By Efeunu Erezi & Precious John-Aziken

A Media advocacy group, the Journalists Alliance for PMTCT in Nigeria, JAPiN, has been awarded the Defender of the Girl Child Award.

Presenting the award during the group’s 2016 National Meeting in Lagos, Nollywood film producer, Mr. Dozie Eboh, said the award was in recognition of JAPiN’s  contributions towards the welfare and protection of the Nigerian girl child, adolescents and women in general.

Eboh, who is the CEO of View Trend Entertainment Limited, produced a movie on the Girl Child entitled Reality, that is  an expose on girl child labour, early marriage, vulnerability to rape, abuse and prostitution that consequently lead to infections such as HIV infection, entailing the need for the eMTCT/PMTCT campaign.

He noted that View Trend and JAPiN would work together  towards dissemination of the movie and building up the storyline.