In providing care for women, children, and other vulnerable groups, service delivery quality is paramount. But in a weak health system, who delivers it?

What capacity does the Nigerian health force hold and has the government made any significant impact by itself?

CIHP through the CDC grant, SCOPE, ensured that the enduring inadequacies within the Human Resources for Health (HRH) in Nigeria, particularly in the area of HIV care, treatment and prevention was positively influenced. 

The SCOPE project focused on increasing the availability of health workers and improving their capabilities to meet the priority health needs of underserved population.

This sustainable and scalable HRH intervention went on to secure the future of health workers within existing national guidelines.

Partnering with health institutions and augmenting government strengths

CIHP partnered with 17 pre-service undergraduate and 2 post-graduate health-training institutions, nursing, midwifery and colleges of health technology spread across 7 states.

With three key objectives, we strengthened the pre-service journeys of both undergraduate and postgraduate students of health institutions with great capacity for understanding and providing the public with comprehensive, family-centered, quality focused HIV prevention, treatment, and care and support services.

According the SCOPE project team, “Building the capacity of the next generation of health professionals, of today’s health apprentices before they go into full practice to serve the health needs of the public, especially women, children, and other vulnerable groups was the soul of our intervention efforts with SCOPE. We wanted to help the government meet its health workforce targets, to increase investment in HRH for sustainability and ultimately in this context, to end HIV.”