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.
(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.
"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
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