Nigeria: New Kano Center and Health Reporting Workshop for Female Journalists

The Voice of America, which reaches listeners in northern Nigeria through its Hausa language service, is officially launching a new Kano Reporting Center (KRC) on Feb. 16 2005, in conjunction with a health-reporting workshop for women journalists from Feb. 13-18 2005. The official opening coincides with a four-day workshop for female journalists to be led by Development Communications Network, the leading public health and science journalism training organization in Nigeria. More than a dozen Nigerian women journalists are participating in the workshop focusing on health reporting and covering issues including HIV/AIDS, polio, tuberculosis, leprosy, malaria and other epidemics.