Population Council's e-forum to discuss youth-friendly HIV programs and services in Nigeria


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Gabriel Oludrey Banji Odelana Ajani Olumide Faith Franklin Nwagwu Olalekan Paul Paul Adepoju Kikelomo Taiwo Opara Felix Shamaki Dalton Abdullahi HaruspicePopulation Council is today (Wednesday) holding a national multi-stakeholder event on Walking the Talk Youth-friendly HIV programs and services in Nigeria. The virtual event will be held on Facebook and Twitter social media platforms.


"The national multi-stakeholder dialogue session will focus on bringing together Nigerian youth, researchers, policy makers/program managers, and donor agencies with experience working on sexual and reproductive realth (SRH) and HIV-related issues among youth (15-24) to discuss how HIV programs and services should be and are being shaped to be more youth-friendly in Nigeria," a member of the organizing team told HealthNewsNG.com.

"The panelists will highlight current gaps, present evidence on new solutions; share their individual perspectives on how to reach this diverse population, and next steps of action for their organization. The session also aims to mobilize young people to advocate for youth friendly HIV programs and services and will enable them to network amongst themselves and with other HIV and AIDS stakeholders," she said.

She said social media was selected as the right platform because it provides access to diverse populations.

"As at 2012, Facebook has about 1 billion active users which makes it a perfect platform to reach diverse populations, and we know young people have carved their own niche in the social media," she said.

"We want the young people to hold our stakeholders accountable in programs and policy development for young people, young people need to take ownership is of this process." 

To join the conversation, send your messages using the following hash tags:

#Walkthetalk14 

#HIV 

#Youth 

#Nigeria

You can also follow dialogue on HealthNewsNG.com's live twitter feed on our pages.

The event starts by 10 and ends at 1pm

Below are confirmed members of the panel at the forum.



S/N
Name
Designation
Organization
1
Sylvia Ekponimo
Team Leader, Programs
Education as a Vaccine (EVA)
2
Arjan De Wagt
Chief Children & HIV/AIDS
UNICEF Nigeria
3
Prof. O.A. Ladipo
President/CEO
Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH)
4
Dr. Nasser  El-Kholy
Maternal Health Advisor
UNFPA Nigeria
5
Dr. Emmanuel Alhassan
Director, Resource Mobilization
National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA)
6
Dr. Yinka Falola-Anoemuah
Assistant Director, Programmes Coordination Department
National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA)
7
Prof. Friday Okonofua
Program Officer
Ford Foundation West Africa
8
Mr. David Ajagun
Adolescent Health and Development Desk Officer, Department of Family Health
Federal Ministry of Health
9
Mrs. Biddy Offiah
National Monitoring and Evaluation Desk Officer
Federal Ministry of Education
10
Dr. Babatunde Ahonsi
Country Director
Population Council Nigeria

1 comments:

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