21/09/2026
Building on the earlier SBC materials review, adaptation workshop, and stakeholders’ sensitization engagements, RedAid Nigeria, in collaboration with ISCODI, has commenced the final round of the leprosy stigma reduction process: a 5-Day Human-Centred Design (HCD)-Inspired Co-Creation Workshop to develop an SBC package for leprosy-related stigma reduction.
This final phase brings together key national and state-level stakeholders, including the National Coordinator of NTBLCP, Federal Ministry of Health; the National Coordinator of NTDs, Federal Ministry of Health; the National Leprosy/Buruli Ulcer Focal Person; programme representatives from 13 states; media professionals from radio and television across the 13 states; and persons with lived experience of leprosy.
The workshop is designed to deeply understand the lived realities of persons affected by leprosy, unpack evidence and behavioural insights, interrogate myths and misconceptions, and co-create practical, empathetic, and culturally appropriate SBC materials that can support stigma reduction across communities.
Using a Human-Centred Design approach, participants will move from empathy and immersion to ideation, prototyping, testing, refinement, and validation of messages and materials that promote dignity, inclusion, early care-seeking, treatment, and zero discrimination.
For RedAid Nigeria, this process is about more than producing communication materials. It is about ensuring that the voices of persons affected by leprosy, programme actors, community stakeholders, and the media are reflected in a stigma reduction package that speaks to real people, real experiences, and real community barriers.
Leprosy is curable.
Stigma is preventable.
Dignity must remain at the centre of the response.
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