Community Media/KCOMNET/HIVAIDS for CR

OBJECTIVES

 * 1) Understand HIV and AIDS: how it impacts on you and the society
 * 2) Improve your technical grasp of HIV and AIDS related issues
 * 3) Understand how radio can be useful in the fight against HIV and AIDS
 * 4) Improve (sanitize) your language during HIV and AIDS reporting

EXPECTATIONS

 * 1) New knowledge and skills to deal with HIV and AIDS.
 * 2) Knowledge and skills on sustainability of community media
 * 3) Participants to appreciated creativity in community broadcasting.
 * 4) Sharing experiences on coverage of HIV and AIDS.
 * 5) Learn to package relevant HIV and AIDS information.
 * 6) Learn interviewing skills on HIV and AIDS (Infected and Affected).
 * 7) Be able to handle challenges of HIV and AIDS reporting.
 * 8) Learn to produce documentaries on HIV and AIDS.
 * 9) Learn to strengthen community radio participation in reporting HIV and AIDS issues.
 * 10) Sustainability in HIV and AIDS programming.
 * 11) Operations of different community radios.
 * 12) Gender perspectives in HIV and AIDS related programming.

LANGUAGE/TERMINOLOGY IN HIV AND AIDS REPORTING

 * Clear information presented in appropriate format and language ensures effective communication
 * HIV/AIDS awareness in the general population is limited, often with inaccurate information.
 * Journalists should understand common medical terms, scientific fact and statistics to ensure accurate reporting.
 * This enables the journalist to:
 * Conduct research
 * Interpret data
 * Ask the right questions

Appropriate Language
Journalists should:
 * use language that does not victimize
 * Is Value neutral, gender sensitive and empowers
 * Utilizes appropriate HIV&AIDS terminologies, for the right audience
 * Uses descriptive terms that are preferred by the audience
 * Depending on the audience, avoid using acronyms
 * AIDS is the later stage of a HIV infected individual, when one’s immune response is highly compromised and hence vulnerable to Opportunistic infections (OIs)

Persuasion

 * 1) Use of credible source such as experts, people like us (PLU), this are people the audience can identify with, celebrities and role models, community leaders/opinion leaders.
 * 2) An appropriate emotional appeal:
 * One should be able to assess how our credible source will make our audience feel. Presenter should evoke emotion from target audience
 * View idea in a logical manner or sequence
 * Explore probable angles to attack the subject
 * Point out the weak areas

RADIO FORMATS
1. Magazine (Presenter(s) linking different items)


 * News
 * Variety
 * Sports

2. Interviews (Person/s being asked questions by another person(s))


 * One on One
 * Celebrities
 * Phone-in

3. Testimony (Person/s speaking straight to the audience-unedited)


 * Positive person
 * Witness
 * Experience
 * Spot

4. Drama (A story the audience knows is portrayed of told by actor(s))


 * Soap
 * Comedy
 * Musical
 * Tragedy

5. Report (Single subject explored by reporter/s linking related footage)


 * Feature
 * Spot
 * News
 * On-the-spot/location
 * Sports

6. Montage (Recordings edited to tell a story without a presenter)


 * Documentary
 * Music
 * Interviews

7. Actuality (Unedited live events)
 * Sports
 * Concerts
 * Disaster
 * Launch

8. Discussion (A group of people discussing a subject(s))


 * Open
 * Themed
 * Panel

9. Game (Person(s) playing game)


 * Quiz
 * Competition
 * Debate
 * Phone-in

Use Ingredients of Happiness

 * Balance
 * Optimism
 * Loving relationship
 * Inner peace
 * Sense of purpose
 * Health

Assignment for groups attending workshop in Ivory Coast

 * Discuss issues and problems related to HIV and AIDS affecting your communities and carry out the following activities:


 * 1) Identify 5 themes
 * 2) Identify issues to be covered in each of the selected themes
 * 3) Discuss probable formats
 * 4) List possible content providers


 * Prepare a document, which you shall use to sell your program idea to colleagues back at your station and probable sponsors.
 * Select one of the identified themes and produce a 15 mins program that consists of the following formats:-


 * 1) Interviews
 * 2) Report
 * 3) Testimony
 * 4) Actuality

NB: Use Material recorded from both outside and inside the studio