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About the Global Media AIDS Initiative The Global Media AIDS Initiative (GMAI) — www.thegmai.org — is founded on the principle that media represents a formidable ally in any effort to address HIV/AIDS. Launched in January 2004 at an historic meeting at U.N. headquarters of top media executives from around the globe, the GMAI was conceived and organized by the Kaiser Family Foundation and UNAIDS to mobilize and leverage the vast resources of the world's leading media companies to…

It's Your (Sex) Life Awards 2010 Web Health Award for GYT: Get Yourself Tested 2009 Beacon Award for New Media Campaign - GYT: Get Yourself Tested 2009 Beacon Award for New Media Campaign - Pos or Not 2009 Joel A. Berger Award for GYT: Get Yourself Tested 2008 Emmy Nomination for A: Minute Contest 2007 Emmy Award for Marvelyn series PSAs That Night, Finding Out, and Denial 2007 Emmy Award for think HIV broadband campaign…

The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism conducted this study of how the U.S. news media covered health issues over an 18-month period from January 2007 through June 2008. The study finds that news about health and health care made up less than four percent (3.6%) of all news content from January 2007 through June 2008. The study also examines the type of health coverage in the news,…

International Health Journalism Fellowship Project: Kaiser/CNN Awards for Excellence in HIV Reporting in Africa About The Award Since 2006, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and CNN/MultiChoice have teamed up to offer the Kaiser/CNN Award for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Reporting in Africa. The award, presented as part of the prestigious CNN/MultiChoice African Journalist Awards, is part of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s global effort to increase and sustain media coverage of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, to improve…

Television as a Health Educator: A Case Study of Grey’s Anatomy In order to document how well viewers learn health information from entertainment television, the Foundation worked with writers at Grey’s Anatomy to embed a health message in an episode, and then surveyed viewers on the topic before and after the episode aired. The study included three national random-digit-dial telephone surveys of regular viewers of the show, conducted one week before, one week after, and…

International Health Journalism Fellowship Project: Russia/Ukraine Recent Project Events 2007 Kyiv, Ukraine, Training program – On the Frontline of an Epidemic: Reporting on HIV/AIDS in Mass Media, April 2007 (.pdf) Kyiv, Ukraine, Reporting on ARV- treatment in Mass Media, March 2007 (.pdf) 2006 Moscow, Russia, Training for Journalists and Representatives of AIDS-service Organizations, November 2006 (.pdf) Kyiv, Ukraine, Journalism Training Workshop in the Coverage of HIV/AIDS, June 2006 (.pdf) Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, HIV/AIDS Reporting in Mass…