10 Ideas for TB Photo Opportunities
1. TB clinics: Take journalists to visit a local TB clinic.
2. TB patients: Arrange for a journalist to interview a new TB patient in your community and follow his or her progress throughout the entire course of treatment.
3. Lungs: Show photographs of lungs "before" with TB and "after" with DOTS.
4. Celebrities: Have a local celebrity or sports star supervise patients taking their medicines.
5. Outbreaks: TB outbreaks in schools, meeting places, or clubs often bring attention to TB.
6. Historic sites: Exhibit photos and medical equipment related to the control of TB in your country a hundred years ago, or hold a press briefing at the site of a former TB sanatorium in your region.
7. Balloons: Pass out balloons labeled with the message “The Air We Breathe Can Be Fatal, If We Don't Control TB.”
8. Clocks: Use a large visible clock that shows somebody becoming sick with TB nearly every 4 seconds.
9. Publicity stunts: Creative activities can draw media attention. For example, organize an event where people fall down every 20 seconds drawing attention to how frequently people are dying of TB worldwide.
10. Photocalls: Have a leading politician or public figure sign a petition and personally present it to an even higher public official in front of photographers.
