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Friday, December 1, 2006 - 02:00
> Mekong Turns Around HIV/AIDS

Cambodia: Heated debate in run up to World Aids Day

debate on how to improve news coverage of HIV/AIDS

(Sihanoukville, Cambodia, December 1, 2006). When HIV/AIDS activists encountered news editors in this seaside town at an editors’ workshop recently, there was sometimes heated debate on how to improve news coverage of HIV/AIDS.

The workshop for print and broadcast news editors, “Improving news coverage of HIV/AIDS,” held in Sihanoukville Province November 24-26, was organized as part of Internews Europe’s Mekong regional program funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), A diverse group of Cambodian editors from six newspapers, four radio stations and four magazines debated with six HIV-positive activists representing soldiers, men who have sex with men (MSM) and women including lesbians and sex workers.

Guest speakers from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and Cambodia’s National AIDS Authority (NAA) broadened editors’ understanding of how to cover HIV/AIDS the weekend before World AIDS Day (December 1). A UNAIDS representative cautioned editors to think critically of reports that Cambodia is a “success” in terms of HIV/AIDS due to its alleged reduced prevalence rate. “We have success but it can change any time,” she said, citing the case of Uganda where, after reports of success, the problem is now growing again.

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Lyndal Barry, Mekong Country Director, Internews Europe

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