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| International Women's Day 2013: ‘A Promise is a promise….. On Friday March 8, 2013, AHI joined the rest of the world to commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day in a grand style at two centres – the AHI Youth centre and a school based activities. The universal theme was: “A promise is a promise: time to stop the violence against women”. MORE |
| St. Valentine's Day Celebration Action Health Incorporated organized an event for young people on the 14th of February with the theme “Love at first sight”. The programme was aimed at helping the 260 young people (80 males and 180 females) from 16 schools present at the event understand the true meaning of love; differentiate it from infatuation and sex. It also focused on how young people can keep healthy relationships and dates. MORE |
| HIV/AIDS and Child Labour Prevention Campaign In intensifying the efforts of the World AIDS Campaign and “No to Child Labour” Campaign, AHI collaborated with Living Hope Care, Ilesha with funding support from OLAM Nigeria Limited to undertake a community focused campaign themed “HIV/AIDS and Child Labour Prevention Campaign” among Ore Agbe Ilesha Cocoa Famers and students of Irepodun High School, Erin Oke, Osun State. Various activities were employed to undertake this campaign. MORE |
| In-House Staff Capacity Building on Current Trends in Adolescent Pregnancy As a way of building the capacity of adolescent health providers in AHI to address the current and emerging issues in adolescent pregnancy, Dr. Onigbogi, a Resident Doctor in the AHI Youth-friendly Clinic made a presentation on “Adolescent Pregnancy”. The presentation focused on an overview of adolescent highlighting the current statistics and the burden of adolescent pregnancy in Nigeria and outside the country as well as prevention. MORE |
| Youth Smoking Prevention Campaign Action Health Incorporated (AHI) in partnership with the Cross River State Ministry of Education and Dreamboat Theatre Development Foundation in Calabar seek to promote the health and well-being of Nigerian youth aged below 18 years by improving their ability to abstain from underage smoking through the ‘Youth Smoking Prevention Campaign Project’. MORE |
| Fun! Fun!! Fun!!! During Children’s Day Celebration at AHI There couldn’t have been a better place to be for any young person on Monday 29th, of May 2012 than 17, Lawal Street Jibowu Yaba as it was the day when Action Health Incorporated (AHI) commemorated this year’s children’s day with 119 young people (43 males and 76 females). They came in their colorful attires to deliberate on the designated t theme for the event, which was “touch the sky; reach your full potential”. MORE |
| Teenage Festival Of Life 2012 Script Writing Workshop In order to enhance the preparation of all participating schools in TFL, AHI organised a capacity building workshop in collaboration with the National Centre for Energy Efficiency and Conservation (NCEEC) on script writing and stage presentation in drama, poetry, music and cartoon categories for secondary schools in Lagos State on the festival’s theme “Youth and Energy Use: Securing our health and environment”. MORE |
| National Dialogue On Youth Friendly Health Service Provision In order to facilitate the national scale-up of youth-friendly health service provision, the FMOH in collaboration with Action Health Incorporated with funding support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation convened a one-day dialogue on the provision of youth friendly health services. The goal of the dialogue was to mobilize partners, agencies and donors to commit and buy-in to the national programme roll-out of youth-friendly health service provision as well as explore mechanisms for sustainability. MORE |
| Commissioning of a Model Youth Friendly Clinic, Kuje General Hospital, FCT Recently, a model youth friendly clinic, Kuje General Hospital, Kuje, FCT was officially commissioned on Thursday, 15th March 2012 by the FCT Health Secretary, Dr. Ademola Onakomaiya. The model clinic was established to promote young people’s access to youth friendly sexual and reproductive health services in the Federal Capital Territory. MORE |
| International Women’s Day On the 9th of March 2012, Action Health Incorporated commemorated the 2012 International Women’s Day at the AHI Youth Centre with the theme “Men and Women United to End Violence against Women and Girls”. MORE |
| It Was All Fun At The St. Valentine’s Day Celebration St. Valentine’s Day is traditionally celebrated all over the world. It is a day set aside for people to express their love to one another by sharing and exchanging items such as flowers, chocolates, greeting cards and other heart-felt gift items. MORE |
| Additional Family Life and Emerging Health Issues Master Trainers Trained on Quality Assurance Additional eighteen (18) Master trainers (lecturers) from 6 Colleges of Education across the country have been trained on Quality Assurance to strengthen the implementation of the Family Life and Emerging Health Issues (FLEHI) for the effective implementation of the classroom delivery of the FLEHI course in Colleges of Education in Nigeria. MORE |
| Commemoration of International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation The Information, Education and Communication (IEC) Unit of Action Health Incorporated (AHI) organized a seminar on Friday, February 10, 2012 to commemorate the 2012 International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation with the theme “the role of men and boys in elimination of Female Genital Mutilation”. MORE |
| Report of 1st Regional Summit on HIV/AIDS in Africa The 1st Regional Education Summit on HIV/AIDS in Africa convened by the HIV and AIDS Unit of the Federal Ministry of Education held from November 21st - 25th, 2011 in Abuja. The summit which had its theme has ‘Saving Lives Through Preventive Education: The Role of Young People was attended by over 1500 delegates. MORE |
| Teenage Festival Of Life 2011 - Youth Empowerment: Entrepreneurial Skills For Self-Reliance It was another exciting moment for Action Health Incorporated on the 12th of November 2011. The Teenage Festival of Life, 2011 organized by Action Health Incorporated (AHI) was well attended by over 2,000 young people and adults who made their way to the Main Auditorium of the University of Lagos. MORE |
| Career Guidance For Young People On the 27th of September 2011, AHI played host to a judge in the popular TV music reality show, MTN’s Project Fame, in person of Mr. Ben Ogbeiwi. Uncle Ben, as he is popularly called, is the Music Director of Adrenaline Entertainment and he spoke on ‘How to build a career in music’. MORE |
| Book Review Session: The Shattered Dreams It was another moment of interactive session in reviewing the Book ‘The Shattered Dreams’ authored by Mrs. Kolawole Abiola with 296 young people (190 females and 106 males). The programme was held on Friday, 28th October 2011. MORE |
| Commemoration Of World Food Day As part of AHI’s clinic and Information Education and Communication (I.E.C) Units’ planned activities for young people, the team joined the rest of the world to celebrate the World Food Day with 134 young people (88 females and 46 males) on the 21st of October 2011. MORE |
