Media Resource Centre on HIV/AIDS opens in Lagos

Wednesday, May 30 2001 is the D-day for the formal opening of Nigeria's first resource centre and a new website dedicated to providing
information on HIV/AIDS and reproductive health issues for the media and the general public. The Media Resource Centre on HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health/Rights, the first of its kind in the country, is a project of Journalists
Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria, a media-based HIV/AIDS advocacy organisation founded by a group of journalists in 1997. Located at 1st Floor, 42 Ijaye Road, Ogba, Lagos, the resource centre
will provide electronic and non-electronic information resources on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health and other health issues to journalists and other members of the public. Facilities at the centre include a documentation library stocking HIV-related literature, research reports, CD-ROMs, disks, and audio-visual materials.