Nigeria

FHI 360 works with international and local partners in Nigeria to improve health outcomes and access to health care, strengthen health systems, reduce malnutrition, improve children’s access to quality education, and deliver humanitarian assistance. 

In partnership with the government of Nigeria, FHI 360 strengthens local capacity for the delivery of sustainable, high-quality and comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services. In addition to providing service interventions, FHI 360 has supported local organizations in implementing strategic behavior change communications to prevent new HIV infections and reduce and stabilize HIV prevalence. For example, FHI 360 assisted the Achieving Health Nigeria Initiative (AHNi), a Nigerian nonprofit, to become a first-time prime recipient of a USAID award by strengthening its operational and financial management capacities. Now, AHNi leads a project to control the HIV epidemic in Nigeria’s Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states.  

To improve nutrition, we work with the government of Nigeria, UNICEF and local organizations to implement infant and young child feeding interventions in Lagos and Kaduna states. These interventions mobilize learning, advocacy and strategic partnerships to put nutrition support and services within reach for all people in Nigeria. In partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, we enhance nutrition policies and programs by increasing the availability, quality, comparability and use of reliable dietary data and metrics. 

In partnership with DAI, we also work to improve the quality and relevance of education for school-age children, including orphans and vulnerable children — especially girls. FHI 360 works closely with Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Education to improve early grade reading, provide teacher professional development and mentoring, and implement an education-in-emergencies activity that addresses the needs of children through safe, nonformal and formal education. 

Over the past few years, FHI 360 expanded efforts to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis in northeast Nigeria. Since 2017, FHI 360 has used an integrated approach to increase access to quality health services; improve the nutritional status of pregnant, lactating women and children under five; increase access to and use of safe, water, sanitation and hygiene services; and implement gender-based violence and support services. FHI 360 has also rapidly responded to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as climate change crises, including unprecedented flooding. 

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A look inside Nigeria’s lifesaving cholera treatment units

By 8 a.m., as many as a dozen patients were already waiting to see a doctor at FHI 360’s cholera treatment unit in Borno State, Nigeria, in the country’s worst cholera outbreak in years.