TAMWA continued to address HIV/AIDS infection from gender- based violence point of view. Our programme aimed at creating awareness on the need to fight violence against women and children and mitigating HIV/AIDS stigma by promoting Voluntary Counseling Testing and greater involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) in the campaign against the pandemic. The activities conducted such as PLWHAs declaring their status publicly through multi-media campaigns contributed a lot in creating awareness on gender violence and HIV/AIDS. Furthermore people understood more on the difference between living with HIV and suffering from AIDS as well as .the need to protect the rights of PLWHAs without undermining the drive to ensure greater involvement of PLWHAs in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

This awareness was created through:

• 52 special quarter an hour Radio Programmed titled KIOO broadcast by the country's widely heard radio: Radio Tanzania Dar es salaam on Sundays from 6.45 pm. Also there were nine regular programmes aired by Radio Tumaini, Radio One and Radio Uhuru.

• 359 articles, 100 pictures, 24 cartoons, 14 poems, 13 editorials and 11 letters were published by Mwananchi, Uhuru, Mtanzania, Nipashe, Daily News, The Guardian, Rai, Taifa Letu, Alasiri, Fukuto, Kasheshe, Majira, Family Mirror, The Express, The Financial Times, Business Times and the Guardian.

• Seventeen TV programmes were produced as well as six TV spots.

Training and outreach programmes organised under this programme resulted into:

• 27 journalists - 14 women and 13 men trained on how best to report gender violence and HIV/AIDS related issues.

• 17 media decision makers (editors) were sensitised n the need to put HIV/AIDS and gender violence into their newsroom daily agenda.

• 22 Youth religious leaders were equipped with the skills on how to identify gender violence and how they can mobilise youths in their groups to fight gender violence and HIV/AIDS.