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SFH ACCESS Reflects and Strategises for 2025 at Annual Business Retreat

The SFH ACCESS Annual Business Retreat has taken place from January 12th to 18th, 2025, at Ibeto Hotel, Abuja. Bringing together the innovative Access team, the retreat served as a platform to review 2024 achievements, strategise for 2025, and chart a path toward redefining telemedicine and overall health solutions. About 100 staff from across the country gathered to share ideas, foster collaboration, and align on the theme, “Accelerating Impact through Efficiency: Leveraging Technology, Techniques, and Partnerships.” This reflects SFH ACCESS’s commitment to growth, innovation, and delivering exceptional healthcare services to its stakeholders.

 
In his keynote address, Pharm Dennis Aizobu, Managing Director of SFH ACCESS, highlighted the organisation’s strategic priorities for 2025. These include strengthening customer and stakeholder relationships, enhancing operational efficiency, and leveraging technology to meet evolving healthcare needs. Sessions ranged from brainstorming innovative business strategies to impactful presentations that showcased how SFH ACCESS continues to lead in health innovations. The retreat exemplified the company’s dedication to continuous improvement and its belief in starting each year with purpose and clarity. 
 
The annual retreat is a cornerstone event for SFH ACCESS, bringing staff together to reflect on past lessons and plan for a future of impactful milestones. With a committed focus on teamwork and innovation, the retreat reaffirmed their readiness to “go all the way” in the competitive telemedicine landscape. This year’s retreat stands as evidence to the organisation’s commitment to providing efficient healthcare solutions and sustaining its leadership in the health-tech industry. It will indeed be an exciting journey in 2025 for SFH ACCESS.

SFH attends the 6th Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) Annual Conference

The 6th Nigerian Academy of Science Annual Conference at the Abuja Continental Hotel on the 21st and 22nd of January 2025 showcased scientific research and innovations with the potential of addressing issues related to climate change. With this year’s theme titled “Climate Adaptation and Resilience in Nigeria”, the conference features sessions on various topics, including the effects of urban renewal on climate change, climate change and water management, the role of technology in adaptation, and the intersection of gender and climate change. These discussions sought to build collaboration and innovation for addressing the multi-dimensional impacts of climate change in Nigeria.

 
Representing Society for Family Health (SFH), Pharm. Jane Adizue, Lead for WASH and Corporate Philanthropy, presented an abstract titled, “Scaling up WASH intervention in public schools to build resilience for climate change: Lessons learned from Edo and Nasarawa states.” This abstract draws on SFH W4HL project intervention in the two aforementioned states, highlighting the importance of integrating WASH initiatives into climate adaptation efforts.
The W4HL project underscores the critical role of clean and safe water facilities in creating a conducive learning environment for students. It also demonstrates that providing such facilities not only improves student attendance but also positively impacts their academic performance.
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SFH ePharmacy4FP project Trains Community Volunteer Mobilisers to Advance Family Planning Services

Society for Family Health (SFH) ePharmacy4FP project launched a two-day training session on Wednesday, 22 January 2025, at the SFH Innovation Hub in Oregun, Lagos, to equip a new cohort of community volunteer mobilisers under the ePharmacy4FP project. This initiative aims to improve access to family planning services by leveraging digital platforms to promote awareness and provide essential contraceptive commodities. The session opened with an inspiring address by the Chief of Party, Dr Uchenna Okafor, who shared SFH Nigeria’s values and vision, reinforcing the organisation’s dedication to improving health outcomes for Nigerians.

 
The training provided participants with a comprehensive overview of their roles and responsibilities. Dr Okafor underscored the mobilisers’ critical position as a bridge between underserved communities and essential family planning services, emphasising the need for cultural sensitivity and evidence-based communication. Participants were also briefed on project goals, which include closing supply chain gaps and fostering informed contraceptive choices. A key highlight was the introduction of digital integration into outreach strategies, empowering mobilisers to use ePharmacy systems and other tools to enhance service delivery and community engagement effectively.
The training not only focused on fostering trust and promoting informed conversations about family planning but also aimed at preparing mobilisers to act as ambassadors of the project’s mission. By engaging underserved populations and facilitating access to modern contraceptive services through digital platforms, these mobilisers are set to drive meaningful change. The training concluded with a renewed sense of purpose and enthusiasm, laying the groundwork for the continued success of the ePharmacy4FP initiative in Lagos State.

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Ensuring Equitable Access to Quality HIV Care for Key Populations in Complex Sociocultural Settings: Lessons from Nigeria

The HIV infection remains one of the major diseases of public health importance globally, with an estimated 40.4 million deaths and 39 million people living with the virus by 2022. About 40 countries are on track to achieve a 95% reduction in AIDS-related mortality by 2030. This progress is however, challenged by sub-optimal progress among key populations (KP). 
Society for Family Health (SFH), with about 3 decades of experience in KP programs, presents in this paper an account of key strategies and innovations in adapting its service provisioning efforts to rapidly changing socio-cultural and political barriers to service delivery among KP in northern Nigeria. Methods: SFH is an indigenous nonprofit, non-political, non-governmental organization in Nigeria that has pioneered HIV interventions among KP across most parts of Nigeria. SFH has successfully tailored its interventions to the unique cultural and religious diversity of Nigeria. The predominantly Islamic-oriented population in the northern part of the country and the Christian-oriented population in the southern part, which is culturally inclined to Western orientations, have all been considered in SFH’s comprehensive approach, instilling confidence in the effectiveness of its strategies.
👉 Copy the link in a browser to read more or view the attachmenthttps://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.19.25320786v1 
This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.
 

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