Award winners
The
Thomson Foundation announces the winners of the 'Reporting
HIV/AIDS- EU-India Media Awards 2006'.
Mohuya
Chaudhuri for “AIDS under the Arclights”, a programme
on NDTV that made an in-depth examination of exploitation
and exposure to HIV in the Chennai film industry. It encompassed
a wide range of issues and made for gripping television.
View an extract from Mohuya’s programme
here…
Bharati
Ghanashyam,
for her article “Whither messaging?”, which investigated
the effectiveness of health communication. The report was
well written and focused on attitudes and misconceptions
about HIV/AIDS in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
Read the report here…
Biju
Mathew,
from All India Radio, Trivandrum, for his entry “One Among
Us” which was an evocative and hard-hitting expose of people
living with HIV/AIDS being denied medical care. Good research
and a strong focus were combined with effective use of the
medium.
Hear the entry
here…
From
the Dinamalar newspaper in Madurai, S
Nagarathinam, who produced a special page holding
the health system accountable for lack of diagnostic and
treatment facilities for people living with HIV/AIDS. His
campaign was focused, comprehensive, and made for compelling
reading.
Read the campaign here…
Sanjeev
Sharma,
from All India Radio, Jammu, for his radio programme “Isse
Pehle ki Andhera Ho (Before Darkness Descends)” on living
positively. The well-paced programme was informative and
explored at the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS in
rural areas.
Hear the entry here…
Rajeet
Ranjan Sinha
for his programme “Main Jeena Chahta Hoon (I Want to Live)”
on Zee News, in which he looked at the issue of provision
of AIDS drugs through the eyes of one man. The programme
represented speedy and effective coverage of a current issue.
View an extract
here...
The entries of the winning participants were chosen for
their excellence in the reporting of HIV/AIDS issues in
India and their furtherance of the best practices enumerated
in the HIV/AIDS Media Manual, India.
Click
here for details of the 2005
Award Recipients and their study tour to the UK.
STUDY
TOUR TO THE UK FOR 2006 AWARD RECIPIENTS
The
recipients of the Reporting HIV/AIDS Awards went on a study
trip to the UK from December 11-15, 2006. They visited a
number of organisations working on HIV/AIDS and related
issues.
Organisations
visited on the study trip:
1.
Department of Health (Government of UK)
2. African HIV Policy Network
3. Commonwealth Broadcasting Association
4. Commonwealth Press Union
5. Naz Project, London
6. National Union of Journalists, UK
7. Terrence Higgins Trust
8. UK Coalition of People Living with HIV/AIDS
9. Elton John AIDS Foundation, UK
10. UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development
11. National AIDS Trust, UK
12. Naz Foundation
