“It is amazing how evidence-based, community-centered social and behavior change interventions have changed TB case finding in Nigeria,” says Bolatito Aiyenigba, deputy project director for Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria.
Community volunteers trained by the CCP-led Breakthrough ACTION project are dispatched to provide critical nutrition advice to new parents.
A new social mobilization approach, led by The Challenge Initiative, has significantly increased the number of women receiving family planning services in health facilities.
CCP’s Breakthrough ACTION project has helped local governments develop a network of volunteer drivers to help moms and babies get treatment when transportation is too costly.
Since CCP-led Breakthrough ACTION began a COVID-19 vaccination awareness campaign in Nigeria, vaccination rates have increased by 75 percent.
Not all fevers are malaria, but CCP interventions in Nigeria aim to get everyone with a fever tested and treated, and to look deeper into cases of those with negative tests.
“We are proud to be able to continue serving people around the world who want to be protected from what is still a global pandemic,” says the director of the Breakthrough ACTION project.
“The mechanism works,” says CCP’s Victor Igharo, who leads The Challenge Initiative in Nigeria, to enable donor and government involvement.
This marks the first time CCP has received special funds to address monkeypox, a public health emergency of international concern.
Successful CCP-led project dramatically increased the number of TB cases identified in Nigeria, even as other nations fell behind during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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