The statistics are well known – and devastating. According to figures from UNAIDS for the end of 2003, sub-Saharan Africa accounts for about 70 percent of the world’s HIV/AIDS infection, 25 million of the 37.8 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. African girls and women are particularly vulnerable to HIV infection. Women are about half of all people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide, but in sub-Saharan Africa women are 58 percent of the people living with HIV/AIDS. Young women aged 15 to 24 were 2.5 times more likely to be infected than young men.*

[Deadline for Health: The Media’s Response to Covering HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria in Africa]

Reporting on HIV: A Resource Guide

Get the latest information about HIV/AIDS in Africa. The AWMC's Reporting on HIV/AIDS: A Resource Guide includes information on international organizations, U.S. government agencies, African-based healthcare and advocacy organizations and Internet forums concerned with the disease.

[Reporting on HIV: A Resource Guide]

Women Meeting the Challenge: A Handbook for Media Leadership

Women Meeting the Challenge: A Handbook for Media Leadership is filled with practical solutions to the barriers that hold women back from reaching their leadership potential.

While this book is for women, about women and by women, it also is a tool that should be shared with everyone in the newsroom. It is a means by which to change the leadership roles of women in their media houses.

[Women Meeting the Challenge: A Handbook for Media Leadership]

Resource Directory for African Women Journalists

The African Women's Media Center (AWMC) is pleased to issue this Resource Directory for African Women Journalists. As the only comprehensive guide of its kind, this directory lists a host of resources critical to women seeking to strengthen their skills as journalists and to enhance their professional standing within the media.

[Resource Directory for African Women Journalists]