UNESCO workshop for media on culture, gender and human rights at the International AIDS Conference

On 6 August UNESCO provided a skills building session on

“Professional media coverage: culture, gender and human rights in HIV and AIDS reporting”

at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City (Mexico).

The session aimed to strengthen the capacity of those accredited journalists covering the event, to produce accurate, culturally relevant, human rights-based and gender-sensitive HIV and AIDS media coverage which adequately reflects the voices of communities that are most affected. The skills building session was co-facilitated by UNESCO, INTERNEWS and the Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS.