Panos STOP-TB & HIV Media Fellowships

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Panos/Stop TB Media Fellowships

www.panosaids.org/tb_fellowships

The Panos Global AIDS Programme and Stop TB

Partnership invite print and photo journalists from

selected high burden countries in Asia, Africa and

Caribbean (India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan,

Philippines, Zambia, Ethiopia, Malawi and Haiti) to

apply for a fellowship to write/photograph issues

around TB, and TB & HIV/AIDS. Fellowships will run

from June to October 2005.

Each fellowship will involve working closely with the

Panos Global AIDS Programme, the Stop TB Partnership

and a panel of experts on TB and communication in TB

and/or HIV/AIDS in the countries specified.

The aim of the fellowships is to enable print and

photojournalists in selected high burden countries in

Asia, Africa and the Caribbean to better explore and

understand the linkages between TB, HIV/AIDS, poverty,

urbanisation and other socio economic vulnerabilities.

In particular, in Africa the project will focus on

highlighting the urgency for collaborative TB/HIV

actions at all levels to counter the dual epidemics.

Selected print journalists will be awarded a grant of

400 US dollars each, plus travel and data collection

expenses, and will be expected to produce three

1000-word articles on issues around TB and TB &

HIV/AIDS. Selected photojournalists will be awarded a

grant of 1000 US dollars each, plus travel and data

collection expenses, to produce one photo essay around

the issue of TB and/or TB & HIV/AIDS. All selected

fellows will be provided with editorial support in

terms of storyline and production of photos, as well

as information on medical and policy issues on TB.

They will also receive potential contacts and resource

material. Two fellowships will be awarded to print

journalists in each country, and three fellowships

will be awarded in India. A total of four photo

fellowships will be awarded from within the specified

countries.

Applicants must submit the following no later than 2nd

May 2005:

· Curriculum vitae

· Up to five samples of published work/ photographs on

health/development issues. Photojournalists can also

submit a portfolio of their work.

· A 500-word write-up explaining why you should be

considered for the fellowship. Please indicate briefly

the TB and communication issues that you would like to

research and report on, for which you might use the

award if you received it.

· Two references from persons who have known you

professionally.

· An undertaking to publish or print their photographs

in their respective publications.

Only journalists who are citizens of and resident in

Bangladesh, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malawi,

Zambia, Ethiopia and Haiti are eligible to apply.

Journalists writing in regional languages are

encouraged to apply. However, their CV and the

write-up should be in English and at least one sample

of their work must be translated into English.

To apply, please e-mail all relevant documentation to

Panos.TBFellowship@....

Panos will auto-acknowledge email entry/ies from each

contestant. If you do not receive one within 48 hours,

please send your entries again.

Instructions for Submission

Please give the following information with your

submission:

Name

Sex

Employment (eg “Business reporter with the Zambia

Daily News/Health reporter with The Hindu”)

Postal address

e-mail address

Telephone number

About us:

The Panos Global AIDS Programme is a network of Panos

offices in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Europe,

working on participation, ownership and accountability

in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Panos works with the media and other information

actors to enable developing countries to shape and

communicate their own development agendas through

informed public debate.

The Stop TB Partnership is a global social movement

with 325 members that include donor institutions,

technical agencies, NGOs, universities, advocacy and

patient activist groups. The Partnership aims to

mobilize the political, financial and technical

resources that are needed to meet the Millennium

Development Goals targets of reducing TB prevalence

and deaths by half by 2015, and eventually to

eliminate TB as a public health threat by 2050.

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" Anushree Mishra "

E-mail: <anushreemishra@...>