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Association for Child Health, Nigeria
Mission Statement/Goal:
To improve the health condition and development of children, adolescents and youth.
Contact Information
Contact person: BELLA AKHAGBA
Address: C/O NAYA SECRETARIAT, PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF NIGERIA, 224 IKORODU ROAD LAGOS, NIGERIA
Phone: 234-8028276168 or 234-1-4715573
E-mail: bellaakhagba@yahoo.com , achildhealth@yahoo.com
URL: http://www.achildhealth.interconnection.org
Description of services provided:
1. Advocate for reproductive health rights of young people
2. Hold seminar on HIV/AIDS on prevention for adolescents and youth
Organizational History
Year started: 2000
Structure: Project Director, Volunteers
Working languages: English
Other organizational history:
Association for Child Health is a member of
1. Development Information Network
2. Youth Against AIDS Network
3. Lagos State HIV/AIDS Foundation
4. Global Action Network
5. Scientists for Population Reduction
6. Network for Adolescents and Youth of Africa
Experience working with the private sector/ references:
Works with military, schools and churches in Lagos, Nigeria, to create awareness of the scourge of HIV/AIDS.
Achievements/Publications/Resources:
1. Written article for newspaper publication on having children by choice not by chance.
2.The African Girl Child
3.Paper presented on the role of religious organizations in the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS
4.The organizations was one of UNICEF implementing NGOs for 2001 World AIDS Campaign when an awareness and sensitization seminar on HIV/AIDS was done for widows and their children at the military cantonment IKEJA.
Other relevant information:
Association for Child Health is planning to train peer health educators and counsellors on reproductive health issues as soon as funding is available.
Registered by the Global Health Council in 2003 and 2004 to coordinate a local candle light memorial to mark the International Candle Light Memiorial Day in May 2004
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