Panos: Stop TB Media Fellowships

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Panos/Stop TB Media Fellowships

The Panos Global AIDS Programme and Stop TB Partnership invite print and

broadcast journalists from Bangladesh, Botswana, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Kenya

,Lesotho, Pakistan, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe to

apply for a fellowship to write/produce features on issues around TB, and TB &

HIV/AIDS. Fellowships will run from December 2006 to June 2007.

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 broadcast journalists 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 journalists will be awarded a grant of 500 US dollars each, plus travel

and data collection expenses, and will be expected to travel outside their base

to produce at least three feature articles or programmes to be

published/broadcast in mainstream media between February- April 2007. A total of

three journalists, including both broadcast and print will be awarded the

fellowships in each country. Two additional fellowships will be awarded in

India.

Applicants must submit the following no later than 1 December 2006:

• Curriculum vitae

• Up to five samples of published/broadcast work (tapes or transcripts)on

health/development issues

• A 500-word write up explaining why the applicant should be considered for the

fellowship along with a tentative proposal for their research

• Two references from persons who have known the applicant professionally

Only journalists who are citizens of and resident in Bangladesh, Botswana,

Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Kenya ,Lesotho , Pakistan, South Africa, Swaziland,

Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe 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.

Instructions for Submission

Please give the following information with your submission:

Name

Gender

Media and Designation

Postal address

e-mail address

Telephone number

To apply please send all relevant documentation to:

Panos South Asia (India Country Office)

Mitu Varma,

IInd Floor, D-302, Defence Colony

New Delhi 110024, India

Tel: 0091-11-24615217/24615219

Fax: 0091-11-24615218

Email: panos@...

Web Site: www.panossouthasia.org/india

Panos South Asia Pakistan

Sahar Ali,

14-C, Bokhari Commercial Lane, D.H.A. Phase VI, Karachi

Email: shahzad@..., panospakistan@...

Panos South Asia Bangladesh

S. M. Mayeen Ahmad,

c/o SARPV, House 3/8, Block F, Lalmatia,

P.O. & P.S.- Mohammadpur

Dhaka 1207, Bangladesh

Fax: (8802) 8119774 (attn.: Panos)

Email: panosbangladesh@...

nahar@...

mayeen@...

Note: Telephonic enquiries will not be encouraged. Only selected candidates will

be notified.

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

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.

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.

Anushree Mishra

E-mail: <anushreemishra@...>