Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria

JAAIDS in the News

  • JAAIDS Media Monitoring Service November 2006.   (05/04/2007)
    How Herbs can alleviate AIDS symptoms

    Though scientists are still working hard at getting a
    cure for HIV/AIDS, some traditional medicines have
    shown to be capable of helping to treat many AIDS-related
    opportunistic infections. » read more

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  • JAAIDS Media Monitoring Service October 2006.    (05/04/2007)
    Double Trouble: Living with HIV with no means of
    sustainable income

    With the state of the economy where about half of the
    country’s population live on less than $1 a day, many
    Nigerians, including a great number of people living
    with HIV/AIDS, are finding it difficult to feed. » read more

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  • JAAIDS Media Monitoring Service, December 2006   (05/04/2007)
    HIV/AIDS: Curtailing the epidemic on World AIDS Day

    The media coverage of HIV and AIDS in December was
    outstanding in a significant regard. » read more

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  • HIV in Children: Feeding a big Challenge   (21/03/2007)
    JAAIDS Media Monitoring Service: August 2006


    About 300 stories were published on HIV/AIDS by newspapers and magazines monitored in the month of August 2006. » read more

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  • JAAIDS Media Monitoring report-July 2006   (25/01/2007)
    “Delta commissioner who spreads HIV unveiled”

    It is not yet certain how well soft sell journalism has impacted on the Nigerian media landscape, but one fact that cannot be denied is  that whatever they touch turns to mud. » read more

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  • NIGERIA: Battling stereotypes one test at a time   (18/10/2005)
    A roundtable in Nigeria takes an unconventional approach to training journalists in AIDS reporting, and how to better understand the disease they cover. » read more

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  • HIV Treatment Progressing Rapidly, Access Still a Problem   (30/06/2005)
    The number of people receiving combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV-AIDS in developing countries has increased significantly - more than doubling from 400 000 in December 2003 to approximately one million in June 2005. » read more

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  • JAAIDS Leads Fight Against Aids Through the Media   (24/06/2005)
    Kingsley Obom-Egbulem, head of research and communications at JAAIDS, told AllAfrica's Alec Johnson about their work to raise the visibility of Aids issues in the Nigerian media. » read more

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  • African health-related sites
    Links to sites offering valuable information on health issues on the African continent are available here. » read more

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  • AIDS Reporting Improving in Nigeria, Study Reveals
    According to a study conducted by Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS), Nigerian newspapers and magazines report more responsibly and more thoroughly about HIV/AIDS now than they have in the past. However, certain aspects of HIV/AIDS coverage in Nigeria still need improvement. » read more

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  • Aids: Easing Access to Treatment
    Nina Iyola is in her thirties. She tested positive to HIV virus some years ago. Initially, her people did not know what the matter was with her. So, when all manner of treatment failed to cure the ailment, they went for spiritual healing. "I lived in a church for one month. They took me to the river and bathed me. But still, the ailment persisted," Iyola said. She is now on Anti Retroviral Drugs (ARV). "At first, I did not tolerate the drugs, but I persisted. Just as I was getting used to the drugs, there was the national stock-out. I could not afford to buy the drugs at N12,000 from the open market. » read more

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  • AMANITARE 2002 Annual Awards
    AMANITARE, the African Partnership for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women and Girls recently paid homage to two exceptional African organisations taking significant strides forward in their work to promote and protect the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of young women and girls in Africa. » read more

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  • Civil Society Organisations Pre-Forum Meeting African Development Forum – ADF 2000
    Keynote Address by Mr. Omololu Falobi, Project Coordinator, Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria
    Good morning, distinguished ladies and gentlemen and colleagues from media organisations from across Africa, About a week ago, Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria, a media-based organisation which I coordinate, invited key media stakeholders in Nigeria to a Discussion Session on media needs and constraints in coverage of HIV/AIDS. Under its Media Advocacy project, JAAIDS seeks to collate the opinions and perspectives of key representatives of the media on the challenges and constraints facing journalists on coverage of HIV/AIDS-related news. » read more

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  • E-drug: Media advocates support access to treatment campaign
    Nigerian journalists meeting at a roundtable on Thursday have called on the federal government to provide legislation that would ensure easy access to essential medicines for all Nigerians. At a Media Advocates Meeting on Access to Essential Medicines in
    Nigeria held at the Media Resource Centre on HIV/AIDS in Lagos, the journalists also pledged their support for the campaign to secure access to essential medicines in the country. » read more

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  • Global Campaign News
    The Global Campaign News is a forum for international exchange on microbicide activities and information with an aim to build a more informed and integrated movement for microbicide development and other prevention options against HIV and STDs. » read more

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  • GRASSROOTS MEDIA CRY OUT: What Microbicides?
    Issue:The need to create awareness, acceptability and readiness of microbicides at grassroot level via mass media relevant in Nigeria. The 2001 survellance survey was 5.44% result graduated to 5.8% in the 2002 survey with the rural(grassroot) areas recording a high level of prevalence.Description: A training workshop for media practitioners in Ekiti State in Nigeria was facilitated by JAAIDS, , a media based NGO for media practitioners in collaboration with Ekiti State Action Committee on AIDS (SACA)along with Department for International Development (DFID) for 45 journalists comprising of media managers, gatekeepers, reporters, programme producers and newscasters in both print and electronic media. » read more

