Fellows & Editors
Jennifer James
- Trip:
- Zambia 2013
- Affiliation:
- Mom Bloggers for Social Good
- Country:
- Zambia
- Year:
- 2013
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Jennifer James is the founder of Mom Bloggers for Social Good, a global coalition of mothers who use social media and blogging for good. An early social media adopter, she was recently named a Fast Company Most Generous Social Media Maven. Her work has been featured by Forbes, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Scientific American, and Fast Company. Named a top Woman Changing the World by SheKnows.com as well as a Blogger Out to Change the World by Water for People, James is a recipient of a National Press Foundation Global Vaccines Press Fellowship and has had her work excerpted on the White House blog. James currently writes for the Gates Foundation’s Impatient Optimists, Huffington Post, and Babble, and has had bylines at USAID, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Healthy Newborn Network, Frontline Health Workers, ONE, and (RED). Jennifer has traveled to Ethiopia with Save the Children to document frontline health workers and to Kenya as a member of the ONE Moms Advisory Council. In 2012, James covered Rio + 20 in Brazil, TEDxChange in Berlin, and the Family Planning Summit in London.
James was awarded a prior fellowship with IRP, reporting from Tanzania in 2013.
Stories
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Why I Am Grateful for Traveling to Africa
{image-1} I have written before that only a few short years ago I never wanted to visit Africa because I believed what the media fed me about the continent. I ...;
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Inside a Malaria Treatment Center
I have been told enough harrowing personal stories and have read enough reports to understand contracting malaria isn’t a cakewalk. And for children (especially those under the age of five)...
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Family Planning Kits from Ethiopia, Zambia, South Africa
I have been fortunate to visit health posts and family planning clinics in a handful of countries. One of the things I always ask to see while visiting are family planning kits...
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New Report Highlights Motherhood in Childhood
{image-1} When I traveled throughout Tanzania and Zambia recently I noticed young mothers at every turn. With sleeping babies closely wrapped on their backs I often thought how fortunate these girls were...
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Walking Through a Medical Supplies Warehouse in Zambia
{image-1} In Zambia there is one central location where over 600 medicines are stored for distribution throughout the country. I was recently in Zambia as a guest of Malaria No More ...;
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Getting Malaria Medicines to Children in Zambia
If I weren’t a writer, I would work in the logistics industry in some capacity. I relish discovering how products are efficiently routed from Point A to Point B from...
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One Acre Fund Members Singing Before Weekly Farmer Training
One Acre Fund member sing and pray before each of their weekly meetings. We observed a weekly meeting in Iringa, Tanzania, where One Acre Fund has just started its second season in...
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When the Rains Slowed: Food Insecurity in Northern Tanzania
{image-1} The Maasai Steppe in northeastern Tanzania is bone dry for more months out of the year than those who dwell there are used to. This is a new occurrence. Depending on...
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Motherhood in Tanzania
{image-1} Throughout my travels in Tanzania for the past ten days, every time I saw a mother and her baby I smiled inside. And I was even more happy to see mothers...
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Sounds of the Maasai
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Leaving Unfinished Business in African Villages
{image-1} Today I visited a One Acre Fund farmer training meeting in Magulilwa village in Iringa District in Tanzania. You might of heard of the One Acre Fund from Roger...
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How Community Gardens Are Changing Lives in Tanzania
{image-1} Up in the lush Uluguru Mountains in Morogoro, Tanzania, a USAID-funded nutritional program, Mwanzo Bora (which means "good start" in Swahili) has been put in place to help increase local mothers...
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Tanzania’s Tech Set Aims to “Change Society”
It was interesting this week to see a slice of the tech scene in Dar es Salaam. We visited KINU which is a collaborative innovation technology space for app developers,...
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Tanzania’s Agricultural Landscape
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The Surprising Cause of Stunting in Tanzania
{image-1} In the developed world most people have no idea what stunting is. It is a health problem we do not have to worry about because access to nutritious and fortified foods...
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Can $1 Really Save a Life?
Can $1 really save a life? Global malaria eradication NGO, Malaria No More, says yes. With Power of One (Po1), Malaria No More’s new, innovative campaign that...
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It’s Time for the REAL Awards Again
When I was in Zambia two months ago I met a phenomenal nurse, Susan Banda, who treats women who have cervical cancer in the N’Gombe compound in Lusaka. She diagnoses...
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Infographic: Women and Agriculture
As I wrote yesterday in Covering Agriculture, Poverty, and Hunger in Tanzania, I will be visiting Tanzania in the coming weeks to report on the agricultural sector and how it affects...
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An Integrated Approach to HIV/AIDS and Family Planning Services
An integrated approach to healthcare no matter the setting is a more effective and rights-based approach to healthier outcomes. When family planning services are available at HIV/AIDS clinics, Population Action...
