ARFH and Partners Celebrate 2014 World TB Day
Tuberculosis-free Nigeria: Find. Treat. Cure TB ‘We must work together to accelerate and remove obstacles to DOT expansion, promote top level political commitment, provide adequate financial support and improve quality of TB services throughout the country’ – Prof O.A. Ladipo, President and CEO of ARFH Tuberculosis has emerged as a serious public health issue in […]
ARFH Celebrates Women Around The World
As the world celebrates International Women’s Day, ARFH remain committed to the empowerment of women in Nigeria. Recognizing the great role women are playing in promoting sustainable national development, ARFH join the international community to celebrate women who are leading change in their respective industries. The Int’l Women’s Day is a time to reflect on […]
PRESS RELEASE: 2014 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY (MARCH 8TH 2014)
PRESS RELEASE Abuja, March 7th 2014. 2014 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, MARCH 8TH 2014 “Equality For Women is Progress For All” Equality is empowerment; our society must support women as they thrive to care and nurture while contributing their quota to national development says Mrs. Kehinde Osinowo, Director of Programs of Association for Reproductive and Family […]
ARFH Participation at the 1st West and Central Africa Constituency Meeting Of The Global Fund
AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria are among key major disease burden that Nigerians are faced with daily. The substantial increase in resources dedicated to health through development assistance and other sources in the last ten years is changing the trajectory of AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, as well as other health problems in Nigeria. Though HIV/AIDS […]
ARFH at The Launch of Newborn Publication: 'Ending Newborn Death'
As the deadline for achieving Millennium Development Goals approaches and Nigeria’s Newborn mortality rates remain among the highest in the world, it is very vital that countries like Nigeria make urgent and substantial improvements in Child survival indices. But this won’t happen in Nigeria unless the crisis of newborn deaths is tackled. ARFH joined Save […]
Increasing Access to Contraceptives in Nigeria Through Task-shifting to Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWS)
The proportion of women who die in pregnancy, birth or related complications remains high in Nigeria. As Africa’s most populous country with a population of 168.8 million (NPC, 2012) and a growth rate of 3.2% per annum, Nigeria has high maternal mortality ratio (MMR) of 630 women per 100,000 live birth (UN, 2010). Some of […]
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria; Visits ARFH
The Management and staff of ARFH welcome The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to ARFH Abuja Office and wish them successful oversight visit to Nigeria. ARFH as a Principal Recipient (Global Fund HIV&AIDS and TB Round 9), works in collaboration with the Nigerian government and CSOs to implement innovative programmes on HIV/AIDS […]
Active TB Case Findings Through Community Engagement in Nigeria
Tuberculosis continues to remain a major public health problem in Nigeria. The TB burden is compounded by high prevalence of HIV in the country which stands at about 3.4 % in the general population 2012 National HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health Survey-Plus (NARHS Plus). An essential component of TB control programme in Nigeria is the empowerment […]
Expanding Access to Care and Support for OVCs in Bauchi State
The Links for Children OVC Project, a five-year project aimed at expanding access to care and support for 11,950 vulnerable children (VC) in three states of Nigeria (Kaduna, Bauchi, and Katsina) handed over renovated block of three classrooms School in Bauchi State in an effort to expand access to treatment services, care, and support for […]
#AIDSfree Generation: Reality or Myth for Young People with Disability
Mr. Oladeji Adeyemi presenting the outcome of a study on young people with visual disability and HIV/AIDS in Oyo State, South Western Nigeria at the 17th ICASA Conference Young people continue to remain at the center of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. Their behaviour, the extent to which their rights are protected, and the services […]