The UN International Children’s Emergency Fund UNICEF has urged the media to focus more on reportage of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and AIDS to ensure a society free of HIV children.
The fund’s Communications Specialist in Nigeria, Geoffrey Njoku, made the call in Calabar at a three-day workshop to reinvigorate and produce a work plan for journalists.
It was reported that the journalists are members of the Journalist’s Alliance for the Prevention of Mother-To- Child Transmission MTCT of HIV and AIDS JAPiN.
The workshop was organised by the Child Rights Information Bureau CRIB of the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture in collaboration with UNICEF.
Njoku, who said that the media needed to provide update on the current status of HIV and AIDS in the country, added that the media needed to bring back HIV and AIDS to the front burner by educating pregnant women on the importance of MTCT.
Atana Ewa, the Associate Professor of Pediatric Respiratory/Infectious Disease, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, said that the management of children living with HIV needed more focus, attention and enlightenment.
