Child Development Grant (CDG) Programme...

The program aims to prevent stunting in children under 5 by providing monthly cash transfers with nutrition education to 110,000 mothers giving them the resources and knowledge to provide their young children with a balanced and healthy diet. According to DFID, the project should benefit a total of 770,000 people over 6 years in Jigawa and Zamfara states by July 2019. The programme provides a cash transfer of Naira 4,000 per month for up to 100,000 pregnant women and women with children under the age of two years for a period of approximately 33 months, targeting the first 1,000 days of a child’s life. This predictable cash transfer is expected to contribute to increased food security and improved intake of more nutritious food, leading to improvement in child nutrition. Alongside the cash transfer, communities in the programme are provided with education and advice about nutrition and health, through a behaviour change component. This campaign is intended to influence key areas of knowledge and practice, including breastfeeding and infant diets, and is designed to address men and influential members of the community as well as those women who are the direct beneficiaries of the cash transfer. ...

PATHS 1 - Nigeria Partnership for Transforming Health Services...

PATHS 1 supported local initiatives to strengthen government stewardship in health policy, planning and financing; improve management in public health, particularly at the local level; raise quality standards of preventative and curative services, particularly in the areas of malaria, TB, reproductive health and sexually transmitted infections, safe motherhood and childhood illnesses; and raise awareness of people’s entitlement to good quality, affordable care and increase their ability to prevent and manage certain health conditions. Some PATHS 1 initiatives included: Increasing access strategies for safe motherhood services, feasibility studies looking at the provision of free emergency obstetric care (EOC) services, Managing health safety net schemes and creating options for expanding a safe motherhood emergency transport scheme. As a result,Transaid implemented an Emergency Transport Scheme in Jigawa under the auspices of this intervention. ...

Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunization in Northern Nigeria / Maternal Newborn and Child Health (PRRINN/MNCH)...

Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunization in Northern Nigeria / Maternal Newborn and Child Health (PRRINN/MNCH) is one of the most notable maternal and child healthcare programs in Northern Nigeria. It was jointly funded by the U.K. Department for International Development and the State Department of the Norwegian Government The program started in 2006 as PRRINN, a DFID-funded health systems project with a focus on state-wide routine immunization activities in four Northern states (£19 million). The total funding for the programme for the period 2006- 2013 is £65 million. Over this period the DFID contribution has been approximately £38 million and Norway has contributed approximately £27 million. ...

PATHS 2 - Partnership for Transforming Health Systems 2...

The Partnership for Transforming Health Systems Phase II (PATHS2) was a national programme funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to strengthen Nigeria’s health system. The goal of PATHS2 was to support Nigeria in using its own resources efficiently and effectively to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set for the country. The purpose was to improve the planning, financing and delivery of sustainable and replicable pro-poor services for common health problems in up to six States across the country. ...

Healthy Family Network...

The network was set up in 2010 under the Women’s Health Project, providing family planning services through a network of privately owned hospitals. However, from 2013, the network expanded its scale to recruit more privately owned hospitals, maternities, pharmacies and patent proprietary medicine vendors (PPMVs) located in urban, semi-urban and rural areas. In addition the network supports the providers in provision of quality health care services (through capacity building, commodity supply and quality improvement initiatives), facilitation of medical credit fund by making the facilities bankable and demand generation through strategic behavioral change communication activities. Presently, the network comprises of 340 hospitals and clinics, 195 pharmacies and 185 PPMVs across 22 states of the federation. There was also an expansion in the scope of services. Presently, the network operates as a social franchise to provide quality services in the areas of family planning (short and long acting), maternal and child health, including BEmONC services and safe motherhood, Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI), Post Abortion care services, HCT and STI management, Malaria services, Cervical Cancer screening and Preventative therapy, clean and safe water treatment, diarrhea prevention and treatment. ...

Kadawawa Pilot Study on Community Based MNCH Service Delivery...

