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Guidance on HIV/AIDS reporting, from selling a story to your editor to a 'who's who' of the HIV/AIDS world.
PRACTICAL GUIDES | 28 October 2009 | EN
Sensationalism is no substitute for sound science when reporting disease outbreaks, say Fang Xuanchang, Jia Hepeng and Katherine Nightingale.
Guidance on how journalists can help tackle TB through effective, frequent reporting on research, policy and the disease's human toll.
Translating statistics and risk in a readily understandable way is crucial to effective science communication, says Andrew Pleasant.
Our blog, by SciDev.Net columnist Priya Shetty, will fill you in, as will our interview with the Global Forum's Gill Samuels