NGO, Taraba govt partner to train 116 field staff in health education

The Society for Family Health, in partnership with Taraba state government on Saturday trained 116 field staff to Improve capacity for quality health services among children, adolescents, pregnant and Lactating mothers in Taraba.

Dr Omokhudu Idogho the Managing Director, who was represented the Programme Director, MS. Aisha Dadi, noted during the one week training workshop that the idea was aimd at ensuring adequate provision of HIV Services for children and women.

According to her, the field staff are mandated to identifying, testing or linking Children, adolescents, pregnant and lactating mothers to HIV services.

“The project (Lafiyan Yara and Paediatric), is to ensure quality health service delivery for children and women, targeted at ending HIV by 2030” She said.

Correspondent reports that participants were drown across 15 local government areas in Taraba.

MS. Dadi encouraged participants to be resilient, and ensure that the expected quality service is delivered, especially now that Nigeria is committed to closing paediatric HIV gaps and to achieve PMTCT/eMTCT by 2030.