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ONE AWARD WINNER 2008

Development Communications
(Devcoms) Network announced winner of the 2008 ONE Africa
Award.

September 9, 2008, Lagos: Devcoms Network has been awarded the prize of $100,000 for their work with the media
in Nigeria, training and sensitizing journalists and editors to public health care issues, especially for women
and children.

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Top notch public health stories for reporters by reporters

GRANT WINNERS ANNOUNCED

(L:R Akin Jimoh,Godwin Haruna, Vivienne Irikefe, Ibrahim Yusuf, Lekan Otufodurin)

5 outstanding journalists have been announced as the winners of 2009 Investigative Reports on Maternal, Newborn & Child Health Issues in Nigeria. The

five include :

Abiose Adelaja (NEXT Newspaper);

Godwin Haruna (Thisday Newspaper);

Ibrahim Yusuf (The Nations Newspaper);

Vivienne Irikefe (Sliverbird Television) &

Iliya Akure (FRCN, Kaduna)

 

(L:R Dr.Abimbola Ajayi & Dr. Chinyere Ezeaka) October Media Forum.

 

 

 

 

DEVCOMS HOMEPAGE

 

Development Communications (DEVCOMS) Network is a media-development, capacity-building non-governmental organization coordinated by experienced development journalists.

The organization is a product of series of development projects on media (both print and broadcast – including filming and radio production) health promotion, advocacy and capacity building in the Nigerian mass media and the civil society sector from 1995 to date.

 

What we do


Computer Club House

 


Media Resource & Advocacy Centre


Ultra Modern Audio Studio


Video Studio

 

SOME OF OUR RECENT ACTIVITIES

February Media Forum

(Thursday : February 11, 2010 )

"Telephone Counselling in promoting safe SRH practices: A success story of toll free hotline services”

Mrs Iwalola Akin-Jimoh said the hotline was initiated in response to the urgent need for factual, accurate and credible information and services (in Nigeria) at that time on HIV and AIDS. She reiterated that “lots of quacks were abusing the lack of coordinated national response to the HIV epidemic to deceive People Living With HIV (PLWHs) and blackmailing them to part with property and money. Also, Deputy Head Public Private Partnership of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Effiong Eno said that with the continuous support of hotline counseling, better and safer SRH practices will be witnessed among young people.

 

:: As Stubborn VVF Scourge Stays with Us...

An outstanding story by Grant Award Winner..Godwin HARUNA

 

It is estimated that about 800, 000 women are caught in the web of Vesico-Vaginal Fistula (VVF) in Nigeria. The figure is reflective of the dismal health indices of the country as experts lament that the weak healthcare delivery system has combined with the moribund cultural practice of betrothal to decapitate the womenfolk. Of the sundry health challenges the nation is facing, investigations show that VVF is a scourge Nigeria can do without...read more

Induced abortion, major cause of maternal mortality  

“Of the main causes of maternal mortality, unsafe abortion is the single most preventable cause of death” states the sixth periodic report of Nigeria to the CEDAW Committee. Click for more >>

 

Hazards of Teenage Pregnancy  

It is no longer a diplomatic statement that young people in the last decade, especially within the age group of 10-18 years, are living beyond the yard sticks of adventures compared to the youths of the 90s’. . Click for more >>

Our Vision  

We envision a society that is literate about science and public health issues

 Science News

(MARCH, 2010)

Nigeria Partners World Body On $4.3m Science Training Project 

 

Xtreme Training in Science Journalism in Africa and in the Arab World

 

 

Climate change in Nigeria:

A Communication Guide...click here

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