Name of person responsible / Facilitator Esther Nakkazi Café Name/Title Basics of HIV reporting: Key issues in HIV prevention that journalists need to know and report about Location Mbarara-Uganda Date café held August 28, 2017 Café objectives (The learning objectives should be tailored for each specific café) • This is the first of several…
ACTIVITY REPORT Facilitator: Esther Nakkazi Implementing Partner: Health Journalists Network in Uganda (HEJNU) Reporting period: March 2016 HEJNU: Undertake behavioral change communication / Menstrual Hygiene ACTIVITY: Science café to facilitate dissemination of information concerning Menstrual Hygiene to the public through various media houses. ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION: This activity was a science café held as…
Name of person responsible /Facilitator: Esther Nakkazi Café Name/Title: HIV Prevention Sponsor: AVAC Organized: Health Journalists Network in Uganda Speaker’s names: Dr. Emmanuel Mugisa HIV – PMTCT Coordinator; Baylor Uganda Kakwezi Henry, Nurse, Kagote Health Center III Katusabe Beatrice; User, Kagote Health Center III Date Cafe held: June 21, 2018 Café objectives (The learning objectives…
Name of person responsible /Facilitator Esther Nakkazi Café Name/Title The proposed introduction of the Panty Condom and HIV prevention Location Kampala, Uganda Date café held January 24, 2018 Café objectives (The learning objectives should be tailored for each specific café) • To introduce the journalists to the proposed panty condoms as one of the…
Facilitator Esther Nakkazi CaféTitle/ Topic PrEP and Microbicides: ARV-based prevention technologies in the wake of the CROI results and the implications for HIV prevention worldwide. Location Kampala, Uganda CaféObjectives ·To provide journalists with updates on the latest developments in research on microbicides and other…
Facilitator Esther Nakkazi Location Kampala, Uganda Café topic Medical Male circumcision as an HIV prevention tool. How much progress have we made? Café Objectives ·To provide a platform for engagement between key journalists and biomedical HIV prevention scientists, program implementers, advocates, policymakers etc.in Uganda ·To…
The government’s endless efforts to uplift the living standards of poor people as a way to drive out poverty, through development funded programs to all categories of people seem futile. “Government has tried to invest in different groups like Entandikwa, youth livelihoods, NAADs, PMA, Nusaf 1 and others however the money from grants hasn’t made…
Facilitator Esther Nakkazi (Health Journalists Network In Uganda) Location Kampala, Uganda Café topic HIV prevention and research updates First café of 2017 and Participation · This is the first Science Café held by the Health Journalists Network In Uganda in partnership with AVAC…
Montreal, September 14, 2017 – Journalists based in Africa suffered from a lack of credible information during the West African Ebola viral epidemic in 2014, states a report published today by the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) in partnership with the Department of Journalism at Concordia University. “The report concludes that if better communication…
Are Ugandan Road Accident Deaths On The Rise? The Ministry of Transport and police disagree about whether increasing numbers of people are dying on Ugandan roads. We check the facts. Uganda’s Ministry of Works and Transport claims in its 2016/17 Annual Report that 9,572 people died in road accidents in the country over the past three years.…