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Saving Mothers at Birth
{image-1} While maternal mortality has been halved since 1990, low and middle income countries still have a long way to go in order to see improved maternal mortality numbers. Sub-Saharan Africa still ranks...
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One Man’s Anger: When the Global Water Crisis Hits Home
{image-1} When I was in Zambia in July reporting on infectious diseases, something happened one day while visiting the N’Gombe compound in Lusaka that really made me think critically...
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Meeting Key U.S. Players in Zambia’s National Health
{image-1} After spending nearly a week and a half in Zambia during the second half of July with nine other new media journalists, we concluded our final day with an official visit...
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Traveling the World Without Kids
{image-1} Since 2011 I have been traveling the world fairly consistently for my work covering global health and development. It started in 2011 when I traveled to Kenya with the ONE Moms for a...
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This Isn’t Your Typical Health Clinic
Northmead Center located in one of Lusaka’s residential neighborhoods was especially empty on an early Wednesday morning. Only three men sat patiently watching television in the clinic’s spacious...
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Flying Over Zambia
In order to get from Livingstone--where we stayed a day after visiting the Macha Malaria Research Institute--to Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, in a relatively short time we flew. If there...
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Seeing Victoria Falls
You honestly cannot go to Zambia and not see Victoria Falls, or as it’s locally called, Mosi-oa-Tunya (The Smoke that Thunders). Right on the Zambia and Zimbabwe border you can...
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Visual Storytelling in Zambia
{image-1} From mid July through the end of the month, I traveled throughout Zambia covering stories about HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria with the International Reporting Project as an IRP Zambia Fellow....
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Why Zambian Chief Mumena Now Advocates for Male Circumcision
I can’t imagine that it is a simple decision to make to get circumcised for any adult man, especially when circumcision is not culturally practiced it one's community. But...
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Living and Thriving With HIV/AIDS
{image-1} Like most people who had HIV/AIDS in the 1990s, Lameck, a poor subsistence farmer and bike mechanic in Macha, refused to believe he had the disease when he tested positive...
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Off the Grid in Choma
Jennifer James is traveling to Zambia as an International Reporting Project Zambia Fellow. The International Reporting Project is a part of The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She...
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Feeding Malnourished Children in Macha, Zambia
{image-1} I saw for the very first time in my life a severe acute malnourished child. He was two. I didn’t ask his name as not to pry into the...
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Sanitation Wisdom From a Zambian Chief
{image-1} As you may know I am in Zambia with the International Reporting Project as a new media fellow. Ten of us are here in the country to report on HIV/AIDS,...
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Cervical Cancer in Zambia
Jennifer James is traveling to Zambia as an International Reporting Project Zambia Fellow. The International Reporting Project is a part of The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She...
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Days 2 and 3 in Lusaka
{image-1} {image-2} Today was a fairly busy day. We visited a clinic in a compound called N’Gombe where they service nearly 500,000 people. In Zambia, slums are called compounds, which is...
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Zambia: TB, the Church, Partnerships, and Male Circumcision
Jennifer James is reporting on HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB in Zambia on a trip with the International Reporting Project (IRP).
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Dusk in Lusaka
Tonight there was no way I was going to order room service again! No way! I ordered room service last night so I could stay in and get some work done. Why...
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Reporting from Zambia
For the next week and a few days I will be in Zambia reporting about HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB. This afternoon when I was on my way to the grocery store...
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The Day Ahead: HIV & AIDS in Zambia
Every morning I will give a quick update via SoundCloud about a general theme for our day ahead. I recorded this before our day started this morning. Look and listen for...
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Young Zambian Women and Their Fight Against HIV/AIDS
{image-1} Africa, I’m sure you know, is an expansive continent, but did you know it is filled with 1.3 billion youths between the ages of 15 – 24? Experts have called the growing...
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Children of Chawama
{image-1} Yesterday we went to Chawama, a compound, or slum, to visit a Safe Love Club meeting. Safe Love Clubs are youth clubs that teach its members about HIV education, awareness, and...
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Lusaka’s “Love Games” Tackles Sex, Love, and HIV
In Zambia, where HIV/AIDS rates are some of the highest in the world, Zambia’s Ministry of Health has been thinking outside of the box beyond pamphlets, brochures and signs...
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Early Morning in Zambia
{image-1} When I travel abroad I love to wake early to see how the locals get their day started. There is a major thoroughfare right outside our hotel so I grabbed my...
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My Journey to Zambia
{image-1} Today’s the day! I officially begin my trip to Zambia as an International Reporting Project Zambia Fellow. I am excited to get on the ground and visit NGOs, clinics,...
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George W. Bush Praises Zambia’s HIV/AIDS National Efforts
{image-1} In less than a month I will join nine other new media journalists on a reporting trip to Zambia as an International Reporting Zambia Fellow. We will be charged with learning...
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The Face of Neglected Tropical Disease
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