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December 27, 2021
Plus in September 2021. The project aimed at organizational capacity building for women led Non-governmental organizations in Kogi and elsewhere. 3 were selected from Kogi and 4 from Kaduna state under our project managers. The initial capacity profile assessment showed an average baseline of 34% and 44% respectively for both states with the minimum and maximum of 15% and 47% respectively. • Seventeen plus provided trainings, mentorship and collaboration on 7 programme areas assessed. In the […]
June 28, 2021
• The project focused on interview of persons in the transgender community in Abuja, seeking to expose the struggles of stigma and discrimination faced by these groups and seek recommendations from them on integration. • Seventeen plus foundation mobilized a number of these community members using ingenious means and interviewed 8 persons, 7 females and 1 male at the time of interview. • We realized a diverse, hidden and neglected group of persons whose voice may […]
March 19, 2019
PHOTO SPLASH FROM THE JUST CONCLUDED 21ST NTD STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING “I am an accountant by training. When I heard of NTDs, what came to my mind was Leprosy and other similar diseases, I just knew now that it is beyond that…I know a number of persons in my village who are still suffering .… I pledge my support for NTDs from now on.” – Alhaji A. M. Abdullahi, Permanent Secretary, FMOH “I am an old […]
March 5, 2019
Imo State NTD department held their strategic/ micro planning meeting at Owerri this week, on the 6th and 7th of March, 2019. In attendance were the South East NTD zonal coordinator, the Director Public Health from the state’s ministry of Health, the Director Public Health care, Ministry of Local government Affairs, the Director of Training, SUBEB, The Carter Centre officials, 27 LGA NTD Coordinators in the State and their PHC Coordinators as well as all the […]
January 21, 2019
FMOH NTD DIVISION HOLDS 7TH ANNUAL NATIONAL REVIEW MEETING, JANUARY 2019 The Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Division of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), with support from the World Health Organisation (WHO), organized a 3-day meeting for the review of NTD control and elimination activities implemented in the 36 states and FCT in 2018. The meeting took place in Enugu from 16th to 18th January, 2019. Participants at the meeting included the FMOH NTD National Coordinator, […]
December 15, 2018
NORTH-WEST ZONAL NTD REVIEW MEETING GETS CONCLUDED, NOVEMBER 2018 The Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Division of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH), with support from Development Alternative Incorporation (DAI) Global Health, organized a 3-day review meeting last weekend for the North-Western (NW) zone. Participants at the meeting include the FMoH NTD National Coordinator; represented by the Programme Manager, Onchocerciasis/Lymphatic Filariasis; the Heads of Monitoring & Evaluation, and Supply Chain Management units, NTD NW Acting Zonal Coordinator […]
December 3, 2018
This week, the South – West zone held its zonal review meeting to assess the extent of implementation of NTD activities in 2018 as well as the treatment data and medicine consumption. The participants at the meeting include the NTD National Coordinator, FMOH program officers, the Zonal Coordinator and staff, NTDs State Coordinators and data managers from the 6 (six) States in the zone (Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti States); NGDO representatives from RTI/ENVISION, […]
November 25, 2018
This week, the North-Central zone held its zonal review meeting to assess the extent of implementation of NTD activities in 2018 as well as the treatment data for all the states in the zone. Some of the participants at the meeting include the NTD National Coordinator, the LF National Program Manager, the Head of Monitoring and Evaluation unit of the FMOH, the Supply Chain Management Focal person; the North-Central Zonal Coordinator and staff, the State coordinators […]
November 16, 2018
SOUTH-WEST NTD OFFICE HOSTS AGM OF FEDERAL PARASTATALS IN ONDO STATE The South-West NTD zonal office, this week, hosted the Annual General Meeting of the Ondo State chapter of Federal parastatals in Nigeria. During this meeting, the SW NTD Zonal office highlighted their achievements so far. These include improved geographic and therapeutic coverages for NTD treatment across the SW states and significant reduction in the burden of worm infestation among children, among others. UPDATE: ONCHOCERCIASIS/LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS […]