Minister for Health hands over New Vehicles donated by ARFH to state governments
Nigeria’s Minister for Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, handed over four Toyota Hilux pickup trucks donated by the Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) to state governments on June 30, 2016, in Abuja. The brand new pickup trucks procured from the Global Fund grant and donated through the National Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Buruli-Ulcer Control Programme […]
Professor Ladipo Urges the Media to Improve Health Literacy
The President/CEO of the Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH), Professor Oladapo Ladipo, chaired the June 2016 monthly journalists’ roundtable discussion organized by Mamaye Nigeria. In his remarks, he stated that the media has a pivotal role to play to improve the health literacy of the public in Nigeria which is currently at a […]
NMEP Media Literacy Training Inspires ARFH Staff and Others
The 2-day National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) media literacy training conducted on 15th and 16th June 2016 in Abuja inspired participants representing the various malaria stakeholders. The objective of the training was to impart to stakeholders skills needed for effective communication of information on malaria prevention and control to the media and the public in […]
Global Fund and Stop TB Partnership Renew Memorandum of Understanding with Global Drug Facility
To optimize access to TB health products in countries receiving the Global Fund grant to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, The Global Fund renewed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility, in Geneva on 17th June 2016. This implies that the Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH), as a […]
PICTURES: Dr Ogbuji of ARFH Chaired a Session at The National Tuberculosis Conference
Dr Queen Ogbuji, the Tuberculosis Programme Coordinator of the Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) chaired a session at the two-day National Tuberculosis (TB) Conference organized by the Stop TB Partnership in Nigeria, which held in Abuja on 17th and 18th May, 2016. See pictures taken at the event. […]
ARFH’S ACTIVE TUBERCULOSIS CASE FINDING PROVES EFFECTIVE IN JIGAWA AND KADUNA STATES
Using the active Tuberculosis (TB) case finding of house to house search, the number of TB cases detected in Nigeria’s Jigawa and Kaduna states have increased very significantly. TB case notification in quarter 1 of 2016, compared to quarter 4 of 2015 rose from 470 to 617 and from 862 to 983 in Jigawa and […]
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) […]