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Name: Afrihealth Information Projects/Afrihealth Optonet Association
Street 1: Plot 1907, Sokode Crescent
Street 2: P.O. Box 8880
City: Wuse
Province: Abuja
Post Code: 23409
Country: Nigeria
Phone: 2348034725905
Email: afrihealthoptonet_ng@yahoo.com
Web Site: http://afrihealthoptonet.kabissa.org

Focal Point Contact Information

Salutation: Dr
First Name: Dr. Uzodinma
Last Name: Adirieje
Title: Programs Director/Secretary General
Title: Programs Director/Secretary General
Email: uaadirieje3@gmail.com

TB activities you're involved in:

Advocacy, communication and social mobilization
Health Promotion
Media
Patient-led activities and social mobilization
Political and national advocacy
TB education and awareness raising
Funding
Advocacy
Capacity Building for partner initiatives
Health system strengthening
Research
TB control
Manufacture of TB products
1st line adult drugs
1st line paediatric drugs
2nd line drugs
Research
Basic research
Epidemiological
Health Economics Research
Health systems, services and policy research
MDR-TB
Operational Research
TB/HIV
Vaccines
TB Healthcare Services
Community Care
DOTS Expansion
Drug Provision
MDR-TB
TB/HIV
Workplace services
Technical Assistance
Advocacy
Frontline TB Services/ Programme Implementation (operational: treatment and diagnostics)
Global Fund application
Human Resources training (Drs, nurses, researchers, NGOs)
Partnership building
Research
 

General Information

Organization Type: NGO - National Development

Organization Description:
Afrihealth Optonet Association (AOA) is a Nigerian non-governmental organisation (NGO), incorporated under the companies and allied matters law of 1990 as a not-for-profit, nonpartisan, nonreligious organization/trustee. It is involved in health and development research, policy analyses, advocacy, mobilization, communications, capacity building, trainings, public education and community interventions. Its activities focus on HIV/AIDS/TB, Health Reforms, Nutrition, Maternal & Child Health, Health-related MDGs, Blindness Prevention and Rehabilitation, Healthcare financing, and Immunisation.
Its objectives include: advocating and mobilising for the general health of the community and society providing health information and education conducting research on healthcare issues including maternal and child health, population, nutrition, and the environment intervening with relevant services to promote health for the whole family and society. It comprises Afrihealth Information Projects, Optonet International and GAHADA Partners.
Established in 1995, Afrihealth achieves its goals through awareness raising, workshops, seminars, civil society engagements, capacity building and gender training sessions; networking, lobbying, institutional support and participatory rural appraisal (PRA) in an effort to foster integrated development, especially in rural and poor urban communities and for vulnerable groups [poorest of the poor, women, children, elderly]. It adopts bottom-up, people-specific, gender-sensitive and participatory approaches.
 
Which Working Group(s) will you participate in: TB/HIV
No of staff who are directly involved with TB: 1 - 5
Which country are you based in: Nigeria
Which country/ies do you do operate in: Andorra
Which WHO region is the main focus of your work: African
Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: Unknown
How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: Unknown
Why do you wish join the Stop TB Partnership: Unknown

Declaration of interests
None

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