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Reuters Foundation 'Newsmaker' panel discussion on HIV/AIDS

by NO_AUTHOR | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Friday, 1 December 2006 16:56 GMT

Media coverage of HIV/AIDS – and how to keep the pandemic in the news spotlight despite compassion fatigue – was the theme of a lively Reuters Foundation ‘Newsmaker’ panel discussion in the Auditorium of Reuters London headquarters on Wednesday  29 November.  

Veteran media commentator and broadcaster Ray Snoddy chaired the session before almost 100 invited guests.  Other panellists were Peter Tatchell, the gay rights activist, and journalists Andrew Jack (FT), Shereen El Feki (Al Jazeera International), Bernard Tabaire (Uganda Sunday Monitor), and Sean Maguire (Reuters General News Editor, EMEA).    Among other topics, the report touches on the role of religion in AIDS education and how the Islamic media reports HIV/AIDS.   

Reuters Video has produced an edited version of  the debate.

Some of the questions came from a group of 14 journalists from Africa, Asia and South America brought to London for the Foundation’s annual week-long “Reporting HIV/AIDS” workshop.    This is the fourth workshop of its type that Reuters Foundation has organised since 2003.  Courses were held in Cape Town in 2003, Rio de Janeiro in 2004 and New York in 2005.

In the run up to World Aids Day  on 1st December, journalists who have taken Reuters Foundation AIDS reporting courses wrote stories on the subject that were commissioned by AlertNet.  Here are the links to the stories which have also been posted on our website: Putting a brave face on AIDS in Jamaica Kenya takes the AIDS fight to its slums Chip card helps Indian sex workers fight AIDS No rest for the elderly in AIDS-hit Zimbabwe

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