21/09/2026
Bringing Essential Health Services Closer to Communities
Integrated Community Outreach | Langtang South LGA, Plateau State
For communities in hard to reach locations, accessing essential health information and services can begin with something as simple as making the journey to them.
With permission from the village head, the LTR Plateau State team, in collaboration with COIN, conducted an integrated community outreach in a hard to reach village in Langtang South LGA, bringing Tuberculosis, HIV, Syphilis and Hepatitis B screening closer to residents.
Because English and Hausa are not commonly understood in the community, a local interpreter supported the TB/HIV Cascade Monitor during the health education session, ensuring that important messages were communicated in a language residents could understand and engage with.
The outreach also provided an opportunity to discuss child nutrition, with mothers and caregivers receiving practical guidance on the importance of balanced diets using locally available foods to support healthy growth, development and immunity.
The discussion covered exclusive breastfeeding, timely introduction of complementary foods and the inclusion of diverse food groups in children’s daily meals as important measures for preventing malnutrition.
The community responded positively, with residents actively participating in both the health education and screening sessions.
For LTR, community outreach is not simply about taking services to places where they are needed. It is about meeting people in their own context, communicating in ways they understand and connecting health interventions with the realities that shape their wellbeing.
