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LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME: THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE
4. The two State Newspapers of Kogi State “Graphic newspapers” and “Kogi Today
Magazine” has invited the Initiative group to regularly send materials and messages for
publishing to enlighten the masses about HIV & AIDS
5. In Cross River State, all information about HIV & AIDS is aired free of charge on the State
Radio and Television and also printed free of charge in the State owned newspapers.
Workplace Policies
In Abia State, discrimination against PLWHA in some highly patronised private hospitals has
been eliminated while notices have been put up in the hospital that staff should treat them with
love and affection. The hospital has also started giving admission to those who need them –
something they were not doing before the Initiative group paid advocacy visits to them.
Microbicide Promotion/ PMTCT for Traditional Birth Attendants.
In Lagos State, an Initiative group has started working on promoting some local remedies that
have been used by the Traditional Medical Practitioners to treat opportunistic infections while
another group has trained about 250 traditional birth attendants on PMTCT issues, since
about 70% of the population of Lagos state use their services.
“The collective and individual actions of the 40 participants trained at the Federal
Level, and the 87 trained at the state level is bringing up a new set of opportunities and
competencies never witnessed before in the state. I am very grateful to the UNDP,
hereby urge them to come up with more of this people–oriented, community based
programmes to help address the multifarious problems of HIV & AIDS in Bauchi State,
as we set out to be a primary tourist destination in Nigeria”
– His Excellency, Gov. Adamu of Bauchi State
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