Between February and August 2011, a quasi-experimental design compared service utilization in the pilot community of Kadawawa, which deployed female resident CHEWs to provide health post services, 24/7 emergency access, and home visits, with the control community of Kafin Baka. In addition, the researchers analyzed data from the preceding year in Kadawawa, and also compared service utilization data in Kadawawa from 2008–2010 (before introduction of the pilot) with data from 2011–2013 (during and after the pilot) to gauge sustainability of the model. Following deployment of female CHEWs to Kadawawa in 2011, researchers saw more than a 500% increase in rates of health post visits compared with 2010, from about 1.5 monthly visits per 100 population to about 8 monthly visits per 100. Health post visit rates were between 1.4 and 5.5 times higher in the intervention community than in the control community. Monthly antenatal care coverage in Kadawawa during the pilot period ranged from 11.9% to 21.3%, up from 0.9% to 5.8% in the preceding year. Coverage in Kafin Baka ranged from 0% to 3%. Facility-based deliveries by a skilled birth attendant more than doubled in Kadawawa compared with the preceding year (105 vs. 43 deliveries total,respectively). There was evidence of sustainability of these changes over the 2 subsequent years. Researchers concluded that community-based service delivery through a resident female community health worker can increase health service utilization in rural, hard-to-reach areas. ...

Health: Prevention of Maternal Deaths (PMD) ...

The programme aimed to reduce death and injury from unsafe abortion and increased contraceptive use, thereby improving maternal health. ...

Zinc and Low-osmolarity Oral Rehydration Salts and Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (ZIFAS)...

ZIFAS increased the coverage and quality of antenatal care using low-dose Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (IFAS) to reduce pregnancy-related illnesses and deaths resulting from anaemia in pregnancy. Using a health system strengthening approach, ZIFAS ensured a long-term sustainable supply of ZIFAS in the public health system. The project team improved systems for forecasting and procurement as well as supply chain management, provided training for health managers and service providers, and strengthened government systems for monitoring and evaluation. ...

Women for Health (W4H)...

Women For Health is a DFID funded project aimed at addressing the rural staffing shortages of women health workers in five northern states. Since November 2012, W4H has increased the number and capacity of female health workers in Borno, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Yobe, and Zamfara by: Improving the capacity of colleges of nursing and midwifery and colleges of health technology to train female health workers, improving the accreditation status and training capacity of health training colleges, and increasing graduation rates; Improving the recruitment, deployment, and retention of midwives in rural facilities while implementing a Foundation Year Training Programme, or access course, for rural women to improve their academic credentials, study skills, and confidence to enter health worker training; Engaging with community, religious, and training institutions to create a gender-friendly environment for women to pursue health careers, and facilitating locally led scale-up; Institutionalising short-term courses and modules in the curriculum to prepare health workers for deployment in conflict settings and humanitarian programming. ...

MamaYe - Evidence for Action (E4A)...

MamaYe is a public action campaign initiated by Evidence For Action (E4A) MamaYe uses tools like scorecards, dashboards, and maternal death reviews (MDRs) to support evidence building and decision-making by policy makers and to advocate for positive health system changes. ...

MNCH2...

The Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH2) is a UK government funded program focused in 6 of Nigeria's northern states. The program aims to improve maternal and newborn child health through increased skilled birth attendance, antenatal care attendance, immunisation rates, newborns receiving low-cost, live-saving interventions, and pregnant women and children protected from vaccine-preventable diseases. MNCH2 aims to increase skilled birth attendance from 19 to 45 per cent across the six northern states, and it estimates that it will save the lives of 60,000 children, 42,000 newborns and 2,000 pregnant women in the six programme states while providing 6.3 million high quality MNCH services to women and children. ...

Advocacy for Primary Health Care Reform...

The project aimed to reduce maternal and child mortality by advocating implementation of new reform policies passed and enacted to reorganise health services, strengthen management, increase funding, address inequities and respond better to the needs of the population in more States. The project advocated for six additional States to pass Primary Health Care (PHC) Under One Roof legislation which meets NPHCDA (National Primary Health Care Development Agency) standards; for six additional States to pass appropriately costed policies or legislation guaranteeing free maternal and child health care at the point of use; and to get the National health bill passed and signed into law to improve health services. ...

Saving One Million Lives - Programs For Results ...

