SciDev. Net & UNESCO Workshop on ICT for HIV/AIDS Communication

[Guest guest]

THE USE OF ICTs FOR REPORTING ON THE SCIENCE OF HIV/AIDS:

A SciDev.Net/UNESCO workshop for women communicators.

Organised in collaboration with M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation

(MSSRF)

5 - 12 November 2003

Chennai, India

SciDev.Net is organising a 7-day workshop for woman communicators who are

(or would like to be) professionally engaged in communicating HIV/AIDS

information to the public through the media (electronic, print, or

broadcast). The workshop coincides with the '4th International Conference on

AIDS INDIA' being held in Chennai, and participants will attend the

conference to gain practical experience. The workshop will be held at the M.

S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) in Chennai.

We invite applications from women working in South Asia (India, Bangladesh,

Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Nepal) with a good knowledge of written and

spoken English.

Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered for 20 applicants.

Applications deadline - Friday, 19 September 2003.

For more information and to fill in an application for this event, please go

to http://www.scidev.net/workshops/chennai

Levin

E-mail: <karen.levin@...>