Our work in India

The BBC World Service Trust is focusing on health and emergency preparedness in India. We are currently working with a wide range of partners to promote condom use among 48 million men. We are also working to improve and increase media coverage of how the risk of natural disasters can be reduced. More about our work in India
  • characters from condom, condom ringtone campaign

    Mobiles are focus of HIV campaign

    Mobile telephony has an increasingly important role to play in international development. With approximately 2.5 million people in India living with HIV, the BBC World Service Trust has just launched a ringtone campaign to promote the use of condoms.  Read more
  • Training of trainers media workshop in Kashmir, India

    Promoting social affairs reporting in the media in Kashmir

    We are working in partnership with the Educational Multimedia Research Centre and Media Education Research Centre, University of Kashmir and the media industry to promote effective social affairs reporting.  Read more
  • Disaster risk reduction workshop in India

    Strengthening disaster prevention and resilience

    We are implementing a pilot project aimed at strengthening disaster prevention and resilience in the states of West Bengal and Orissa. This will be achieved by developing media, government and NGO capacity to increase and improve media coverage of disaster risk reduction issues.  Read more

  • Normalising condoms in India

    Approximately 2.5 million people are living with HIV in India. We are producing public service advertising to promote condom use in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.   Read more
  • Indian women learning how to use mini-disk recorders

    Beyond the Courtyard - empowering rural women in India

    Working in partnership with a range of Indian non-governmental organisations, All India Radio and the BBC Hindi Service, we worked with 12 women from rural areas to produce a community radio programme about sexual health and women's empowerment.   Read more
  • Shilpa Shetty supports HIV and AIDS initiative in India

    Mass media campaign changes attitudes to HIV in India

    Working in partnership with the Government of India's National AIDS Control Programme and public broadcaster, Doordarshan, we produced a mass media campaign that promoted knowledge and changed the attitudes of millions of people in India to HIV and AIDS.  Read more
  • Child on railway tracks in Calcutta

    India: focus on the environment

    We worked in partnership with The Energy Resources Institute (TERI), Television Trust for the Environment (TVE) and the Stockholm Environment Institute to mobilise public opinion around the environment by improving the media's coverage of environmental issues and helping environmental activists communicate their messages more effectively.  Read more