AFRO-NETS> Open Electronic Conference on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria

[Omololu Falobi <omololuf@micro.com.ng>]

Open Electronic Conference on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria
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Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria is pleased to announce the 
commencement of its six-months long Open Electronic Conference on key 
HIV issues on the Nigeria-AIDS eForum:
http://www.nigeria-aids.org/eforum.cfm

Under the project supported by The FUTURES Group International/POLICY 
Project Nigeria and the National Action Committee on AIDS (NACA), 
Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria is conducting on the Nige-
ria-AIDS eForum, a six-month long open discussion of key HIV-related 
issues among HIV/AIDS activists and advocates as well as governmen-
tal, non-governmental, multilateral and community-based organisations 
in the Nigeria.

The principal objective of this project is to build effective net-
working, stakeholders' participation and transparency in the imple-
mentation of the HIV/AIDS Emergency Action Plan (HEAP) as well as the 
general response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Nigeria.

Other objectives are to:

1. Enhance national exchange of information and experience between
   HIV/AIDS workers and organisations, the private sector, community
   organisations, PWAs, the media etc in Nigeria;
2. Highlight good practices and promote multi-sectoral partnerships;
3. Facilitate stakeholder participation in the HIV/AIDS policy making
   and implementation process, through encouragement of open dis-
   course on issues among forum members;
4. Disseminate news, views and information on HIV/AIDS to Nigerians
   and other publics across the world, information about HIV/AIDS ac-
   tivities (especially of NACA), grants, resources, international
   job vacancies, upcoming conferences as well as research reports
   and other news relevant to Nigeria;
5. Serve as a forum for polling opinions, evaluation and feedback on
   legislation, interventions, strategies, projects etc by govern
   menttal and non-governmental agencies and encouraging stake-
   holders' input into these processes;
6. Encourage openness, transparency and accountability in the na-
   tional response to HIV/AIDS;
7. Facilitate the formation of a broad-based national response to
   HIV/AIDS;
8. Serve as a model for an exchange forum and communication network
   on HIV/AIDS in the West African sub-region.

In preparation for the launching of Open Electronic Conference, 
JAAIDS is organising a two-day workshop for its moderators and team 
of Key Correspondents (KCs) who will report for the forum. The work-
shop will hold at the training room of the Media Resource Centre on 
HIV/AIDS in Lagos on 27-29 July 2001. Six Key Correspondents (two fe-
male and four male, including a person living with HIV) representing 
each of the six geo-political zones in Nigeria have been appointed to 
report for the forum. Two co-moderators (one male, one female) have 
also been appointed to moderate discussions on the forum.

We intend that full discussions under the Open Electronic Conference 
will commence in the next two weeks. Fuller communications on the 
conference and solicitations for inputs into the discussion format by 
forum members will be made in the days ahead.

Do please stay in touch.

Omololu Falobi
Project Director
mailto:moderator1@nigeria-aids.org
http://www.nigeria-aids.org


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