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

Focal Point Contact Information

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

Stop TB Partner 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.
 
How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: Unknown
 
Why do you wish join the Stop TB Partnership: Unknown
 
What TB activity\ies are you mainly 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
 
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
 

Declaration of interests

None