50% of SFH’s programme beneficiaries are the poor.

50% of rural pregnant women and children under 5 sleep under long lasting insecticide treated nets in at least two focus states.
Modern contraceptive prevalence rate increases from 11% to 16%.

Consistent condom use among high risk groups increases by 20%.

SFH MISSION

Society for Family Health has a mission to empower Nigerians, particularly the poor and vulnerable to lead healthier lives...more 

The Enhancing Nigeria’s Response to HIV & AIDS (ENR) Programme

ENR is a six year, Integrated Institutional Strengthening, Governance and HIV Prevention Programme, funded by the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) with the objective of strengthening the Nigeria HIV &AIDS response and improving its capacity to increase access to universal HIV prevention, care and impact mitigation services to the poor and excluded. ENR is supported by DFID, which signed, on January 19th, 2009, a 100 million pounds reimbursable contract to be managed by a consortium of six organisations. The contract is for six years and 40% of its value comes in the form of products, including contraceptives.

Thegoal of the programme is to contribute to Nigeria’s achievement of Millennium Development Goal number 6. The programme focuses on reducing the spread of the HIV epidemic and mitigating the impact of AIDS on the lives of the key target populations and vulnerable groups. Its purpose is to ensure sustained behaviour change.

The Society for Family Health is the managing partner for the contract. Other partners are:

• ActionAID International Nigeria

• Population Services International (PSI)

• Options Consultancy

• Benguela Health (PTY)

• BBC World Service Trust

• Population Council

• Crown Agents for Procurement.

The programme operates at both the state and federal levels and aims to acheive:

• Strengthened stewardship and coordination of the roles of the federal and state governments for an effective, multi-sectoral and evidence-based HIV/AIDS response.

• Improved and increased institutional and resource capacity of Civil Society Organisations, engaged in HIV/AIDS.

• Improved appropriate behaviours conducive to safer sexual practices arising from increased knowledge and access (availability and affordability) to safer sex products including condoms.

• Improved targeting of interventions through better knowledge obtained from monitoring and evaluation (M&E), surveys and research around HIV and AIDS.

The programme is implemented at the national level in conjunction with the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) and three ministries: the Federal Ministries of health, women affairs and education, and also with the national network for CSOs. At the state level, ENR works with the ministries of health, women affairs and education and the State Agencies for the Control on AIDS. ENR works at the state level in seven states, namely Benue, Nasarawa, Kaduna, Cross River, Lagos, Ogun, and Akwa Ibom States. SFH and its partners have demonstrated the ability, commitment, and expertise to measurably improve the health of the Nigerian people and build the capacity of institutions to respond effectively to the HIV epidemic in the past.

The SFH consortium implements the ENR programme with certain key principles in mind, including commitment to:

• Local Ownership and Stewardship

• Alignment with the ‘Three Ones’: one national HIV and AIDS framework, one strategic Plan and one monitoring and evaluation system

• Gender Equity

• Ensuring rights-based approaches

• Ensuring interventions are evidence-based

• Balancing HIV prevention with treatment needs

• Using targeted approaches to reach the most vulnerable

• Good governance and transparency.

For more information on the ENR Programme, or to learn how to support the programme in your state, please contact

The Programme Director,
ENR Programme,
PMB 5116,
Wuse, Abuja,

or

send an email to info@sfhnigeria.org