Blog posts by year and monthMay 2016
Posts (5)
Tikambe: Let’s talk about sex
A new TV show is tackling the topic of teenage pregnancy in Zambia by featuring strong women and powerful personal stories.
Sharing stories from the World Humanitarian Summit
"Not a pair of muddy boots in sight!", BBC Media Action Director Caroline Nursey on the World Humanitarian Summit, and how media can help the 130 million people currently in need of humanitarian assistance.
Using radio to tackle stigma and pain
Alice Mbelwa looks at how a radio show helped a woman in Tanzania free herself from the stigma and pain associated with obstetric fistula, a condition caused by complications during childbirth.
Gambo, the radio show superfan
How a radio show’s ultimate fan is helping improve maternal health in Nigeria.
A brush with Somalia’s people smugglers
BBC Media Action’s radio show illustrates the realities of illegal migration through drama. Exploitation by people-smugglers in Somalia is an ever-present threat, as Mohammed A. Gaas discovered.
