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Training on Tuberculosis Reporting

27 October, 2021 - 28 October, 2021

Training onTuberculosis Reporting

Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s top infectious killer. In 2017, 10 million people became ill with the disease and 1.6 million died. Each year, more than 3 million people with TB are left behind without effective treatment. Drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) is a public health crisis and a health security risk in many countries. Yet only one in seven people with DR-TB are being treated today. The global rate of decline of TB incidence—2% on average—is far short of targets established in WHO’s End TB Strategy. At the current rate of progress, the world will not be able to end TB align with the Sustainable Development Goals 2030.

Cambodia is one of the 30 high TB burden countries with an estimated TB incidence of 287 out of every 100,000 populations and the mortality case is 17 out of 100,000 populations. These data have shown the decreased comparing to 2019 in which the incident rate was 302 out of 100,000. Annually, National Center for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control (CENAT) has notified and reported approximately 30,000 TB cases under TB care, diagnosis, and treatment services nationwide. For example, in 2018 there were 28,464 TB notifications while in 2019 there were 30,148 and 28,757 in 2020, which is lower than the TB reported and notified case in 2019.

It is the time to call for immediate action to end TB, especially the key actors or influencing factors such as celebrities and journalists. They are not just to get engaged in TB-related platforms, but they need to take leading roles for TB interventions implementation such as key messages dissemination, advocacy efforts and joint hands for resources mobilization in TB works.

In addressing this particular public health issues, there is a need to widely involve from key partners and stakeholders including journalists and celebrities. While seeing less participation of these influencing factors and persons, CamboJA and KHANA have developed a joint workplan at aiming to increase meaningful engagement of journalists and play the critical roles in TB awareness raising amongst public and especially the key population. The joint effort will additionally enhance the advocacy initiatives in making sure TB is a top priority in the national health development agenda.

To build journalists’ capacity on TB understanding and awareness which leads to increase active engagement in TB works, CamboJA in consultation with KHANA under the Joint Work Plan on “Strengthening the Engagement of Journalists in TB Education and Advocacy in Cambodia” will organize a training on TB and Media Agent that takes place on 27-28 October 2021. The two-day online training will provide a TB development opportunity and space for 20 Cambodian journalists and media professionals especially those covering health beat to enhance their health journalism skills and knowledge of TB and related issues in public health sector.

Main Focuses of the Training

  • Current status of TB in Cambodia and why we have to know about it. These also include the Symptoms, Treatment, Prevention, Vaccine and its related illness.
  • Misconception or myth on TB in the community
  • Case study of TB patient/community leader who were formerly infected with TB
  • Understanding about Multi-sectoral Accountability Framework for TB Response (MAF-TB)
  • Key country targets and commitments on United Nation High Level Meeting on TB (UNHLM-TB) 2023
  • Reporting TB in Cambodia
  • Ethical guidelines for journalists covering health issues

Eligibility Criteria

  • Be a journalist/freelance journalist, citizen journalist, blogger or vlogger or a staff member at a media outlet
  • Have at least one year of work experience in journalism
  • Show a strong interest in producing stories related to health issues
  • Be committed to fully participating in the two-day training

Expected Outcomes

  • Participants will have better understanding about TB and its current status in Cambodia.
  • Participants will understand newsgathering techniques for producing TB-related stories and be able to identify credible news sources for their stories in this topic.
  • Participants will be aware of ethical standards in reporting about TB.
  • The training will also introduce participants to an upcoming opportunity for journalists to compete for TB reporting championship.

 

This online training course will be delivered in Khmer language.

Interested journalists are invited to register via https://forms.office.com/r/1MhZaEqknN

Deadline: 15th October 2021

Female journalists and provincial journalists are strongly encouraged to apply.

For more details, please contact:

Ms. Ly You Y, Capacity Development Manager

[email protected]

010 652 318

Details

Start:
27 October, 2021
End:
28 October, 2021
Event Category:
Online Training