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		In May, the CBMP will host a television training in Jamaica, the second in a series of capacity-building workshops that are being organized following the historic Barbados Summit of May 2006, at which the Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership on HIV/AIDS was formed. The event will focus exclusively on the medium of television and its ability to educate and engage viewers on HIV/AIDS through a variety of formats. The workshop aims to inspire innovative programming that uses the power of television to heighten HIV/AIDS awareness, address stigma and discrimination, and promote personal action in the fight against AIDS.
		Stay tuned: New LIVE UP TV Show Coming this Summer!

January 2004 UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, launches the Global Media AIDS Initiative, engaging the media industry globally in the fight against HIV/ AIDS.		May 2006 30 of the Caribbean's top broadcast executives, representing 20 countries, convene in Barbados at the Caribbean Broadcast Media Leaders Summit on HIV/AIDS. They form the Caribbean Broadcast Media Partnership (CBMP) on HIV/AIDS.		June-December 2006 HIV/AIDS-related programming is sent out to CBMP members who have committed 12 minutes of air time per day to broadcast this content.
January 2007 27 radio journalists and producers, representing 16 countries from across the Caribbean, convene in Trinidad at the Caribbean Radio Programming Workshop on HIV/AIDS to learn about innovative programming formats for the coverage of HIV/AIDS. It is the first of three capacity-building workshops, developed at the Barbados Summit, to be held in the region.		March 2007 LIVE UP campaign launches!		Stay tuned: New LIVE UP TV Show Coming this Summer!