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Supporting Nigeria's Efforts to Transform Data Management
GHAIN Helps PLHA Reject Stigma, Find Support, and Get Involved
Catalyzing Change in Communities to Respond to HIV/AIDS
Community Access to Counseling and Testing Expanded
People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria Find Support in Network
Nigeria's President Leads by Example, Goes for HIV Counseling and Testing
Treatment Centers Now Focus on the Entire Family
GHAIN Records Nearly 5,000 ART Clients in
GHAIN Launches Antiretroviral Treatment Services in Nigeria
FHI 'GHAINS' New Funds for Treatment, Care Programs in Nigeria
FHI Receives Award from Nigerian-American Organization
FHI Launches 13 VCT Centers in Lagos JUNE 2004 — FHI has teamed with the Lagos state government of Nigeria to commission 13 new integrated voluntary counseling and testing centers. The centers, launched June 1, were established with funding from USAID and technical assistance from FHI. During his commissioning speech, Executive Governor Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu directed state radio and television stations to devote at least five minutes of airtime daily to creating awareness about the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He also urged private electronic media to do the same.
New HIV/AIDS Television Series Debuts in Nigeria JUNE 2004 — FHI says a local television series debuted in early June as part of the change communication strategy of the IMPACT Project. The TV series titled Behind the Siege highlights the moral and social problems posed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Nigeria. The series also provides information about HIV and AIDS with an emphasis on changing behaviors that put individuals at risk of contracting the virus.
FHI Trains 61 Counselors for VCT Sites DECEMBER 2003 — Family Health International has begun training counselors for 13 U.S. Presidential Initiative/PMTCT VCT sites in Nigeria. The first counseling workshop, held Dec. 14 – 20, was aimed at building the capacities of counselors so they can provide quality counseling services to antenatal clients. Participants included counselors from other VCT/PMTCT sites in the country.
FHI Pioneers HIV, TB Service Integration NOVEMBER 2003 — FHI has launched a pilot project in the Kano state of Nigeria that integrates HIV and TB services. In July 2003, FHI assessed the feasibility of such integration and organized a one-day sensitization seminar for 17 stakeholders and 10 resource persons in Kano—including the national coordinator of Nigeria's tuberculosis program and National AIDS & STD Control Programme, the WHO zonal program officer for the Northwest region and program coordinators for HIV and TB in Kano. Seminar attendees resolved to integrate TB and HIV services and set up a technical working group to oversee the integration.
FHI/IMPACT Works with Theological Groups, Leaders SEPTEMBER 2003 — FHI/IMPACT Nigeria organized and facilitated an HIV/AIDS Planning Workshop for Theological Institutions on Sept. 10 for religious leaders of six different Christian denominations. The workshop was the first step toward creating an HIV/AIDS seminary training document called "The Life Line Curricula." It will be adapted and used as a standard feature of theological education in Nigeria. The planning process produced a 26-week, two-semester series of two-hour class lesson plans on HIV/AIDS. Participants felt that every effort should be made to urge seminaries, Bible colleges and other religious-focused schools to make the HIV/AIDS course mandatory for all their students.
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MARCH 2008 — FHI is supporting state action committees on AIDS and the state ministries of health in six Nigerian states to coordinate and implement effective use of the District Health Information System (DHIS) software for data capture, analysis, and reporting. Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Health adopted DHIS software as its health management information system in October 2006, and since then has greatly improved the accurate collection, storage, and sharing of health data in the country. 
MARCH 2008 — By last Fall, GHAIN-supported facilities and implementing agencies had counseled and tested over 1 million people, 25 percent of the total counseled and tested in Nigeria and an achievement that came two years earlier than targeted. Like many thousands of Nigerians, Ubaka Jones Nwabuokei is successfully challenging the rejection, stigma, and discrimination that often result when they reveal their HIV-positive status to those closest to them. "Being HIV-positive is not at all the end of life," he advises.
AUGUST 2007 — The Strengthening Nigeria's Response to HIV/AIDS (SNR) Project is helping community members to become "drivers of change." It helps to build the knowledge of volunteers about HIV and AIDS and sensitize them to the damage caused by stigma and discrimination. Read about two activists who are convincing traditional rulers and other community members to support HIV prevention, care, and support activities.
FEBRUARY 2007 — The need for HIV counseling and testing services in Nigeria is growing dramatically as efforts intensify to expand access to antiretroviral therapy and other care and prevention services. FHI/Nigeria is playing a critical role in meeting that need, particularly through a mobile voluntary counseling and testing program that has greatly expanded community access to these critical services.
DECEMBER 2006 — Assumpta Reginald works for the Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. Established in 1988, NEPWHAN consists of 250 support groups with 80,000 members. The umbrella organization is a member of all national AIDS committees and operates in more than 200 communities in Nigeria.
DECEMBER 2006 — President Olusegun Obasanjo helped launch Nigeria's National Counseling and Testing Programme at the commemoration of World AIDS Day in Abuja Dec. 1. Leading by example, the president publicly received counseling and was tested for HIV.
OCTOBER 2006 — Nigerian children affected by HIV are benefiting from two FHI-supported care and treatment centers that now integrate pediatric and adult services. By serving entire families in a single setting, these pioneering centers, based at Massey Street Hospital in Lagos and Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital in Kano, offer a holistic approach to HIV care and simplify complex treatment logistics for families with more than one infected member.
MARCH 2006 — After less than one year, GHAIN has exceeded its ART program reporting 2005 target of 4,540 by nearly 400 clients. To date, 4,934 HIV-infected people have received antiretroviral drugs in the country's 10 secondary health facilities. This includes 322 children, 259 pregnant women and 467 others with advanced infection. Program team leader Karan Kasan called this a "truly remarkable achievement," and added, "Not only have they met those targets one month before the end of the reporting year, but they have met those targets in just nine months from when funds were received."
