Media Fellowship for Reporting on TB 2022

Job Description

Title: Media Fellowship for Reporting on TB 2022

Company Name: icddr,b

Vacancy: Not specific

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Employment Status: Contractual

Job Context:
∎ Introduction:
∎ USAID`s Alliance for Combating TB in Bangladesh is a four-year implementation project which is mplemented by an icddr,b-led consortium. The project aims to increase tuberculosis (TB) case detection rates to 90% and to sustain a treatment success rate of more than 90% in the project areas by the end of the project timeline. The project will achieve its goal through the project objectives to effectively integrate TB diagnosis, anagement, prevention, and control services in the existing TB care platforms, and increase access to people-centered TB services in the selected intervention areas, addressing gender as a cross-cutting issue.
∎ Media fellowship:
∎ Journalists can play an important role in developing community awareness and reducing the stigma of a disease. The "USAID`s Alliance for Combating TB in Bangladesh Media Fellowship for Reporting on TB 2022" offers a unique opportunity to those journalists who wish to explore TB-related issues in the country through their activities. Through this fellowship, USAID`s Alliance for Combating TB in Bangladesh will identify a pool of journalists, and orient them on diverse TB issues in order to address the matters related to the diagnosis, treatment and management of all forms of TB; get enough attention from policymakers to address the challenges engulfing the TB field; raise public awareness on TB; and reduce TB-related stigma. It will also support journalists with the potential and on a trajectory to become future leaders in the field of TB reporting. Fellows will have the opportunity to learn from leading experts, gain valuable field experience and see first-hand how TB interventions are developed and implemented.
∎ Number of fellowships:
∎ USAID`s Alliance for Combating TB in Bangladesh will award up to 15 fellowships for 3 months (November 2022 - January 2023) through a competitive selection process conducted by a review committee.

Salary:
∎ Financial support: During the three-month fellowship period, each fellow will receive BDT 20,000 (Twenty Thousand Taka) per month as support towards related travel and research expenses for developing monthly stories as requirement of the fellowship.

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 2 Oct 2022

Company Information:
∎ 21 Sep 2022
∎ icddr,b
∎ Business : icddr,b is a Bangladesh-based international health research institute that strives to solve key public health problems through high-quality scientific research and innovation. Policy-makers and practitioners utilize our evidence and expertise to improve health outcomes and prevent premature death and disability worldwide. Established more than 50 years ago, we continue to provide life-saving services to the people of Bangladesh, and to nurture the next generation of global health leaders.

Category: NGO/Development

Source: bdjobs.com

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