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  • Increasing Local Coverage of the XIIth International Conference on AIDS and STDs in Africa
    Stella is a 13-year-old Ghanaian girl orphaned by AIDS. At an age when most girls are giggling with their friends and consumed with hairstyles and the next soccer game, her thoughts are of daily survival. Stella spoke at a press conference during the XIIth
    International Conference on AIDS and STDs in Africa, held December 9-13 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. She spoke about her desire to go to school and have enough food to eat. When her voice cracked and she broke down in tears, unable to continue, there was not a person in that pressroom who wasn’t crying along with her. » read more

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  • Interview with Tariro Makanga-Chikumbirike Senior Regional Media Officer, Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Dissemination Service
    The Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS) media programme started in 1998 after it was realised that the media in Southern Africa required capacity building in terms of their skills to effectively report on HIV and AIDS. In the early days of the pandemic, media articles were often characterised by sensationalised articles, which often promoted the stigma and discrimination attached to the pandemic. » read more

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  • Journalist leadership in the context of HIV/AIDS
    On 2 August 1997, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, a popular Nigerian musician, died of AIDS. It was the first time any prominent Nigerian was associated with HIV/AIDS. Ironically, Fela died not knowing he had AIDS: he was the AIDS role model Nigeria never had. He had 27 wives and many other sexual partners. He did not believe in condoms and thought AIDS was a Western invention to discourage sex in Africa, although his elder brother was Nigeria's health minister and most successful health advocate. » read more

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  • Media handbook on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria launched
    Media coverage of HIV/AIDS related issues in Nigeria recorded a boost in May 2003 with the launch of the first-ever Media Handbook on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.The publication is a product of a collaboration between three organizations: Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria, Development Communications Network, (DevComs) the United Nations Information Center,(UNIC), Nigeria. The launching held at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos. » read more

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  • Mobilising Media Advocacy and Community Preparedness for Female Controlled Options in Nigeria
    An effective microbicide, made accessible and available to women in developing countries, who bear the brunt of the HIV epidemic will undoubtedly alter the course of the epidemic, by giving women the power to protect themselves and their partners from HIV and Sexually transmitted Infections(STIs). Despite growing efforts from advocates and scientists in the developed world to ensure women’s access to safe, cheap, effective and accessible female controlled female controlled HIV prevention options barrier methods such as microbicides, the voices of the affected communities in many developing countries remain unheard. » read more

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  • Nigeria: AIDS, Media, and Prof. Ransome-Kuti
    In Nigeria in recent years journalists have been among those most active in campaigning for recognition of the threat from AIDS, against stigma, and for action on all fronts against the pandemic. Among the most eloquent advocates for openness has been the distinguished Nigerian public health leader, Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, who publicized the first AIDS case in 1986 and acknowledged in 1997 that the death of his world-famous musician brother (Fela Anikulapo-Kuti) was from AIDS. » read more

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  • Nigeria: Media response to HIV/AIDS on increase
    News coverage of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria is improving, despite the continued publication of inaccurate and sensationalistic articles, according to a new study. » read more

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  • Nigerian Journalists Monitor, Counter HIV/AIDS Stigma
    A year ago, Journalists Against AIDS, a nongovernmental organization (NGO) more commonly known as JAAIDS, became Africa's leading NGO delegate to the board of the United Nations' Program on HIV/AIDS. A year later, at the 15th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, the group presented several papers discussing lessons learned and ways to fight stigma and discrimination against people living with the disease. » read more

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  • Une étude révèle que la couverture du SIDA s’améliore au Nigeria
    Selon une étude menée par Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS), les journaux et les magazines nigérians offrent aujourd’hui une couverture beaucoup plus responsable et complète du VIH/SIDA que par le passé. Toutefois, certains aspects des articles doivent être encore améliorés. » read more

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  • Upcoming Meeting in Abuja Threatens Survival of People Living with HIV/AIDS, Advocates Warn
    HIV/AIDS treatment activists in Nigeria have expressed serious concern about a meeting in Abuja this week that threatens access to treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS in the country. The activists met on Saturday in Lagos under the auspices of the Treatment Action Movement (TAM), a coalition of civil society groups working in the area of HIV/AIDS treatment and care. » read more

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  • Workshop on science of HIV for journaliststs
    Journalists Against AIDS (JAADS) Nigeria held a three-day workshop on the Science of HIV for journalists between August 30 and September 1 2001. » read more

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  • Worldwide Advocates for Microbicides Meet
    On May 14, 2002, the Advocacy Panel of the Microbicides 2002 conference in Antwerp offered positive proof of the existence of a worldwide multi-faceted microbicide advocacy movement. Presentations from North and South America, Asia and Africa vividly illustrated the indigenous growth and diversification of efforts that has occurred within the movement over the last two years. » read more

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