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Original Research Article

Year: 2017 | Month: February | Volume: 7 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 259-266

Achievements and Implications of HIV Prevention Programme among General Population: A Systematic Evaluation of HAF II Project in Kogi State, Nigeria

Ademola L. Adelekan^1,9*, Gabriel Musa², Matthias Okpanachi³, Akogu S. Peterside⁴, Christy Abayomi-Oluwole⁵, Alhassan Godwin⁶, Agada Comfort⁷, Williams Shaibu², Patrick Adah², Michael A. Owojuyigbe⁸, Oladipupo Olaleye^1,9, Olusegun Adeoye¹⁰,  Michael Olugbile¹⁰, Oyeyemi Temitope¹¹

¹Blue Gate Public Health Promotion Initiative, Ibadan, Nigeria
²Kogi State Agency for the Control of AIDS, Lokoja, Nigeria
³Youth and Women Empowerment Project, Lokoja, Nigeria
⁴Nebours without Boarders, Lokoja, Nigeria
⁵Global Hope for Women and Children Foundation, Lokoja, Nigeria
⁶Rural Poverty Reduction and Empowerment Initiative, Lokoja, Nigeria
⁷New Generational Destiny Initiative, Lokoja, Nigeria
⁸Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Science, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
⁹Department of Health Promotion and Education, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
¹⁰HIV Programme Development Project (HPDP2), World Bank, Abuja, Nigeria
¹¹Department of Human Kinetics and Health Education, College Of Science and Information Technology, Tai-Solarin University of Education, Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria

*Corresponding Author: Ademola L. Adelekan

ABSTRACT

Background: HIV/AIDS has over the past two decades become a significant public health challenge in Nigeria and it is necessary to address these challenges and strengthen the national response towards ensuring we reach our set national response targets. This paper therefore presents achievements and implication of HIV prevention programme among the general population in Kogi State, Nigeria.
Methods: The intervention project was conducted between the year 2013 and 2015 and a total of 84206 participants between the ages of 15-49 years were reached during this intervention. Activities carried out included community dialogues, condom distribution, HIV/AIDS education and HIV counselling and testing among others.  Data were documented using various monitoring and evaluation tools and entered in the DHIS2 platform. The data were exported into Microsoft Excel and analysed using Excel.
Results: A total of 62 community dialogues were held during this intervention and 4,084 influencers participated in these dialogues. The year 2015 witnessed an increase in the number of peer educators registered in virtually all of the communities, with 59,197 peers alone registered in 2015 representing 70.3% of the total number of peer registered. A total of 82.6% of the registered peers were reached with complete HIV education and among these, 65.1% were reached in 2015. A total of 35621 (56.6%) of the registered peers were reached with all the three stages of MPPI and 55368 (84.9%) were reached with only HCT. Among these, 1273 (2.3%) were tested positive to HIV

Conclusion: This project enhanced and contributed immensely to the skills development of the peer educators and their cohorts which spread across the communities. However, challenges highlighted in this project should be fashioned into any future HIV intervention programme in the state. 

Key words: HIV/AIDS, HAF II project, Minimum prevention package intervention, General population

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