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Students in J460 Reporting HIV/AIDS in Kenya have posted their in-depth articles online. They spent more than two weeks working in Eldoret, Kenya.

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Students who spent three weeks in Kenya reporting on the HIV/AIDS epidemic have posted their projects online.

The J460 Reporting HIV/AIDS in Kenya produced in-depth feature stories and multimedia projects based on their reporting in Eldoret, Kenya, with journalism students at nearby Moi University. The student teams worked closely with professionals and volunteers at the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH), a healthcare partnership between the medical schools at IU and Moi University.

Associate professor Jim Kelly, who led the class for the second year, prepared students by inviting medical experts and people familiar with AMPATH to talk to the students during the first weeks of the class. Once in Eldoret, they paired with Moi students, who are familiar with the area and served as translators at times.

The teams reporting on topics such as HIV’s effects on schools and children, the stigma and cultural effects of HIV/AIDS and the many programs AMPATH offers to respond to the epidemic in Kenya.

The students also blogged while in Kenya, often discussing the culture shock and struggles to reconcile what they were seeing with their desire to help. The blogs still are available in the site’s archives.

More:

• Read the students’ stories at the website.
• Check out a press release on the stories from the IU News Room.
• See a WTIU News Break on YouTube that reports on the class.

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