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| Name: | Hygeia Foundation |
| Street 1: | 214 Broad Street |
| Street 2: | Apongbon End by Leventis Bus Stop |
| City: | Lagos Island |
| Province: | Lagos |
| Post Code: | 100221 |
| Country: | Nigeria |
| Phone: | +234 (1) 6283800 |
| Organization Email: | hftb@hygeiagroup.com |
| Web Site: | http://www.hygeiagroup.com |
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General Information | |
| Board Constituency: | Developing Country NGO |
| Is your organization legally registered in your country: | Yes |
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| Organization Type - Primary: | Non-Governmental Organization |
| Organization Type - Secondary: | Other Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) |
| Organization Description: | |
| Hygeia Nigeria Limited Foundation (HNLF) is a member of the Hygeia group of companies, Hygeia Nigeria Limited (HNL). HNLF started out in 2005 as learning center with core competence in providing capacity building for health care profession in reproductive health; comprehensive HIV management and HIV/TB collaborative activities; and malaria treatment. This was informed by the knowledge gap identified in the country in the early years of HIV/AIDS management as well as the need to improve maternal mortality outcome through provision of quality integrated reproductive health services in Nigeria. In March 2007, HNLF through documented successes in providing capacity buildings for the management of HIV/AIDS, to both Hygeia Health Maintenance organization (HHMO) a member of the HNL and other indigenous private organization including public health institutions was selected through competitive bidding to become the first Nigerian indigenous organization to implement comprehensive HIV/AIDS program intervention. This was under the Global Fund Round 5 grant to Fight AIDS, TB and malaria (GF R5 ATM) where as a sub-recipient to National Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, HNLF scope focused on scaling up comprehensive HIV/AIDS interventions in private health facilities across the 37 states of the country including F.C.T. Over the years of implementation, HNLF has continued to provide interventions on HIV/AIDS management through successive grant biding as well as grant consolidations of Round 9 GFATM. This grant consolidation has expanded service provision to additional 25 PHCs to support PMTCT services using the hub and spoke/cluster model in Nigeria. In this capacity Hygeia Foundation has provided trainings, supportive supervision, hands on mentoring and on-site monitoring to health care workers in program interventions. HNLF supports 34 hospital networks across the 37 states of Nigeria including F.C.T. Through this support, as at the end of January 2012 HNLF has enrolled 41,795 PLHIV into care while 29 |
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Specializations / Areas of Work | |
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Advocacy Delivery of health services and care Provision of drugs, diagnostics and commodities Research and Development Technical Assistance |
Other Organization Information | |
| Total number of staff in your organization: | 11 - 25 |
| Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 6 - 10 |
| Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 0 |
| Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: | 26 - 50 |
| How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: | Involvement in TB control provision |
| If you were informed or referred by another partner of the Stop TB Partnership please tell us who: | |
| Why do you wish join the Stop TB Partnership: | Technical assistance and advice |
| Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: | No |
| Are you in contact with your national TB programme: | Yes |
| Please tell us how your organization is contributing to your country's national TB control plan: | |
| A a Sub recipient to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria,overseeing HIV care in 12 secondary health facilities and 75 Primary Health Centers in 3 states of the federation as the Lead Global Fund Implementing Partner, it is imperative to alighn all HIV activities at the sites with TB for full integrated service delivery. Hence our qquest to be in frontline of Tb networking, collaboration search for skills and knowledge. | |
Geographical Reach | |
| Which country is your headquarters located in: | Nigeria |
| Which countries do you do operate in: (This includes countries you are conducting activities in) |
Nigeria |
Contribution | |
| Please tell us how your organization will contribute to the Global Plan to Stop TB by briefly describing its involvement in any of the areas of work listed below: | |
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TB Care Delivery: Hygeia Foundation as a pace setter in Private health sector participation in national HIV response is in the forefront advocating to the National TB program to expand DOTS services to all centers offering ART including private hospitals and faith-based health organization across Nigeria. Drug-Resistant TB: Through strong referral networking and adherence counselling, we have ensure that all clients in our program are effectively followed up to ensure above 90% completion of the TB treatment. We are constantly working to expand access to TB services in all our supported sites |
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Declaration | |
| Declaration of interests: None | |
| Application date: | June 6, 2013 |
| Last updated: | July 30, 2013 |