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Name: HOPE FOR POSITIVE COUPLES IN NIGERIA {HOPOC}
Street 1: 2,ONIREKE LAYOUT,NIGERIAN RED CROSS COMPOUND,DUGBE,IBADAN
Street 2: 2,ONIREKELAYOUT,BESIDE IBADAN NORTHWEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT,RED CROSS COMPOUND,DUGBE.
City: IBADAN
Province: OYO
Post Code:
Country: Nigeria
Phone: 07058072610,08033199849
Email: hopocnigeria@yahoo.com
Web Site:

Focal Point Contact Information

Salutation: MR
First Name: OLAWALE
Last Name: FAITH
Title: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Email: faith_ola2000@yahoo.com
Phone: +234{0}8033199849

Alternate Focal Point Contact Information

Salutation: Mrs
First Name: Olawale
Last Name: Mary
Title: Coordinator
Email: mary_ola4real@yahoo.com
Phone: +2348032195460

General Information

Organization Type - Primary: Academic / Research Institution
Organization Type - Secondary: None
Is your organization legally registered in your country: Yes
Organization Reach: National
Organization Description:
Hope for positive couples in Nigeria is a non-profit,non-religious and non-governmental organisation of couples living with HIV/AIDS and TB in Nigeria.Our VISION is to see a Nigerian Society where couples living with HIV/AIDS and TB are cared for not stigmatised or discriminated against but are given equal rights and opportunities.Our MISSION isto contribute to the prevention, care and control of HIV/AIDS and TB in Nigeriaand also advocating legal and policy reforms and empowering members to get more involved in HIV/AIDS and TB activities.Our GOAL is to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS and TB on the couples and individuals infected with it and people affected by it including vulnerable children. The Organisation is interested in tuberculosis because most of the members have one time or the other been infected with TB bacilli.We are well informed about it and most of our activities is to assign some members to various DOT Centres and especially the STATE CHEST HOSPITAL,Jericho, Ibadan to deliver talks on TB and related issues.
 
Total number of staff in your organization: 1 - 5
Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: 1 - 5
Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: 6 - 10
Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: 6 - 10
 
What is your organization's annual budget (USD) dedicated to TB? $1,001-$5,000
How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: Involvement in TB control provision
Why do you wish join the Stop TB Partnership: Involvement in Stop TB Working Groups
 
Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: Nigeria
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:
HOPOC as an organization has been involved in so many TB activities which contributes to the control plan of TB such as *Community TB care *Social Community Mobilisation on TB *Community Dialogue Meetings *Referal of TB suspects for screening.etc
 

Geographical Reach

Which country is your headquarters located in: Nigeria
Which WHO region is the main focus of your work: African
Which countries do you do operate in:
(This includes countries you are conducting activities in)		 Nigeria

Specializations

Advocacy, communication and social mobilization
Funding
Research and Development
TB Healthcare Services
Technical Assistance

Specializations in Countries

Advocacy, communication and social mobilization 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:

DOTS Expansion and Enhancement:
like i said, HOPOC have conducted many advocacy visits to gatekeepers at various communities on TB which most of the time we got approval communications and social mobilisations with positive results

TB-HIV:
HOPOC as an organization of couples living with HIV & AIDS. Many of our members includind myself the E Director have also experienced TB-HIV co-infections which gave us more oppotunities to be commited in the work.Thiese activities is not limited to our organisation but extend it to other parts of Oyo State and Nigeria. However,i am the current TB state Coordinator.

Declaration

Declaration of interests:
The organisation is hereby declare with interest to be registered with Global Partnership to stop TB and have agreed to abide with its policy.HOPOC will continue to work harder in making sure that we partners with other stop TB organisations in the country and Globally.

Application date: September 20, 2010
Last updated: October 16, 2012