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Reproductive Health Training Seminar
for Journalists
Digital Media Kit

The Population Council, in collaboration with the Population Reference Bureau and the National Press Foundation, presented a skill-building workshop to help journalists report on reproductive health issues.

Agenda (more)

Workshop Presentations

  • Richard O. Muga: "Adolescent reproductive health" (presentation)

  • John Skibiak: "New frontiers for emergency contraception in Africa" (presentation)

  • Ayorinde Ajayi: "Reporting on reproductive health in East Africa" (presentation)

  • Sam Thenya: "Sexual violence: The experience of Nairobi Women's Hospital" (presentation)

  • Rosemarie Muganda-Onyando: "Programming for adolescent sexual and reproductive health" (presentation)

  • Nolan Walters: "News and numbers" (presentation)

  • Akin Jimoh: "Reporting on contraception and reproductive health: Practical skills building" (presentation)

  • Nduku Kilonzo: "Sexual violence: What do we really know? What should we know?" (presentation)

  • Rose N. Oronje: "Journalists' resources and research techniques: Getting information from a research institution" (presentation)

Background

  • The Population Council is an international, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that conducts biomedical, social science, and public health research. (Council Key Facts)

  • The Council has worked in Africa for 40 years. (more)

  • The Media Center offers resources and interview opportunities for journalists. (more)

Research Area/Program Overviews

Selected Council Profiles

Related Press Clips

Recent Regional Meetings

  • Research Methods Course in Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV, Johannesburg, South Africa, 17 July–11 August (more)

  • 2nd Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights, Nairobi, Kenya, 19–21 June (more)

  • The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Annual Meeting, Durban, South Africa, 12–15 June (more)

  • Africa Regional Forum on Youth Reproductive Health and HIV,  Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 6–9 June (more)

  • Reaching MDGs (Marginalized and Disadvantaged Girls) to Achieve the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 3–5 May

  • Microbicides 2006, Cape Town, South Africa, 23–26 April (more)

Related News Releases

  • "Dispatches from the front lines of HIV prevention research" (2006) (full text)

  • "Low morale found among South African maternity nurses" (2005) (full text)

  • "'Healing wounds, instilling hope': A Swahili translation of a Council publication on obstetric fistula receives acclaim and media coverage" (2005) (full text)

  • "Jotham Musinguzi, Ugandan public health expert, elected to Population Council Board of Trustees" (2005) (full text)

  • "Peter J. Donaldson, president of the Population Council, to visit Ghana" (2005) (full text)

Collaborators

  • National Press Foundation

  • Population Reference Bureau

Donors

  • The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation

  • The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

  • Compton Foundation, Inc.

  • UNFPA

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11 June 2007


     

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South Africa
Microbicides Trials

Sumentheran N. Govender
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Melissa May, APR
mmay@popcouncil.org
+1 212 339 0525

Diane Rubino
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+1 212 339 0617

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