Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria

17/01/2025

Dear Healthcare Worker,

Maintain a high index of suspicion. This “awareness and concern for potentially serious underlying and unseen injuries or illness” can protect you from infectious diseases like Lassa Fever.

17/01/2025

Tuberculosis (TB) affects adults and has a devastating impact on children. This is because, for children, the signs and symptoms often go unnoticed or are mistaken for other common illnesses. As a result, children are more likely to die from TB than adults.

Here is how we are supporting the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme to improve TB case detection among children and reach zero TB deaths in Nigeria.

17/01/2025

What is Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)?

To understand AMR, let us first define antimicrobials. Antimicrobials are medicines used to prevent and treat infections caused by germs in humans, animals, and plants.

Examples include:

a. Antibiotics: Treat bacterial infections, e.g., tuberculosis.

b. Antivirals: Treat viral infections, e.g., cold sores.

c. Antifungals: Treat fungal infections, e.g., ringworm.

d. Antiparasitics: Treat parasitic infections, e.g., malaria.

AMR occurs when these medicines lose their effectiveness against the germs they were designed to combat, posing a serious threat to global health.

17/01/2025

Individual health.
Family health.
Communal health.
National health.

This is our hope for Nigeria. And this can happen when we:

✅ Eat nutritious food.

✅ Space births so the mother recovers after each delivery, and children can get the best care as they grow.

✅ to from germs and disease-carrying organisms like mosquitoes to prevent malaria and yellow fever.

✅ Check ourselves when we have persistent coughs to prevent tuberculosis.

✅ Test every fever and treat them based on the recommendations of trained healthcare workers.

✅ Keep our food, clothes, body, animals, and environment clean.

✅ And adopt health-seeking behaviors across all areas of our lives.

17/01/2025

Lassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic illness caused by a virus.

Since 2022, Breakthrough ACTION, funded by USAID, has supported Bauchi State’s efforts to combat Lassa fever by addressing behavior-related practices and enhancing case finding.

Breakthrough ACTION helped combat Lassa fever in Nigeria by addressing behavior-related practices and enhancing case finding.

15/01/2025

Immunization protects children.
Vaccination protects adults.

Together, they protect families, communities, and Nigeria as a whole. to protect yourself from vaccine-preventable diseases like Mpox, Yellow Fever, COVID-19, etc.

15/01/2025

Question:
What is Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)?

Answer:
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) happens when germs—such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites—evolve over time and become resistant to the medicines designed to kill them. This means that these drugs can no longer eliminate the germs effectively.

As a result, the germs continue to thrive in the body, causing illness. Infections become harder—or even impossible—to treat, leading to the spread of diseases, more severe health conditions, and, in some cases, death.

AMR is a serious threat that requires global action to prevent its consequences.

15/01/2025

Breakthrough ACTION developed a package of resources in Nigeria to leverage peer-to-peer influence among healthcare workers and strengthen interpersonal communication with clients to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake across both groups.

More here: https://breakthroughactionandresearch.org/resource-library/working-with-health-care-providers-in-nigeria/

Breakthrough ACTION worked with providers in Nigeria to leverage peer influence and strengthen their interpersonal communication skills.

15/01/2025

Join the sixth Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on "Breaking the Chain of Lassa Fever Transmission through Environmental Health Interventions".

🗓️Thursday, January 16, 2025
🕓 10 am WAT
🔗Register via https://tinyurl.com/LFWebinar6 OR Scan the QR Code on the poster

15/01/2025

Olonite Michael, or "Baba Lassa" as he is fondly called, is a survivor of Lassa fever and has become an advocate for preventing, detecting, and treating the disease in his community in Ayede-Ogbese, Ondo State, Nigeria.

Breakthrough ACTION-Nigeria strengthened Baba Lassa's capacity to promote healthy behaviors, including seeking prompt care for all fevers. He now uses his patent and proprietary medicine store and community engagement to reach people with critical information about preventing Lassa fever.

14/01/2025

We desire that you continue to take the necessary steps to ensure the safety and health of you, your family, and everyone you love.

One way to do this is by cleaning your environment. A clean environment stops the spread of some diseases-carrying organisms.

Take that necessary step to clean your environment!

14/01/2025

From 2017–2024, Breakthrough ACTION, with funding from the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative, implemented social and behavior change (SBC) activities as part of 18 mass distribution campaigns across 11 states in Nigeria.

​This documentary highlights Breakthrough ACTION's experience and emphasizes the importance of sustained communication and community engagement in promoting insecticide-treated net use. ​

From 2017–2024, Breakthrough ACTION, with funding from the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative, implemented social and behavior change (SBC) activities as pa...