Saving One Million Lives - Programs For Results is a slight reimagination of the initial Saving One Million Lives program piloted in October, 2012. The Program for Results (PforR) is a performance based program of the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGON) assisted by the World Bank. The program is financed by a $500million International Development Association (IDA) credit to the Federal Republic of Nigeria over a period of 4 years. The resources are then disbursed to the states based on performance. States are the greatest beneficiaries of the program, receiving up to 82% of the total credit sum as incentive for improved performance under the various disbursement linked indicators (DLIs). States get rewarded for improvements in performance from their own baseline. States in each geopolitical zone are also ranked according to their performance. ...

Kano State Contributory Healthcare Scheme...

In 2016, the Kano State government signed into law, a bill that establishes the Kano State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency (KSCHMA) with the overall goal of ensuring all residents of the state have access to quality and affordable healthcare services with financial and social risk protection. In addition, the DFID funded program MNCH2 provided support for the development of operational guidelines and a benefits package for the contributory healthcare scheme that followed. A 2019 news report noted that access to care under the contributory scheme commenced with only the formal sector, largely civil servants and their dependents (a spouse and 4 biological children), but has since been expanded to include pregnant women and children under-five and civil servants. ...

Basic Healthcare Provision Fund (Huwe Project)...

The Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) is established under Section 11 of the National Health Act (NHA Act), as the principal funding vehicle for the Basic Minimum Package of Health Services (BMPHS.) The Fund serves to increase the fiscal space and overall financing to the health sector to assist Nigeria achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Funding of the BHCPF is to be derived from contributions including — an annual grant from the Federal Government of Nigeria of not less than one per cent (1%) of its Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF); grants by international donor partners; and funds from any other source. Initial funding for the program included 20,000,000 USD from The Global Financing Facility and 2,000,000 USD from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. News reports also noted that DFID committed 50,000,000 GBP to be disbursed over the next 5 years. According to the guideline for the BHCPF, The Basic Minimum Package of Health Services (BMPHS) for Nigeria (2016) shall consist of six (6) interventions; four (4) for Maternal Health, one (1) for Cardiovascular Disease and urinalysis test. According to the mandate in the National Health Act, 50 per cent of the BHCPF is allocated to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) “gateway”, 45 per cent through the NPHCDA “gateway”, and five per cent is set aside to deal with emergencies under the Emergency Medical Treatment (EMT) “gateway”. ...

Mobile Midwife...

Mobile Midwife aimed to deliver medically sound, stage-based health information to pregnant women and nursing mothers by voice in local languages. Subscription costs N30 per week, and each week users received one voice call from the platform with a recorded message tailored to their stage of pregnancy or baby’s age. Each call lasted 1 minute 45 seconds. Users also received a daily SMS with a summary of that week’s voice message and related information. The information was available in English, Pidgin, Hausa, Yoruba, or Igbo. Grameen had already launched such a service, called “Mobile Midwife”, in Ghana under a partnership with the Columbia School of Public Health. Because Airtel Nigeria was engaged early on, it was decided it would be the first operator to launch the service. Grameen Foundation and VAS2Nets awarded Airtel Nigeria a six-month exclusivity period, after which Mobile Midwife would be offered to other local operators as well. The service was launched on Airtel Nigeria’s networks across the country in October 2014 and was offered to other Nigerian mobile operators from March 2015. Grameen’s initial target was to reach 200,000 Nigerian women in the first year, with aggressive growth targets thereafter. ...

Health Commodities and Equipment Procurement (HCP) Project...

This programme was developed by DFID to support the work of PATHS (Partnership for Transforming Health Systems), DFID's longer-term systems strengthening programme which will be jointly responsible for needs assessment, by providing material inputs to improve access and service delivery in the DFID-supported states. The project also included the strengthening of sustainable procurement and logistics systems. Specifically, the project was set up to deliver essential medicines procured for use in government and private health facilities, as well as vaccines, syringes and cold chain equipment provided for routine immunization services. Other objectives were to procure essential equipment for the management of priority health conditions ...

Islamic Opinion Leaders...

Islamic Opinion Leaders was an information intervention aimed as empowering Islamic scholars to enlighten health providers at service delivery points, with the aim to improve health seeking behaviors for men and women. The training for the opinion leaders focused on teaching the correct Islamic precepts on: 1\. family planning/child spacing; 2\. being attended by male health workers; 3\. facility based antenatal care and delivery; 4\. allowing neonates and children to accept polio and routine immunization; and 5\. on age of marriage. The project design was informed by the basic assumption that the health seeking behaviour of women and men accessing services and the health providing practices of health workers in local communities in Northern Nigeria are affected by misperceptions and incorrect information about what is permitted or not permitted within Islam. ...

