USAID Launches New Activity to Support Children Orphaned or Made Vulnerable to HIV in Lagos
PRESS RELEASE July 6, 2021 For Immediate Release PR-0**/2021 Lagos – On July 6, 2021, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Deputy Office Director for HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis Helina Meri joined Lagos State First Lady Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu at the launch of a new activity designed to protect children and their households […]
ARFH-ICHSSA 2 Project-Surviving Malnutrition During COVID-19 Crisis: Roqueeba’s Story
The first 1000 days of a child’s life offer a unique window of opportunity for preventing malnutrition and its consequences. Sadly, in Nigeria, not every baby gets to enjoy or survive this period of their life. According to UNICEF, Nigeria has the second highest burden of stunted children in the world with an estimated 2 […]
ARFH-Global Fund HIV Sexual Network Testing: A Game-Changer in Positive Case Findings
ARFH is implementing the community HIV Testing Services across 11 States in Nigeria with support from the Global Fund (GF) to fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, through fhi360. HIV positivity yield across the 11 project implementing states is at about 1.5%. Hence, in optimizing HIV investment for impact, ARFH adopted the Sexual Network Testing (SNT) […]
Report: Investing For Impact Against TB & HIV NGA-T-ARFH 2015-2018
ARFH with the support of The Global Fund implemented the “Investing for Impact Against TB & HIV” project across 22 priority states in Nigeria between 2015-2018. The goal of the project was to provide Nigerians with universal access to high quality, patient-centred prevention, diagnosis, and treatment services for TB, TB/HIV, and drug-resistant TB by 2020. […]
Exciting News in HIV: UK patient said to be 'Free' of HIV following stem treatment by Scientists
A UK patient’s HIV has become “undetectable” following a stem cell transplant – in only the second case of its kind, doctors report in Nature. The London patient, who was being treated for cancer, has now been in remission from HIV for 18 months and is no longer taking HIV drugs. The researchers say it is […]
ARFH-LOPIN REGION 1 USAID Project Empowers 712 Most Vulnerable Caregivers In Lagos, Akwa Ibom And Rivers States
Nigeria is currently home to about 17.5 million orphans and vulnerable children “OVC’ (FMWA, 2008), of which 7.3 million were orphans from several sources including AIDS. Aside this, unemployment and poverty rates remain alarmingly high with untold effect on the most vulnerable population. Thus, in mitigating this impact, ARFH is implementing the USAID supported Local […]
ARFH advocacy visits to state partners facilitates start-up of Global Fund NFM Grant in Oyo, Kaduna, Rivers, Akwa-Ibom, Imo
ARFH is one of the Sub-Recipients to FHI 360 under the Global Fund HIV New Funding Model extension period beginning from January, 2018 to June, 2019. The project fully commenced in March, 2018 when ARFH & FHI 360 formally signed memorandum of understanding. To kick start the Global Fund HIV New Funding Model extension period, […]
ARFH Provides Training and Orientation for Counsellor Testers Under the Global Fund HIV New Extension Project
ARFH is one of the Sub-Recipients to FHI 360 under the Global Fund HIV New Funding Model Extension implementation. As part of the global efforts in the fight against HIV, ARFH was given the mandate to conduct community testing for Pregnant Women as well as Men and Women from vulnerable groups among the general population. […]
WORLD AIDS DAY: ARFH's CSS Project Has Referred 207,096 People for HIV Testing so far in 2017
World AIDS Day, designated on December 1st of every year is dedicated to HIV/AIDS awareness creation and education on AIDS prevention and control. The Theme of this year’s campaign is “Right to health” and the World Health Organization (WHO) is highlighting the need for universal health coverage for the 36.7 million people living with HIV […]
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT – CSS: Benue and Cross River (NEPWHAN)
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT! Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria NEPWHAN, 35 Justice Sowemimo Street, Off T.Y. Danjuma Street, Asokoro Abuja Position: Assistant State Program Officer (ASPO) State: Benue Position: Transport Officer (Driver) State: Cross River Background The role of effective community systems cannot be overemphasized in the context of HIV and TB programming in […]