Key Correspondent Team
The Key Correspondent (KC) Team is a group of country-based writers, capturing and documenting the local realities facing those dealing and living with AIDS and TB on a daily basis. KCs represent the ‘voices’ of various communities, bringing forward the views and needs of people who may have no other way to express their concerns and their own unique perspectives. Supported by ongoing capacity-building in writing and issue-mapping skills, national KCs develop clear national advocacy frameworks, highlighting key issues, monitoring developments and writing articles. The KC team role in the platform is to highlight the needs and issues of those most affected by the epidemics, and to use a plethora of media strategies to widely disseminate these views .
More than 200 KCs provide a global scope of writing on HIV, AIDS, TB and other health and development issues.
As part of the support to HIV/AIDS-related discourse, Health & Development Networks has brought together a team of country-based writers. Written contributions from so-called 'Key Correspondents' stimulate submission of comment and views from other discussion forum members. KCs are selected from diverse countries and communities, as well as varied technical backgrounds and previous exposure to the international HIV/AIDS environment.
KCs contribute summarised perspectives from their own countries and areas of work, based on their own specialized knowledge and experience. Contributions range from subjective views, summaries of strategies and policies, to interviews and site visits with leading local and national people or projects. This helps to encourage other forum members to contribute their own views and integrate developing country-based priorities and perspectives into international discussions.
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Being a KC definitely enhanced my experience of the conference. I am quite certain that I would not have benefited from the conference if I had not registered as a KC… I feel really proud of what I managed to accomplish in those four days for the KC team and for my own. The piece that made it to the front page was a real honour - and much more than I expected to achieve as a KC - Thanks.
- Karen Michaels, South Africa
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