UNAIDS, NNPA collaborate to empower journalists

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FILE PHOTO: journalists interviewing politician, holding microphones and voice recorders.

The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in collaboration with National Newspapers Publishers Association (NNPA), USA, has pledged to empower journalists in West and Central Africa with skills and gadgets to improve their proficiency.

Dr Djibrill Diallo, Regional Director, UNAIDS, disclosed this during the regional media workshop organised by the agency in Dakar, Senegal, with the theme: “Informing the messengers to change the face of the fight against HIV in West and Central Africa’’.

He said the partnership between UNAIDS and African-American media partner networks was within the framework of 2017-2021 Plan of UNAIDS.

He said that UNAIDS has the support of the Deputy Secretary General of United Nation to design a sustainable funding mechanism for the partnership.

While speaking…

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