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The Foundation partners with media organizations and other organizations in both the U.S. and internationally to develop multi-faceted public education campaigns on important health issues. A particular focus of the Foundation’s Entertainment Media Partnerships is on reaching young people with information about HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Our media partnerships combine targeted public service messages with longer-form special programming or editorial and other forms of outreach. Free informational resources are provided through toll-free hotlines…

The Cape Town-based HIV/AIDS treatment advocacy group, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), has been awarded the 2003 Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights. TAC is recognized for its historic contribution to advancing the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS and specifically for its contribution to advancing access to treatment for HIV-positive people in South Africa and internationally.

The CA Policy Program hosts an ongoing series of roundtable discussions focusing on key health policy issues facing the state as they emerge. Medicaid Waivers: Lessons from CaliforniaThis roundtable discussion, hosted by the Foundation and the University of California, Berkeley Center for Health and Public Policy Studies, provided an overview of current Section 1115 waiver activity across the states, focusing on Health Insurance Flexibility and Accountability (HIFA) Initiative waiver efforts. Findings from recent studies of…

The fifth in a series of fact sheets on topics related to children, media and health pulls together the most relevant research that has been conducted about the impact of news on children, in times of war and in times of relative peace. The fact sheet explores how children reacted to televised accounts of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, as well as the Oklahoma City bombing, and the 1991 Persian Gulf War. It also includes…

: John Cutter, freelance health/aging writer, St. Petersburg, FL Robert Davis, medical and science writer, USA Today Fred de Sam Lazaro, correspondent, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer; executive producer; KTCA-Twin Cities Public Television, St. Paul, MN Mason Essif, segment producer, HealthWeek-PBS, Washington, DC Don Finley, science, medicine and environment editor, The San Antonio Express-News Merrill Goozner, freelance journalist and associate professor of journalism, New York University Andrew Julien, health/medical writer, The Hartford Courant Madge Kaplan,…

New voluntary court system helps mentally ill inmates get their lives back on track 11/24/2002 Jenni BergalReprinted with permission of Sun Sentinel It's lunchtime in Room 510 of the Broward County Courthouse, and the judge is clearly worried about the disheveled prisoner with matted hair and glassy eyes sitting shackled before her. The man has been languishing in the county jail for days on a minor trespassing charge. He's a schizophrenic and alcoholic who says…

Prior to 2003, travel and research grants were awarded to print and broadcast journalists and editors to report on health policy and public health issues for publication/broadcast. For details of the mini-fellowship awards for 1997-2001, see below. Click here to see Mini-Fellows' Work Fourteen journalists were awarded Kaiser Media Mini-Fellowships in 2001/2002, to research and report on the following issues: Constance Alexander, freelance writer and independent producer, WKMS-FM: End-of-life issues in rural western Kentucky.Jenni Bergal,…

Program on Public Health Information and Partnerships The Foundation's Program on Public Health Information and Partnerships serves as a resource for the public and media on public health issues. A particular focus is on reaching young people with information about reproductive and sexual health issues, such as HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, contraception and unintended pregnancy. Other recent public education campaigns have addressed parent-child communication, raised awareness about the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)…

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Health Care in Cuba By Mason Essif April 21 - May 2, 2001 For ten days the six Fellows of the 2000/2001 Kaiser Media Fellowship program explored and evaluated the health care system of Cuba. They met with doctors, nurses, administrators, experts and government officials. The topics ranged from housing conditions to mental health and from STD/HIV prevention to cardiac surgery. While most of the time was spent in…