networks in Eastern and Southern Africa to provide a safe space for journalists living with HIV andAIDS to network and share their concerns. Additionally, women living with HIV were trained in communicating with and writing for the media.
Achievements
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Movements against AIDSFacilitating networking among women journalists living with HIV and AIDS - lessons from Eastern and Southern Africa
A network of 25 JLWHA including eight women has been created in Southern Africa.
In Eastern Africa currently the network has 25 Positive journalists including ten women.
The networks have helped in fighting HIV related stigma within the media sector.
The Herald Newspaper in Zimbabwe has a draft workplace policy, after actions by JLWHA, of the network.
Pamoja FM in the Kibera slum in Kenya started a programme on living positively hosted by a female JLWHA
Lessons LearnedThere are no specific programmes which address the impact of AIDS on journalists themselves. The impact is greater on women journalists living with HIV.
Addressing the personal anxieties of JLWHA will go a long way in fighting stigma and improving the quality of coverage on HIV and AIDS.
Next StepsFacilitating linkages between the two networks and disseminating stories on impact of women journalists living with HIV more widely.
Encouraging media houses to develop a HIV&AIDS workplace based policy.
Journalists living with HIV and AIDS group together during a media skills building session in Nairobi, 2007.Photo credit: Paul Kimumwe/PEA Pictures
Oral Poster DiscussionWhere: Mini Room 9, When: 12.30 - 14.30 Hrs