Sola Ogundipe
25 November 2008
Doctors and nurses in private health facilities in Lagos State are to benefit from a training programme on the diagnosis and management of HIV/TB co-infections.
The move which is in line with the on-going projects put together by Human Development and Public Health Initiative (HUDPHI), expected to kick-off in December 2008.
There is also a plan to work with the National Agency for Control of AIDS (NACA), NASCP and othere development partners in updating their database on HIV & AIDS in Nigeria.
In a chat with Good Health Weekly, Chairman, Board of Directors, HUDPHI, Chief Emmanuel Ijewere, said in the first quarter of 2009, HUDPHI would be working with community-based organisations to enhance TB activities within the communities.
Ijewere said the initiative is part of efforts to bridge the gaps created by inadequate infrastruture and lack of requisite capacity that have remained the bane of quality health-care delivery.
He remarked that with HUDPHI on track, there would be means to develop human capacity and support qualititaive health care delivery and management at the community, primary and secondary health care levels.
Also, there would be capacity to conduct health systems and operational research targeted at reducing morbidity and mortality of diseases and other high-burden conditions while carrying out advocacy and health education programmes to im[prove healthcare and life expectancy in the country.
He said the organisation which comprises experienced Biomedical and Social scientists, public Health physicians and health development professionals.
Also speaking, a member of the organisation, Dr. Oni Idigbe said the HIV & AIDS database project seeks to make available a single document on various aspects of HIV & AIDS response in Nigeria at all levels. Idigbe noted that HUDPHI had worked closely with other partners to develop the document.
"It was achieved through collation, analysis and segregation of all national data retrieved from records of health and laboratory facilities across the six geo political zones of the country between 1989 and 1999."
He said the document has served as an important resource document for various HIV & AIDS programmes.
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