Blog posts by year and monthNovember 2015
Posts (7)
HIV and AIDS: A global health success story?
On World AIDS Day, our senior health advisor explains how media and communications has helped tackle HIV and AIDS in Nigeria.
Open Jirga: national identity in Afghanistan
When a TV debate show was filmed at the tomb of one of Afghanistan’s founding fathers it was clear how much a sense of ‘place’ is interlinked with ‘identity’. Shirazuddin Siddiqi reflects on an especially memorable Open Jirga.
Love9: Cambodia’s youth show returns
The writer and director of Love9, our TV show addressing sexual health in Cambodia, presents the launch of the programme’s second series.
From "gangster" to grocer
Hoda Hersi tells the story of Abaas, from Mogadishu whose life was transformed after listening to a radio drama storyline about migration.
Myanmar elections: using media to inform and empower
How a youth radio show and journalism training have been giving people a voice in the run-up to this month’s historic polls.
Love in the time of Ebola
BBC Media Action’s US Director on the challenge of prioritising and measuring the intangible in global health crises.
“If you can’t be a father, I beg you Mr President, be a stepfather!”
Three years after its launch, Shirazuddin Siddiqi reflects on how Afghanistan’s TV debate show Open Jirga continues to provide a voice to Afghans amid insecurity and increased uncertainty.
