If you want to investigative HIV/AIDS in your region, here are some ideas to get you started:

• Female condoms for prevention; do women know they exist?
• Are children orphaned by HIV/AIDS vulnerable to recruitment for child labor and as soldiers?
• The dilemma of explaining antiretroviral therapy to children with HIV/AIDS
• Teenagers living with HIV/AIDS
• The challenges of choosing the right therapy for HIV positive children
• The impact of conflict and disaster on Health-care systems in the context of HIV/AIDS.
• Why do some HIV positive people deliberately try to infect others?
• Exploring the deadly trio of Poverty, HIV and TB
• Are harm reduction interventions like substitution therapies among drug users feasible?
• In the face of growing complacency, how can effective prevention campaigns be created without perpetrating stigma?
• Dying, not from HIV/AIDS but failure to access treatment for the opportunistic infections; what is the problem?
• Mental health issues among persons living with HIV/AIDS
• HIV and alternative therapies: do they work?
• Why do some people who refuse ARV treatment? What are their reasons?
• Through society’s eyes: Adopting an HIV+ child
• Does sex education have a role in HIV prevention?
• HIV and Human rights in the prison context
• The search for a TB vaccine; what is the latest?
• Exploring TB- HIV co infection?
• Where is Government in the AIDS funding equation?
• Is the HIV criminalization bill relevant?
• How can laws protect sex workers and minimize the spread of HIV?

This list originally appeared in the Uganda Health Reporter, a publication of the Uganda Health Communication Alliance, on August 11. The author recently attended the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010), where he came up with the "best story idea" during a media training program that usually precedes the bi-annual gathering. His winning concept was “HIV among prisoners: A threat to the whole community." The training was organized under the auspices of the Journalist-2-Journalist Project of the U.S based National Press Foundation (NPF) in Vienna, Austria.