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.
"Nutrition as a factor in
reducing Maternal, Newborn & Child Mortality" :The theme of the
forum is based on the high level of malnutrition experienced
by women and children under 5 in developing countries such as
Nigeria. The forum was facilitated by Dr. Abimbola Ajayi
(Directorate, Family Health & Nutrition, Lagos
Ministry of Health)...click
here
and Dr. Chinyere
Ezeaka (Lagos
University Teaching Hospital)...click
here
both
shared lights on how malnutrition affects every sector of the nation
especially maternal, newborn and child health.
::
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
Primary health centres are
dying..(ijebu East, Ogun State) by Abiose ADELAJA
Lonely amidst weeds, a primary health centre at Fotedo, a community
of approximately 200 people in Ijebu East local government area of
Ogun State has been under lock for two months. There has been
neither human footprint nor footsteps for a while, so when Ade
Balogun, the clinic’s caretaker, who lives a yard away from the
building, heard the footsteps of the reporter, he approached with a
worried look. “This clinic is closed, because of health workers
strike in Ogun State,” Mr. Balogun said in the Ijebu dialect of the
Yoruba language...read
more
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