580 LONG LASTING INSECTICIDAL-TREATED NETS DISTRIBUTED IN KATSINA BY ARFH AND PARTNERS
580 Long Lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLIN) were distributed during an outreach programme in 3 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Katsina State to commemorate World Malaria Day 2016. The Expanded Social Marketing Project in Nigeria (ESMPIN) of the Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) partnered with Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria (PPFN), Society for Women […]
REPORT: Landscaping Analysis of Reproductive Health and Family Planning Policies in Nigeria: A Review of Inclusion of Female Condoms
Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) with funding support from the United Nations Commission on Life Saving Commodities (UNCOLSC) and Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition (RHSC) through Rutgers, Netherlands, implemented a three and half months grant to improve in-country female condom advocacy. Landscaping analysis of Reproductive […]
FROM DRIVER TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILLOR: The Story of Labaran Aduga, a Transport Officer at ARFH
Labaran Mohammed Aduga has been working at the Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) for a decade as a transport officer, until his community approached him to bring his experience as a health development worker to the fore. Mr Aduga, who hails from Huni Gade in Kuje Area Council, Abuja, worked with many teams […]
ARFH Participates in World Malaria Day Awareness Campaign in Kebbi State
In commemoration of the World Malaria Day on 25th April, 2016, health stakeholders and officials in Kebbi State, Nigeria, engaged in a media campaign to create awareness of Malaria. The Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) as a Sub-Recipient to the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) on the Global Fund New Funding Model (NFM) […]
PICTURE: National Family Planning Consultative Stakeholders Meeting in December 2015
PICTURE: National Family Planning Consultative Stakeholders Meeting in December 2015 at Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria
ARFH-SIDHAS PROJECT EMPOWERS WOMAN TO START PASTRY BUSINESS
Mrs Franca Okon is a caregiver of 6 children residing in Igueben, Edo State, Nigeria, who became a subsistence farmer after she lost her husband. She did menial farm jobs for people to feed her children, but still found it difficult to so. They lived in a dilapidated building with leaking roof and cracked walls. […]
Nigeria Commemorates World Malaria Day
To commemorate the World Malaria Day, on 25th April, 2016, the Federal Ministry of Health and health sector stakeholders (malaria) participated in a road walk from the Federal Secretariat Complex to NICON Luxury Hotel, Abuja, where a Ministerial Press Briefing was held. The World Malaria Day is commemorated every year all around the world to […]
Malaria Intervention Activities Conducted as Countdown to World Malaria Day 2016
As part of countdown activities to World Malaria Day, commemorated every year on 25th April, a two-day exercise was held at Mpape community, Abuja on the 19th and 20th of April 2016. The Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH), the National Malaria Elimination Programme of the Federal Ministry of Health, partners from different organisations, […]
HOUSE TO HOUSE ACTIVE TUBERCULOSIS CASE SEARCH HOLDS PROMISE TO INCREASING CASE FINDING
The active case finding commenced in February 2016 by Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) is one of the strategic approaches currently being employed in the Global Fund New Funding Model (NFM) for increasing Tuberculosis case detection. This is in response to the findings from the first Tuberculosis prevalence survey in Nigeria conducted in […]
ARFH Convened Stakeholders Meeting to Improve Community-Facility Health Referral Systems in Nigeria
Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) organized a stakeholders’ meeting on 15th April, 2016 in Abuja, to build consensus for the rapid assessment of community-facility health referral systems in Nigeria. At the meeting, which held at Ayalla Hotels, the Monitoring and Evaluation coordinator, ARFH, Dr Abiodun Hassan presented an overview of the concept paper […]