Lassa fever: Foundation to train journalists on animal to human reportage

A media development organisation, Africa Media Development Foundation, AMDF, has said it was collaborating with Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association, NVMA, to train Nigerian journalists on reporting zoonosis, a disease transmitted from animals to humans.
This was as the organisation said the collaboration to train the journalists became necessary looking at the threat posed by diseases such as Ebola, rabies and Lassa fever, among others in the country.
AMDF programme officer, Sekyen Dadik made this known when she led a team of her colleagues on advocacy visit to the leadership of Nigerian Union of Journalists, Kaduna State Council.
She said the foundation was set up basically to help in developing capacity of media practitioners across Africa, through trainings and fellowships.
“Late last year, Kaduna State had recorded outbreak of rabies and last week, Nigerian health authorities have reported outbreak of Lassa fever in eight states where more than 35 deaths have been recorded. This represents 46 percent of the Case Fatality Rate, CFR.
“We are basically out to ensure we help in media development. We had several media training for journalists in Kaduna State. We have equally trained nine journalists from different media stations on reporting human right abuses.
“We have also in collaboration with NUJ FRCN Kaduna chapter, trained 16 of their reporters. We also trained 25 journalists on reporting hemophilia. Therefore, we intend to train 25 journalists on zoonosis in collaboration with the state council of NVMA.

 

 

 

Check the Nigerian Pilot newspaper for the full story.

 

 

 

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