Selected Achievements

  • HIV testing services have been provided to more than 2.6 million people, newly identifying more than 74,000 as HIV-positive and linking more than 72,000 to care and treatment.

  • Through the Reaching Impact, Saturation, and Epidemic Control (RISE) project, more than 1.5 million COVID-19 vaccinations have been delivered through efforts across state and local governments.

  • Jhpiego provided technical assistance for the development of updated national guidelines for HIV testing services. These guidelines now incorporate recency testing (testing to determine how recently an individual was infected with the virus) and other methods such as HIV self-testing, partner notification services (index testing), and dual rapid diagnostic tests for HIV and syphilis.

  • Through a groundbreaking community-based approach, Jhpiego expanded treatment of malaria in pregnancy, thereby reducing the high risks malaria poses to pregnant women and their newborns. The approach has led to a dramatic increase in pregnant women receiving a third dose of intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp3). Household study results in the three districts have shown that IPTp3 coverage increased from 11.5% in 2018 to 62.7% in 2021.

Our Projects

Reducing Maternal Mortality and Morbidity

Accelerating Measurable Progress and Leveraging Investments for Postpartum Hemorrhage (AMPLI-PPHI) Extension. Funded by Unitaid, this project catalyzes early adoption and readiness for scale-up of under-utilized recommended drugs to prevent or treat postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) in Kebbi and Ondo states. Specific aims of the project are:

  • To generate evidence to guide the World Health Organization (WHO) toward global policy decision in the prevention and management of PPH.

  • To increase access to the recommended drugs/commodities for prevention and treatment of PPH (heat stable carbetocin, tranexamic acid, misoprostol, and the use of calibrated drapes to estimate blood loss after childbirth).

  • To improve early antenatal care attendance and institutional delivery and increase access to and utilization of quality assured postpartum hemorrhage drugs and commodities.

  • To improve connections between healthcare facilities and the community by involving local stakeholders in developing tailored solutions that consider people’s needs and perspectives.

HIV Interruption in Treatment Modeling

Funded by the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, this project is designed to enhance the care of people living with HIV.

  • We use machine learning to identify clients who are likely to stop their treatment, allowing us to provide tailored support to improve their health outcomes. We are scaling up the use of machine learning insights in Kwara, Taraba, and Niger states.

  • We integrate the interruption in treatment risk model into electronic medical record systems across health facilities.

Integrating self-care into health systems

In partnership with Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, health care provider networks, and other implementing organizations, the Delivering Innovation in Self-Care 2 (DISC 2.0) project integrates self-care into health systems, bringing care closer to women and amplifying their voice, choice, and agency. We implement DISC 2.0 in Sokoto with technical support from Population Services International and funding from the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation.

  • We promote the use of self-care methods for contraception, including self-injection techniques like DMPA-SC.

  • We design and scale up demand generation and work with health workers through skills-building programs that raise awareness about self-care and strengthen the quality of care.

  • We improve health workers’ motivation, capacity, and accountability and work with regulatory bodies to support effective use of self-injection.

Comprehensive Emergency Obstetrics & Newborn Care

To address the high maternal and newborn mortality rates in Nigeria, the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, the Sector Wide-Approach Coordinating Office and the Nigeria Governors’ Forum collaborated with Jhpiego to conduct a nationwide assessment of comprehensive emergency obstetrics and newborn care facilities.

  • The aim of the assessment is to understand how prepared state-designated health facilities are to provide comprehensive emergency obstetrics and newborn care services and to identify opportunities to improve the quality of services for pregnant women and newborns.

  • We are working to determine the status of comprehensive emergency obstetrics and newborn care services, implementation and use of lifesaving procedures.

  • We are assessing the availability of infrastructure, equipment, essential drugs, and supplies in 774 comprehensive emergency obstetrics and newborn care facilities in each local government area of Nigeria.

  • We will provide a set of recommendations to improve the quality of comprehensive emergency obstetrics and newborn care services provided in the designated health facilities in each state.

Delivering High-Quality Care

Funded by The Global Fund, Jhpiego’s Quality Improvement Project works with state governments in Jigawa, Gombe, and Ekiti to plan and operationalize systems that help health facilities and community health workers use quality improvement approaches to deliver high-quality services to clients.

  • We train health facility staff and community health improvement program managers to use quality improvement approaches that improve services for HIV; tuberculosis; malaria; maternal, newborn, and child health; and COVID-19.

  • To improve patient outcomes through quality improvement structures, we focus on on-site support, peer-to-peer support, group problem solving, supervisor support, and program management for health facilities and community health improvement programs.

  • We build quality improvement skills and develop strategies to sustain health workers’ skills through pre-service training, orientation for new and transferred staff, and ongoing support and supervision for staff.

  • We continue to work together across national, state, and local government levels to manage quality improvement activities, and improve the management of data and clinical supervision.

  • We provide technical assistance to the government to plan, scale up, and integrate quality improvement services into the health system.

Improving Access to Lifesaving Health Services

MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership

  • MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership, funded by the United States Government, is a global mechanism that saves lives and improves access to quality, integrated health services by distributing life-saving commodities, medicines, and vaccines, and providing critical health care services for pregnant mothers and children under five. The project provides safe childbirth for mothers and babies, vaccinates children, treats deadly illnesses and malnutrition, and controls disease outbreaks.

    Learn more here: Momentum Country and Global Leadership

Country Director

Dr. Adetiloye Oniyire

Senior Hub Director for Anglophone African Countries and Country Director for Jhpiego Nigeria