Media Cafe to Promote Pandemic Reporting
AVAC's vision is for a world without AIDS and with global health equity.
LILONGWE, Malawi- Journalists Association Against AIDS (JournAIDS) in partnership with AVAC, a U.S.-based global advocacy organization, will on Friday host a Media Science Café in Lilongwe to promote science communication and reporting on COVID-19 and pandemic preparedness and prevention in the country, writes Alinafe Nyanda.
"Journalists will be equipped with knowledge and techniques on reporting pandemics," said JournAIDS Programme Manager Dingani Mithi on Wednesday while confirming the development.
According to Mithi, journalists will learn about preparedness for the next pandemic in terms of diagnostics, vaccines and the need to enhance sharing of knowledge around genetic sequencing for variants that forms an essential part of pandemic preparedness.
Speakers during the café include Pearson M'modzi, a senior community research officer at UNC Project Lilongwe who has been working in research since 2005, and Reverend Alfred Mphote, an accomplished health advocate, HIV trainer and counselor and faith leader.
AVAC's vision is for a world without AIDS and with global health equity.
Its mission is to accelerate the ethical development of effective HIV prevention options and ensure access to those options for everyone who needs them as part of a comprehensive and integrated path to global health equity.