In addition to working on projects and with partners throughout Senegal, ACI works throughout Africa. The following are a few examples of ACI projects beyond the borders of Senegal.

We have conducted HIV and Development training for government, civil society and the private sector in Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Togo. For more information on our Advocacy and Policy Initiatives, click here.

In partnership with USAID, we organized and managed a Mobile Task Team to assist ministries of education in West Africa with integrating HIV into program planning and management. MTT/West developed support programs for ministries of education in Benin, Guinea, Mali, and Senegal, and published A Guide to Financial and Technical Resources, available to the Education Sector in Senegal, Mali, Guinea and Ghana. For more information on our work on HIV/AIDS and Education, click here.

Working With African Media on Coverage of HIV/AIDS and Other Health Issues

A Few Examples:

Since 1996, ACI has brought together senior-level journalists and communications experts from Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Mauritania for a series of innovative workshops on reproductive health issues.

We helped organize a series of National Workshops on Reproductive Health issues for about 30 in-country Editors-in-Chief in Mali, Burkina Faso and Senegal in 2000 and 2001.

In 2002, ACI organized a weeklong, intensive workshop in Uganda on Women and HIV/AIDS for women editors and journalists from countries in East and Southern Africa.

From 2006 through 2008, the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) supported a series of activities by ACI to «Strengthen the Capacity of Journalists on HIV/AIDS in West Africa». ACI organized two francophone West African workshops to raise awareness and train representatives of schools of journalism and media regulatory agencies. Following the workshops, ACI trainers visited 18 schools in seven participating countries, resulting in the introduction of HIV/AIDS curricula in journalism schools across the region.

For more examples and details on our work to improve media coverage of health issues in Africa, click here.

In addition, thousands of individuals from over 80 countries have learned to speak a new language at the ACI Baobab Center.

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