Radio allows for conversations on all aspects of health, from physical to mental, from day to day illnesses to life-threatening diseases to tackling stigma around sexual health and mental disease.
Health has been at the centre of Gurgaon Ki Awaaz’s broadcast since inception.
Our first partners in the area health were St Stephen’s Hospital rural outreach program in village Dhankot. Collaborating right from set-up in 2009, we trained a health worker in radio production and broadcasting, and produced a series of programs on health, especially maternal and child health.
Over nearly 11 years of broadcasting we have tackled various health issues, but the most satisfying have been the ones where the anonymity of radio has encouraged listeners to join the conversation, or where we have got tangible feedback of behaviour change.
Over the past decade of broadcasting, we have collaborated with number of organisation, individuals and governement agencies to produce programs on health. These include:
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March 24 is World Tuberculosis Day. On this occasion Gurgaon Ki Awaaz Community Radio broadcast a special talk show with India’s top doctors for TB and other infectious diseases. In the show doctors explain the difference between Latent and Active TB, the challenges in testing and diagnosis, the importance of completing the treatment regimen, the role of nutrition in preventing active TB, and the need for a vaccine to reduce the TB burden in India.
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March 23, 2024 | 121 words | #campaigns, #tuberculosis, #health, #featured
In 2013, under a partnership with Commonwealth Of Learning, Gurgaon Ki Awaaz launched a health series built as a Community Learning Program. The result, Chahat Chowk (Crossroads of Desire), is a weekly program focused on the sexual and reproductive health of couples. Produced along with stakeholders such as Civil Hospital, Gurgaon, St. Stephens Hospital, Gurgaon, community men and women, and partner NGOs, the program features a doctor in the studio to answer questions from listeners in a Live program format.
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March 25, 2020 | 145 words | #campaigns, #gender, #sexual health
We use radio to address the silence and stigma surrounding mental health issues. Given the stigma to speak about mental health, and to reach out to professionals for help, the privacy and anonymity of radio allows our listeners to call in and talk to psychologists in our studio during live phone-in programs every week.
Udaan, is a weekly Live Phone-In show in partnership with counselor Satish Kaushik and a host of psychologists.
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March 25, 2020 | 110 words | #campaigns, #updates, #mental health, #featured
Gurgaon Ki Awaaz is the only civil society-run community radio in NCR. Broadcasting on 107.8 FM and streaming online.
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