HIV and AIDS - Communicating about HIV and AIDS in Brazil and Peru
Partners
Healthlink Worldwide has long-standing relationships with both the Brazilian
Interdisciplinary AIDS Association
(ABIA) and
Calandria.
ABIA is a non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in 1986 to take action against the HIV and AIDS epidemic by mobilizing Brazilian society and advocating for the rights of people living with HIV and AIDS. ABIA conducts educational activities, prevention and treatment, and community based interventions. ABIA develops and disseminates information and knowledge on HIV and AIDS, monitors public policies concerning the epidemic such as social and health policies, sexuality, human rights and intellectual property rights.
Calandria is a civil society organisation that uses communication socially, politically, and economically in an effort to impact on Peru's development and to promote democracy by strengthening its institutions. It encourages equal gender opportunity and dialogue among different generations. It also promotes citizen participation and draws attention to the educational role and the social responsibility that the Peru communications media can play in facilitating fair development opportunities.
Main Communication Strategies
Calandria develops training, designs
communication strategies, provides information
and media production services, conducts assessment and orientation on
the use of local media, promotes and legitimises development issues,
and promotes exercising and valuing democracy. It also produces programmes,
radio spots, videos, graphic material, and proposals to influence communicators,
journalists, and communications media, to the end of seeking to consolidate
public spaces for young people to communicate with each other and with
different generations.