The European Union is sponsoring a new project aimed at improving news coverage of HIV and AIDS in India.
The U.K.-based Thomson Foundation is organizing the project, set to begin in the first half of 2005. The new project offers training to improve the skills of print, radio and television journalists, while raising the quality of their coverage of critical issues.
Thomson says its trainers will weave the practical training in with seminars and workshops on HIV/AIDS issues and good governance.
This HIV-AIDS project follows a recent EU-India documentary project, which Thomson also conducted. Indian radio and TV journalists took training before producing documentaries on themes of conflict resolution.
The project also follows a recent HIV/AIDS training program that Internews conducted in Chennai, India. From November 29 to December 3, Internews trained a dozen reporters from the Tamil-language press on covering the pandemic and at-risk young people.
For more information on the Thomson project, contact enquiries@thomfound.co.uk or visit http://www.thomsonfoundation.co.uk/home.htm.
Internews: http://www.internews.org/news/2004/20041216_india.html.
