AfricaVox 2007: Collins Vumiria | Uganda

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Collins Vumiria | Uganda

Collins is chief news editor of Radio West in Mbarara, Uganda.

She began her reporting career as a parliamentary correspondent with Radio Uganda, and now specialises in environment and health journalism, with an emphasis on TB and HIV/AIDS.

In 2006 she received a US Embassy/Eastern Africa Media Institute radio reporting award for a feature on factory pollution. She is currently undertaking a Panos/StopTB fellowship, and is a member of the Uganda Media Women’s Association.

Collins says:

"I would like to see a corruption-free Uganda, in which resources allocated to the health sector are used for that purpose. I would also like to see everyone living with HIV/AIDS - including children – able to access treatment, together with improved nutrition."

Collins on AfricaVox:

> Hard labour: stopping HIV in its tracks
> What news do I take home for my people?
> Why women’s silence kills
> Uganda's debts cancelled but health workers "don't see the change"
> A serious party with the anarchists at Camp Rostock
> Being truly educated goes beyond writing your name
> The DDT debate: to spray or not to spray?

AfricaVox 2007

This blog was written by a team of African journalists, who worked with Panos London to report from the 2007 G8 Summit in Germany.

Our G8 reporters

Tigist Kassa
Ethiopian radio journalist specialising in HIV/AIDS
Kakaire Kirunda
Bureau chief for Uganda’s Monitor newspapers
Richard M Kavuma
Senior reporter with Uganda's Weekly Observer
Thabo Mabaso
Reporter for South African newspaper, The Independent
William Mapote
Journalist with Mozambique's KFM/KTV
Zinhle Mapumulo
Health and news reporter for the Sowetan
Abebe Teshager
Ethiopian radio journalist specialising in HIV/AIDS
Collins Vumiria
Chief news editor of Uganda's Radio West
Francisco Xerinda
Deputy editor of Mozambique’s Savana newspaper

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"As a woman I demand my national government and the G8 to make their efforts more sensitive and responsive to women's problems..." Metsehate

"The Rostock scene was not different from a scene in Uganda's Kampala or Zimbabwe's Harare..." Omar Kalinge-Nnyago

"It is a mistake to consider the protesters as a 'leftist' homogenous block as there are many differences in their ideologies and approaches to protest" Julia

"Environmentalists will always protect their side of the story but what Uganda needs today is to protect the lives and health of their citizens" Francis Mutazindwa

"If you have lived and worked here in Germany for any considerable time... you would know that this is a typical view of Afrika portrayed by the Axel Springer Verlag's newspapers for decades..." BRE

"What's the harm in reporting both sides? The point is that there is a lot of good, positive news in Africa. Choosing to focus [only] on the bad, just shows a hopeless continent..." Roselyn Mungai

"The question we have to ask Geldof is... after taking/viewing the image how did you change the situation of the young kid?" Reuben Gitahi

"Why do we continue to perpetuate the need to say Africa when the differences across this vast continent are so large?" Paul Crook

"Malaria is not just a health problem - it is an economic problem as well..." Damas Ogwe

"I would have agreed with your comments [about Geldof's choice of photo] if only things were that simple..." T McOwiti

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