FHI Works with USAID's GHAIN Project
The Global HIV/AIDS Initiative Nigeria (GHAIN) is the largest comprehensive HIV/AIDS project ever implemented in a single developing country.
Funded by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through USAID, the five-year GHAIN project is rapidly strengthening and expanding a wide range of HIV/AIDS services to support the government of Nigeria's response to the epidemic.
Working with the government of Nigeria and other local partners, GHAIN will:
- Build the skills and capacity of local groups providing HIV services
- Prevent new infections by promoting abstinence and faithfulness
- Prevent new infections be education people living with HIV/AIDS and the groups most at risk for infection, including youth
- Improve the quality and expand the availability of services, including voluntary counseling and testing for HIV, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, clinical care and provision of antiretroviral therapy, treatment of sexually transmitted infections, and prevention and treatment of tuberculosis and other opportunistic infections
- Support home-based care activities
- Provide support for orphans and vulnerable children
- Strengthen the monitoring and evaluation capacity of its Nigerian partner organizations
