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 AIDSLink | issue 86, 1 July 2004
Member/NGO News : The Inside Track
AIDSLink Editor | Global
Read the latest news and updates from the Global Health Council and its members. Updated with each new issue of Global AIDSLink®.
Feature : Scaling Up the Role of Media
Drew Altman, PhD, President and CEO, Kaiser Family Foundation |
The most underutilized force for scaling up HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs is the media.
Feature : Challenging HIV Stigma: A Toolkit for Action
Sue Clay, Kara Counseling and Training Trust; Gayle Gibbons & Anton Schneider, CHANGE Project; Jessie Mbwambo, Muhimbili Univ.; Ross Kidd, Participatory Trainer |
AIDS activists from more than 50 NGOs have created a toolkit that helps unravel the core issues of HIV/AIDS-related stigma and suggest programmatic interventions.
Letter from the President : Media at Its Best and Worst
Dr. Nils Daulaire, President & CEO, Global Health Council |
This is not a time for silence, for muting honest and forthright communications about the realities of AIDS, and ways we can respond.
Best Practices : Machismo and the Virgin: Media and Stigma in Mexico
Ken Morrison, Mexican National Institute of Public Health/POLICY Project; Alegandro Brito & Manuel Figueroa, Letras | North America
In Mexico, stigma related to homosexuality seems much more prominent than that related to HIV.
Member Profile : Staying Alive in Senegal
Stephanie Savariaud, Consultant, YouthNet/Family Health International | Africa
In August 2002, FHI/Senegal formed an advisory committee to assess the global MTV materials and to develop a country-based campaign.
Feature : Dramatizing HIV/AIDS in Cambodia and India
Lori McDougall, Senior Project Advisor, BBC World Service Trust |
BBC World Service Trust has media projects in Cambodia and India that include multiple media formats designed to achieve a reinforcing effect.
Feature : Media-NGO Partnerships, Through a Different Lens
Mia Malan, Resident Advisor, Kenya and Internews, Local Voices Project | Africa
Media is a strong reflection of the environment in which it develops and operates, impacting the fight against HIV/AIDS either negatively or positively.
Other Sources : Building the Legal Capacity to Fight Discrimination
Ted Samaras, Vice President, Information and Strategy Development, JurisAIDS | Africa
The JurisAIDS program is a pathfinder in providing free legal services to PLHAs in Senegal.
Best Practices : Messaging HIV/AIDS
Bec Shaw Crompton, Program Officer, The Panos Institute | Africa
The ideal of public service broadcasting is to make good programs popular and popular programs good.
Plus Life : Words and Pictures: Sticks and Stones
Kevin Osborne, Senior Advisor: HIV/AIDS, International Planned Parenthood Federation | Global
Language matters. Pictures paint a thousand words. Stigma can be overcome.
Other Sources : Resources
AIDSLink Editor | Global
The latest publications and resources available in the global health field. Updated with each new issue of Global AIDSLink®.
Best Practices : TimeLine
AIDSLink Editor | Global
Calendar of upcoming events in the global health field. Updated with each new issue of Global AIDSLink®.
Other Sources : News Headlines from Around the Globe
AIDSLink Editor | Global
News briefs from around the world. Updated with each new issue of Global AIDSLink®.
Global Health Council Information : Lighting a Path for Destigmatization
Jennifer Hyman, Managing Editor, Global AIDSLink, Global Health Council | Global
On Sunday, May 16, an estimated 1 million people from 4,000 communities in 96 countries joined together to commemorate the 21st International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, honoring the theme, 'Turning Remembrance into Action.'
Positive Voices : Destigmatizing Disclosure
Martin Leigh | Global
The author shares his HIV-positive story and states that positive HIV advocates who can talk from personal experience are needed. |
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