Maternal New-born and Child Health
(MNCH) program
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FAROF supports Primary Health Care- PHCs, especially at the community level, to help achieve universal health coverage. We work to strengthen health systems to deliver integrated services for children, adolescents and women of reproductive age – focusing on Renovation of Health Centers, nutrition, early childhood development, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis and WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene).
Community MNCH Programs
Available data from the WHO indicates Nigeria as the fourth highest maternal mortality ratio in the world. Where out of 100,000 deliveries, nearly one thousand pregnant women die (NDHS 2018).
FAROF integrated MNCH intervention
Comprises of increaseing access to antenantal care and child birth at the facility level, addressing Malnutrition, Sexual Reproductive Health & Rights (SRHR), Water,Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) practises at underserved communities and, awareness creation on fistula
Our Nutrition Program
FAROF works to prevent and treat malnutrition
In north-west Nigeria, a fight against child malnutrition
Innovations that save lives
FAROF and her partners work across sectors to scale up the treatment of Malnutrition Response in Nigeria through integrated programmes involving the health, education, protection and water and sanitation sectors.
We continue to spend millions of Naira on the procurement of ready-to-use therapeutic food RUTF to treat severely malnourished children, while moving towards more preventive care in our nutrition interventions, using maternal and child health campaigns for Vitamin A supplementation, as well as strengthening the primary health care system and infrastructure
FAROF addressing Malnutrition in Nigeria
- We work to address immediate needs to avoid a deterioration of the situation and prevent mortality in young children by supporting early detection and care for children suffering from severe acute malnutrition and providing ready-to-use therapeutic food for their treatment.
- We also provide access to water, sanitation and hygiene in health facilities and communities; and educate families on how to prepare and provide nutritious food to their children.
- we create the conditions for people to become self-reliant again, by promoting the availability, access and use of local food resources; improving health and other social services; promoting optimal infant and young child feeding practices so that households, communities and national systems are better prepared to prevent and deal with similar shocks in the future.
- FAROF continue to strengthen partnership with both public and private partners to increase national commitments in nutrition funding, as part of a quick response system to the treatment of severe acute malnutrition at both local, state and national level
A call for rapid response to addressing Maternal Mortality and Child Morbidity, including malnutrition in Nigeria and the World at large, through stakeholders engagement
We continue to increase antenatal care and child birth at the facility level through addressing coverage barriers by the donation of Ambulances to Primary health care located in hard to reach communities
Educating Adolescent girls and young women on the importance of thier sexual reproductive health & rights, while supporting them with pampas, while the pregnant mothers with Delivery kits
Some of Our Success Stories
Fatima Salisu, a beneficiary of the delivery kit and LLIN from Nasarawa community, testified of the impactful nature of the intervention, and commended the services rendered to her and the efficiency of the staff when she came to deliver at the facility. This is as a result of the training carried out by FAROF for healthcare workers in Kaduna State to ensure quality maternal and child health service delivery.
Interview session with ETS beneficiary
FAROF WORK ON MNCH
FAROF and her Partners Strengthen Primary health care systems since 2020 with capacity on handling complication during deliveries and attending to expectant mothers during antennal visits at the facility level.
Since 2021, More than 1 million expectants mothers were provided with Delivery kits and confirmed on safe delivery at facility level
Over nine hundred women attend Antenatal at facility level and sensitized through the partnership with the State Primary health care board , Nigeria Breweries plc and TY Danjuma Foundation
FAROF and her partners have supported more than four primary health care centers located in hard to reach communities with Ambulance to increase Delivery at the facility level, more than 15 Ambulances are scheduled to be distributed in the coming year.