UNFPA Fistula Fortnight...

In 2005, a total of 564 women were operated on during the "Fistula Fortnight," a two-week surgical effort organized by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, to treat women living with obstetric fistula and train doctors in repair techniques at four sites in northern Nigeria. The “Fistula Fortnight” ran from 21 February through 6 March. The event was part of a UNFPA-led global Campaign to End Fistula, launched in 2003. UNFPA joined forces for the two-week pilot project with Federal and State Nigerian Governments, Virgin Unite, the Nigerian Red Cross, Volunteer Service Overseas, Nigerian non-governmental organizations and health professionals from Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States. ...

UNFPA Maternal Health Thematic Fund ...

The Maternal and Newborn Health Thematic Fund (MHTF) is UNFPA’s flagship programme for improving maternal and newborn health and well-being. It was launched in 2008 to boost global funding and attention to maternal health. In 2010, Nigeria joined the countries that received support from the Maternal Health Thematic Fund. ...

Mamacare Antenatal & MamaCare+N Postnatal Education Program...

Mamacare is a health education program initiated by Wellbeing Foundation Africa. Mamacare aims to provide mothers with critical information on their pregnancy, nutrition, birth preparedness finance, water sanitation and hygiene infection prevention and control, and care of the baby. The MamaCare key program Objectives include: Empowering mothers/pregnant women with information and provide quality respectful maternity care to reduce maternal and newborn deaths in Lagos; And providing accessible high quality antenatal care through the provision of critical information and support for mothers and encouraging the promotion of respectful Maternal Care (WHO recommended) in health facilities. ...

National Data System on Near-miss and Maternal Death ...

The lack of functioning national data sources on maternal deaths and disabilities necessitated this project, to provide a reference point for programme managers, health advocates and policy makers. Public health researchers from referral institutions in Nigeria organized an effort to contribute their quota in the quest towards MDG-5 by providing good quality and reliable information on maternal deaths and disabilities on a continuous basis. Data on maternal near‐miss and death was collected by each of the participating hospitals for 1 year starting from 1 June 2012 through to 14 August 2013. Information on all women admitted for childbirth or within 42 days after giving birth or termination of pregnancy and who experienced life‐threatening complications was recorded. The surveillance was conducted across 42 (87.5%) of the 48 target tertiary health facilities (university hospitals and Federal Medical Centres) in Nigeria during this period. ...

HIV/AIDS Program Development Project...

The project aimed to reduce the spread, and mitigate the impact, of HIV infection by strengthening Nigeria's multi-sectoral response to the epidemic through the implementation of a comprehensive program that includes the creation of an enabling environment for a large scale response, and laying the foundation for scaling up HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment services at the federal, state, and local levels. One of the project's outcome/Impact Indicators specifically relating to maternal health was for the HIV prevalence rate as measured among pregnant women not to exceed 8% by 2005. ...

Second Health Systems Development Project (HSDP II) ...

The Second Health Systems Development Project (HSDP II) worked to support all 36 states in Nigeria to improve the country's maternal and child health status. The objective of the project included improving the delivery of primary and secondary health care services with a particular focus on maternal and child health and reproductive health services in Participating States; and strengthening, at the Federal level, policy formulation and delivery of secondary health care services with a particular focus on maternal and child health and further developing a system to monitor the performance of the health sector . Indicators for project success included an Increased proportion of births attended to by skilled and trained health personnel (% increase in number of births attended by skilled and trained health personnel of total number of births) and an increased percentage of pregnant women attending antenatal clinics. In a 2012 report of the projects results, the outcome of the project was rated "Moderately Unsatisfactory" and Nigeria's performance as a borrower was also rated "Moderately Unsatisfactory" The original Development Credit agreement in the amount of SDR 101.8 million (US$127 million), was approved on June 6, 2002. It became effective on May 23, 2003 and the original closing date was December 31, 2006. In 2008, additional financing in the amount of US$90 million was proposed. ...

