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Media Competition on the Effects and Prevention Efforts of HIV/AIDS to Youth and Women

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The Association of Journalists Against AIDS in Tanzania (AJAAT), in collaboration with the Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS), is hosting a media competition on HIV and AIDS Prevention focusing on youth and women. Supported by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the competition is designed to encourage media to write more about the impacts of HIV and AIDS on youth and women, and what should be done to prevent new HIV infection in the two groups. The competition is open to local journalists from print (newspapers), electronic (radio and TV), and new media (bloggers) and aims to motivate Tanzanians to focus on HIV efforts that will enable the nation to achieve its plan of bringing new HIV infections to Zero by 2015.
Click here for more information about the competition.

Application Info

Registration information: Local journalists or columnists from print, electronic, and new media are invited to submit their entries. According to the organisers, the content of the features or items or programmes to be accepted in the competition should largely focus on how HIV/AIDS has affected youths and women (economically, socially, and in terms of their health status). The information should, for example, show or highlight important issues for HIV prevention among youth and women such as care and support for youth or women living with HIV and AIDS (PLHIV), as well as treatment (in terms of re-infection), family integration, resource mobilisation, research, and knowledge management.
Eligibility and application criteria:

  • Participants for the competition can be all media practitioners in Tanzania, or foreigners working for the Tanzania media.
  • Items or entries allowed to be submitted include, features articles, TV documentaries, radio programmes, cartoons, photographs and blog reports
  • The entries must focus on target issues such as stigma and discrimination, why women and young people are more vulnerable, challenges met by women and young people to access HIV information, services and support and should be detailed with adequate educative information
  • The features or items should specifically focus or target the society of Tanzania
  • It should be original, and not copied from any other publications, i.e. newsletter, magazine, newspaper, TV, radio programmes, blogs, etc.
  • It should have appeared in the media from December 31 2012 to March 31 2013.
  • Languages accepted are Kiswahili or English.
  • Only original clippings or items will be accepted.
  • Submission is restricted to up three different entries per journalist.
  • Different attractive prizes and certificates will be offered to the winners to be selected by professional judges from media and HIV/AIDS and health circles.

Submit entries by hand to Jovina Bujulu or post to AJAAT-UNFPA-TACAIDS Media Competition on HIV/AIDS (see address detail below).

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Association of Journalists Against AIDS in Tanzania (AJAAT) website on January 7 2012.