A Media Handbook for HIV Vaccine Trials for Africa (UNAIDS, 2001, 45 p.): Section 5 - Identifying your public and partners: Human rights organizations

A Media Handbook for HIV Vaccine Trials for Africa (UNAIDS, 2001, 45 p.)

Section 5 - Identifying your public and partners

		(introduction...)
		The media, editorialists and opinion-shapers
		The scientific community
		HIV/AIDS organizations
		Women's groups
		Student groups
		Human rights organizations
		Vaccine trial workers (primary and secondary)
		Religious organizations
		Traditional authorities
		Community-based organizations (CBOs)
		Policy makers

Human rights organizations

The leaders of various local human/civil rights organizations can be very important and useful allies. Any miscommunication from them, regarding the vaccine trial, will prove disastrous.