Malaria Control Booster Project...

The Project Development Objectives of the Malaria Control Booster Project includes ensuring that the target population had improved access to, and utilization of, a well-defined set of Malaria Plus Package interventions (MPP); and to strengthen Federal and States ability to manage and oversee delivery of malaria plus interventions. ...

HIV/AIDS Programme Development Project II (HPDP II)...

The objective of The World Bank funded project was to reduce the risk of HIV infections by scaling up prevention interventions and to increase access to, and utilization of HIV counseling, testing, care and support services. Components of the project included: (1) The expansion of Public Sector Institutions’ Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic (2) The expansion of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Private Sector’s Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic (3) The strengthening Mechanisms for Project Coordination and Management The HIV/AIDS Program Development Project was launched officially in 2009 as a follow up to the First Nigeria HIV/AIDS Program Development Project launched in 2002, with a total IDA contribution of US$90.3 million. In 2016, Society for Family Health was engaged as an Implementing Partner to provide training, supervision and mentoring, quality control, data management, demand creation and community involvement activities to 210 Private Health Facilities (PHFs) in the project states. ...

Abiye (Safe Motherhood) Project...

In response to the 2008 Nigeria Demographic Health Survey (NDHS), which put Ondo State as having the worst maternal and child health indices in the southwest of Nigeria, the state implemented a program to address the four most prevalent reasons why women in the state die during or after childbirth. Ondo State trained 'health rangers' to monitor pregnant women in their ward. The health rangers helped women register with health facilities, prepared birth plans, and accompanied them to antenatal appointments. The government provided transportation for the health rangers, motorbikes and a fleet of ambulances, to ensure that women easily reached health facilities without delays. Ondo State also upgraded and refurbished primary health facilities, provided medical supplies and personnel trained in safe delivery practices, emergency obstetric care, and newborn care. It also created two hospitals to handle emergencies and referrals. ...

Construction of Maternal and Child Health Clinics in Bauchi...

With the support of the World Bank Community Based Urban Development Projects, the Bauchi State Primary Healthcare Development Agency constructed (2) new Maternal and Child Health Clinics at Federal Low Cost Bauchi and T/wadan Dan Amar Bauchi while K/Dumi Primary Health Centre were renovated and upgraded all in 2011. ...

Nigeria States Health Investment Project (NSHIP)...

The Nigeria State Health Investment Project (NSHIP), is a World Bank Assisted Project whose major objectives are to improve the delivery and use of high impact maternal and child health interventions and improve care at selected facilities in the participating states, by ensuring pro-poor focus. NSHIP began as a pre-pilot in 2011 in one LGA in each of the project states of Adamawa, Nasarawa and Ondo, and was scaled up to all the 50 LGAs in the three states (Adamawa 19, Nasarawa 13 and Ondo 18) since 2014, with half receiving performance-based financing (PBF) and the remaining block grants in the form of decentralized facility financing (DFF) NSHIP is financed with International Development Association (IDA) credit of US$150 million to the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGoN) with subsidiary financing agreements with the three project States (IDA 50940); and a Health Results Innovation Trust Fund (HRITF) grant of US$20 million (TF 13432). The project which became effective on August 20, 2013 had an intended closing date of June 30, 2018 which was extended to June 30, 2020 in 2016 as part of the changes in the additional financing. In June 2016, additional financing of US$145 million was approved for the project: $125 million IDA credit and US$20 million Global Financing Facility (GFF) grant to scale up the parent project to the North-Eastern (NE) States of Nigeria (Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe). ...

Saving One Million Lives - Programs For Results ...

Saving One Million Lives - Programs For Results is a slight reimagination of the initial Saving One Million Lives program piloted in October, 2012. The Program for Results (PforR) is a performance based program of the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGON) assisted by the World Bank. The program is financed by a $500million International Development Association (IDA) credit to the Federal Republic of Nigeria over a period of 4 years. The resources are then disbursed to the states based on performance. States are the greatest beneficiaries of the program, receiving up to 82% of the total credit sum as incentive for improved performance under the various disbursement linked indicators (DLIs). States get rewarded for improvements in performance from their own baseline. States in each geopolitical zone are also ranked according to their performance. ...

