A team of journalists under Abasirwa association will now start posting stories on the association’s website concerning HIV/AIDS awareness and other health related stories.
Over 200 journalists met for a two-day workshop aimed at building capacity on various ways to report about HIV and how citizens would fight the spread of the virus.
Abasirwa executive secretary Enoc Bahati(below) pointed out that the role of media in fighting the spread of HIV wasn’t well utilised yet if well exploited the message would reach many people.
One of the trainers, Sylvie Sargueil encouraged employers of various media houses to conduct in-house training in order to improve their journalists’ delivery.
She however stressed that; the employers ought to offer motivation to reporters who show the will of delivering better and especially those who report on HIV/AIDS awareness.
“According to my personal research, most journalist lack motivation, they are either paid less or are never facilitated to report health issues,” she remarked.
Theo Barasa a journalist at Radio Flash urged his colleagues to be more creative in reporting on matters related to the virus.
“What we hear nowadays has become monotonous; the press should report other things like how does one stay healthy after being infected. Readers would want to know more about which nutrition is better for instance.”
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