Communication context of Roll Back Malaria and HIV and AIDS campaigns in Nigeria

With malaria endemic and HIV and AIDS transmuting into a pandemic, the disease burden posed by the two have made them the focus of national and global attention. This necessitated a comparative scrutiny of the communication component of the Roll Back Malaria and HIV and AIDS programmes in Nigeria; and the environment and scenarios for communication interventions, with a view to assessing their effectiveness in addressing the need for sustainability and ownership. The analysis highlighted the potential of communication, which in programmatic language is often interchangeably used with its sub-sets which include advocacy, social mobilization and programme communication. While the trend of communication conforms to global templates for such interventions, continuing concerns about morbidity and mortality rates of both diseases despite deployment of enormous resources, personnel and competence, highlight gaps in the effectiveness of strategies and activities. There is a need to reconcile the logic of programme and institutional agendas, and minimum frameworks for achieving local stakeholders’ ownership for communication to successfully catalyze these programmes to achieve the targets of prevention, control and a general reduction of morbidity and mortality deriving from these diseases

Communication and Development in Nigeria: A Discussion

No Abstract Available Afr. j. polit. sci. Vol.9(1) 2004: 71-8

Psychol-social factors in rural health information dissemination

No Abstract Available African Journal for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Vol.4(1) 1999: 79-9

Sustainable development in unstable societies: The Dilemma of Communication Research in Africa

The major thesis of this paper has been that communication research in Africa has had a slow growth rate, which bespeaks situations in the society itself. The gains of the late seventies and early eighties have not been shored-up. It goes on to warn that this cycle of retardation may continue unless researchers address themselves to basic structural and functional defects in African societies, specifically that of unstable governments and policies, unstable economies and directionless objectives, as well as the appalling social life and largely prostrate social services and infrastructure. While these are in themselves of research interest to several foreign scholars, African researchers must contribute to the realization of a new order where sustainable development would be a clearly visible goal. (Humanities Review: 2001 1(1): 26-32