i choose

...a California Immunization Coalition campaign to validate and encourage the decision to immunise. The statewide campaign uses the pictures and voices of local advocates to promote immunisation, reflecting the choice to vaccinate as a social norm in the United States...

Lessons Learned from SIAs: Magnification of the Opportunities and Risks to Routine Immunization Programmes

...lessons learned from measles and rubella (MR) supplemental immunisation activities (SIAs) in the WHO European Region in 2008. The author demonstrates that opportunities and risks to routine immunisation programmes, including the introduction of new vaccines, are magnified during SIAs...

Children in Media

Facing the Challenge: Children’s Rights and Human Development in Latin American News Media

...presents a communication for development approach originally implemented by ANDI, along with discussion of the contributions of news media to strengthening democracy and protecting and promoting the rights of children. ANDI defines its model using the term "social technologies", which are replicable products, techniques, or methodologies developed through close interaction with communities and which embody effective solutions for social change...

Oscar van Leer Fellowship

...fellowships are open to journalists interested in covering stories about children in nine regions where the Bernard van Leer Foundation funds projects for disadvantaged young children: Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, the Caribbean, and the Indian region of Orissa. The fellowship consists of a four-week, expenses-paid training course in The Netherlands on journalism and children's issues. Deadline is August 18 2009...