China Issues "Good News" Awards for AIDS Reporting

In the past few days, reporters learned, requests for contributions for the second round of the China AIDS Good News Awards have begun, and country-wide reporters are collecting reports on AIDS.

These awards are given based on a joint decision of the State Council AIDS Prevention and Treatment Working Committee, National Population and Planned Parenthood Committee, Ministry of Health, senior media staff, and expert scholars, and coordinated by the International Media Research Center of Tsinghua University. It is aimed at encouraging Chinese news reporters to pay close attention to HIV/ AIDS patients and to produce honest, factual, objective, and balanced news reports.

It is designed so that there are 2 first-place winners, 3 second-place winners, and 5 third-place winners, and 1 winner of a special prize. News reports from September 30, 2006 until September 30, 2007 from the central news agencies; publications with the same official registration number under the scope of the production-construction corps of each province, autonomous region, municipality, and Xinjiang; and from TV and radio stations and websites that have already received formal approval are all fair game. The awards ceremony and the second session of the China Health Propaganda Conference will be held at Qinghua University on November 10th and 11th, 2007.

The last date for submission is October 15th, 2007. All reprints please send an original copy via express mail to: Beijing Qinghua University Hongmeng Lou (Xi Lou), room 307. Please send electronic copies to: xiaoll06@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn; wangxiaopei@tsinghua.edu.cn.