General Information |
| Organization Type - Primary: |
Non-Governmental Organization |
| Organization Type - Secondary: |
Other Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) |
| Is your organization legally registered in your country: |
Yes |
| Organization Reach: |
International |
| Organization Description: |
The Panos Global AIDS Programme (GAP) is a network programme of seven independent autonomous Panos Institutes which work in North America, Caribbean, Europe, Central, Eastern, Southern and West Africa and South Asia. Panos GAP has an unparalleled record in raising awareness of, promoting discussion around, and stimulating a response to the social causes and consequences of the AIDS epidemic, particularly as it affects the developing world.The Panos AIDS Programme has provided significant inputs in approaches such as : UNAIDS Communications Framework for HIV and AIDS (1999); the work of the Rockefeller Foundation Communication for Social Change (CSC) network and the allied work of the Communication Initiative (www.comminit.com), and more recently in the first World Congress on Communication for Development in October 2006. We work with a number of partners to strengthen the theoretical basis of HIV communication approaches that adequately address social context and the complexity of social change, and also seek to address some of the barriers to practical implementation. Panos GAP also promotes debate and reflection among communication practitioners and broker linkages with those responsible for funding and developing HIV programming, to ensure that inclusive communication approaches inform and are mainstreamed into programmes and projects on the ground.
Through its twenty years of work with the media each Panos office is recognised in its region for its training and high standards of its media outputs. This work with the media has also helped us to understand the needs of the media to enhance the coverage of development issues, challenges posed by the changing media environments and some ways of overcoming these challenges. Panos GAP uses this understanding of the media as a profession and independent sector to promote debate and dialogue on crucial HIV and AIDS issues, in particular through working to strengthen the capacity of journalists. |
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| Total number of staff in your organization: |
6 - 10 |
| Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: |
6 - 10 |
| Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: |
6 - 10 |
| Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: |
26 - 50 |
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| What is your organization's annual budget (USD) dedicated to TB? |
$25,000-$100,000 |
| How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: |
Involvement in TB control provision |
| Why do you wish join the Stop TB Partnership: |
Involvement in Stop TB Working Groups |
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| Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: |
No |
| Are you in contact with your national TB programme: |
Yes |
| Please tell us how your organization is contributing to your country's national TB control plan: |
| The Director of the Panos Global AIDS Programme is the member of the South and South East Asian WHO Regional Office's Technical Working Group on TB and in that capacity advices and provides technical assistance to strengthen the TB communication (including media) plan of the South and South East Asian countries. Additionaly, Panos Institutes in Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, Caribbean and South Asia facilitate networking between the media and the national programmes to highlight the successes, challenges faced and key advocacy issues of the national TB programmes. |
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Geographical Reach |
| Which country is your headquarters located in: |
Haiti |
| Which WHO region is the main focus of your work: |
African |
Which countries do you do operate in:
(This includes countries you are conducting activities in) |
Canada
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