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Revitalizing Health Reporting In Uganda
Knight International has made huge inroads in health coverage in Uganda.
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| Knight Fellow Chris Conte has energized an association of health journalists and helped build a corps of professionals devoted to covering health-related issues. He has mentored journalists at Uganda's largest newspapers, New Vision and The Monitor, to produce more and better stories focusing on the quality of public hospitals and on crippling diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and polio. |
Knight Fellow Chris Conte has pumped new life into an association of health journalists and built a corps of professionals devoted to covering health-related issues. He also has worked with Uganda’s largest newspapers to help reporters and editors produce more and better stories focusing on the latest measures to treat HIV/AIDS and other crippling diseases such as malaria, and drug abuse.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Revived the Uganda Health Communication Alliance (UHCA), now a source for professional development for health journalists. Gained U.S. Embassy financial support for UHCA's work.
- Created the Uganda Health Reporter, a newsletter produced by UHCA members that provides information about new workshops and reports from health experts.
- Helped guide reporting that led the government of Uganda to seek a $100 million World Bank loan, which is expected to win approval later this year.
- Guided reporters in developing sources on stories that led to an unprecedent polio vaccination campaign, the most successful in recent Ugandan history.
UPCOMING WORK
- Coach journalists at the Daily Monitor newspaper to increase coverage of health policy issues in advance of Uganda's March 2011 national elections.
- Help the Uganda Radio Network to strengthen its health reporting, establish a program to provide expert speakers for its radio talk show partners, and find sustainable funding.
- Develop a permanent mentoring program for health and other journalists.
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about the fellow
About the Partner
The Monitor was established in 1992 as an Independent daily Newspaper, and relaunched as Daily Monitor in June 2005.
The New Vision is Uganda's leading media outlet whose goal is to inform, educate and entertain, accurately and openly, for a better world.
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