National Data System on Near-miss and Maternal Death ...

The lack of functioning national data sources on maternal deaths and disabilities necessitated this project, to provide a reference point for programme managers, health advocates and policy makers. Public health researchers from referral institutions in Nigeria organized an effort to contribute their quota in the quest towards MDG-5 by providing good quality and reliable information on maternal deaths and disabilities on a continuous basis. Data on maternal near‐miss and death was collected by each of the participating hospitals for 1 year starting from 1 June 2012 through to 14 August 2013. Information on all women admitted for childbirth or within 42 days after giving birth or termination of pregnancy and who experienced life‐threatening complications was recorded. The surveillance was conducted across 42 (87.5%) of the 48 target tertiary health facilities (university hospitals and Federal Medical Centres) in Nigeria during this period. ...

National Reproductive Health Policy and Strategy...

The National Reproductive Health Policy and Strategy aims to provide the necessary guidance and framework for the promotion and implementation of reproductive health programmes and activities. The ultimate aim of this policy is to serve as an effective national platform for strengthening reproductive health activities in Nigeria and facilitating the achievement of relevant global and regional goals in the interest of improved health, well-being, and overall quality of lives of all peoples in Nigeria. ...

Misoprostol Use Approved for Postpartum Hemorrhage ...

In January 2006, The Nigerian National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) approved the use of Misoprostol for the prevention or treatment of Postpartum Hemorrhage (PPH) in hospitals and clinics. That same year, Misoprostol was added to the national essential drugs list for the prevention and treatment of PPH. ...

Integrated Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (IMNCH) Strategy...

The IMNCH strategy aims to ensure the integrated implementation of evidence based interventions for MNCH. It involves reorienting the health system to ensure the delivery of essential interventions and to provide a continuum of care for women, newborns and children. ...

Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Week (MNCHW)...

MNCH Week (MNCHW) is a week-long event organized by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), State Primary Health Care development agencies, and the State Ministries of Health. The week is organised to deliver an integrated package of highly cost-effective and curative services/interventions like antenatal care in order to strengthen the routine PHC services. The NPHCDA describes the week as ‘a simple one-time delivery mechanism that consolidates services that are likely to immediately demonstrate impact in terms of significantly increasing coverage levels of core preventive and curative interventions that can improve the health of mothers and children'. ...

Primary Healthcare Under One Roof (PHCUOR)...

Primary Health Care Under One Roof (PHCUOR) otherwise known as Integrated PHC Governance, is a primary health care (PHC) reform promoted by the Government of Nigeria to integrate the PHC structures and programs at sub-national levels, under one state-level body – the State Primary Health Care Development Agency or Board (SPHCDA/B) within the framework of a decentralized health system. The policy is based on the principle of “Three Ones”: One Management, One Plan and One Monitoring & Evaluation System. ...

Saving One Million Lives (SOML)...

In 2012, former Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan launched Saving One Million Lives with a goal to save one million women and children from death by 2015. The initiative focused on evidence-based and cost effective interventions that aimed to address the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. Some of the programs specific objectives included: Improving Maternal, Newborn and Child Health through delivering interventions at primary health care clinics and the prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV. The program was supported by federal government budgetary provisions like the Millenium Development Goal Debt Relief Grants and SURE-P, in addition to funding from other international donor agencies. After the 2015 presidential election, the program was restructured to become Saving One Million Lives Programs for Results. ...

Minimum Standards for Primary Health Care in Nigeria...

The Minimum Standards for Primary Healthcare in Nigeria is intended to uniformly define for the various levels of fixed health facilities in Nigeria, the Minimum Standards for PHC structures (systems, staffing, equipment and service delivery) at Local Government level in order to improve the access and quality of services. It is also intended as a vital tool for effective supervision, monitoring and evaluation and to aid effective planning, development and delivery of PHC services. ...

Family Planning Blueprint - Scale-Up Plan...

The goal of the Family Planning Blueprint is to raise the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) among married women from 15 percent to 36 percent and contribute to the reduction of maternal mortality by 75 percent and infant mortality by 66 percent across Nigeria by 2018. ...

Community Health Influencers Promoters and Services Programme (CHIPS)...

