New Vision, MPs to recognise HIV/AIDS prevention role models
Aug 16, 2009
THE Vision Group and the parliamentary standing committee will recognise role models in the HIV/AIDS prevention.
By Nicholas Kajoba
THE Vision Group and the parliamentary standing committee will recognise role models in the HIV/AIDS prevention.
The role models will be recognised during the parliamentary HIV prevention annual awards that will be given as part of the World AIDS Day celebrations on December 1 of every year.
President Yoweri Museveni is expected to be this year’s chief guest when the winners will be receiving their awards.
The winners will also receive sh1m each.
The three month partnership campaign was launched on Friday at The New Vision headquarters in Kampala.
The committee chairperson, Beatrice Rwakimari, said the project aimed at enhancing the prevention of HIV.
“The public will be invited to nominate persons they regard as their role models in positive prevention, abstinence, fidelity, and leadership in HIV prevention at the local level,†she said.
The public will send their nominations to the New Vision Publishing Company on P O Box 9815 Kampala or through upcountry agents, Rwakimari added.
Vision Group advertising manager Godfrey Mulengi said they would run adverts in The New Vision, Etop, Rupiny, Bukedde and Orumuri and on radios (Vision Voice, Radio West, Bukedde FM, Etop Radio and Rupiny) calling for nominations.
Mulengi said credible stories of role models would be published in The New Vision and its sister papers.
He added that a panel of stakeholders from the media, Parliament, civil society, and faith-based organisations, would review the stories and choose the winners.
THE Vision Group and the parliamentary standing committee will recognise role models in the HIV/AIDS prevention.
The role models will be recognised during the parliamentary HIV prevention annual awards that will be given as part of the World AIDS Day celebrations on December 1 of every year.
President Yoweri Museveni is expected to be this year’s chief guest when the winners will be receiving their awards.
The winners will also receive sh1m each.
The three month partnership campaign was launched on Friday at The New Vision headquarters in Kampala.
The committee chairperson, Beatrice Rwakimari, said the project aimed at enhancing the prevention of HIV.
“The public will be invited to nominate persons they regard as their role models in positive prevention, abstinence, fidelity, and leadership in HIV prevention at the local level,†she said.
The public will send their nominations to the New Vision Publishing Company on P O Box 9815 Kampala or through upcountry agents, Rwakimari added.
Vision Group advertising manager Godfrey Mulengi said they would run adverts in The New Vision, Etop, Rupiny, Bukedde and Orumuri and on radios (Vision Voice, Radio West, Bukedde FM, Etop Radio and Rupiny) calling for nominations.
Mulengi said credible stories of role models would be published in The New Vision and its sister papers.
He added that a panel of stakeholders from the media, Parliament, civil society, and faith-based organisations, would review the stories and choose the winners.