The Community Health Influencers Promoters and Services Programme (CHIPS) is the deployment of community-based health workers in nearly 10,000 wards of Nigeria, with an emphasis on the hard-to-reach areas. President Muhammadu Buhari launched a pilot of the programme in 2018 at Kwandare, Lafia council area, on a state visit to Nasarawa. ...

Health Care Plus...

Health Care plus is a Maternal and Newborn Health Intervention Programme launched in 2018 by Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State. Health Care Plus offers free maternal health and childcare services to pregnant women in the state. Eligible services include antenatal care, delivery and postnatal services. Other health care initiative under Health Care Plus include the distribution of delivery kits, postpartum hemorrhage packs, hypertensive packs, episiotomy packs and the launching of health rangers, which are Community Health Extension Workers and Social workers selected to follow up on registered Pregnant women to ensure they utilize health facilities in the state. ...

Accelerated Reduction of Maternal and Neonatal Mortality ...

The roadmap on Accelerated Reduction of Maternal and Neonatal Mortality is expected to guide implementation of key priority steps at the states and the community levels to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality. ...

National Emergency Maternal and Child Health Intervention Centre (NEMCHIC)...

In 2019, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency declared a state of Emergency on Maternal and Child Mortality. Following the declaration, the agency established a coordination Centre to be known as the National Emergency Maternal and Child Health Intervention Centre (NEMCHIC) with a goal to reverse maternal, newborn and child deaths by half by 2021 through interventions that target the primary health care and community levels. Reports by Premium Times note that the executive director of the agency said the centre would also increase data visibility and quality towards the "improving detection and responsiveness in the resolution of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH+N) service gap." ...

Assisted Reproductive Clinic / IVF Centre - LUTH...

In 2015, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, reopened its Assisted Reproductive Clinic after closing in the mid 1990's due to a lack of institutional and government support. According to Premium Times, this centre was one of the five government-owned IVF clinics in Nigeria. In the 2014 and 2015 Appropriation Acts, ₦24,436,216 and ₦25,999,966 were allocated respectively to equipping of the IVF Centre. ...

The National Malaria Strategic Plan 2014 - 2020...

The National Malaria Strategic Plan 2014 - 2020 is a strategic plan from the Federal Ministry of Health that aimed to reduce the malaria burden to pre-elimination levels and bring malaria-related mortality to zero by 2020. The major national targets as outlined in the National Malaria Strategic Plan (NMSP) 2014-2020 are as follows: 1. At least 80 percent of targeted populations utilise appropriate preventive measures by 2020; 2. To ensure that all persons with suspected malaria who seek care are tested with RDTs or microscopy by 2020; 3. All persons with malaria seen in private, public health facilities or community agents receive prompt treatment with an effective anti-malarial drug by 2020; 4. At least 80 percent of the population practice appropriate malaria prevention and management by 2020; 5. Put in place a system for timely availability of appropriate antimalarial medicines and commodities required for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of malaria in Nigeria by 2018; 6. At least 80 percent of health facilities in all LGAs report routinely on malaria by 2020, progress is measured, and evidence is used for programme improvement; 7. To strengthen governance and coordination of all stakeholders for effective programme implementation towards an ‘A’ rating by 2017 that is sustained through to 2020 on a standardised scorecard. ...

Mother's Delivery Kit...

Mother's Delivery Kit is a product delivered by Brown Button Foundation, a social enterprise based in Lagos. The sterile maternal kit is distributed to pregnant mothers and health professionals in rural communities across Nigeria to promote safe births. The kits retail for $5 or N1,500. ...

ỌMỌMI...

ỌMỌMI Mobile web and app is a health and social platform based on the WHO/UNICEF Childhood Survival Strategies, which has a unique range of features that helps parents keep their children healthy by enabling them easily monitor their children’s health. With the app, mothers can ask health questions anonymously and receive answers from medical professionals.The app also includes guidance on family planning, breastfeeding, food supplementation and diarrhea management and tools like a fertility calculator and child immunization and growth trackers. The app also features a community forum that allows users to support each other and share best practice. OMOMI is part of MOBIcure, a company that uses technological solutions to solve pressing health issues in Nigeria. ...