A Non-Governmental Organisation, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Nigeria, has taken advocacy training to Nnung Udoe community in Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom to develop the capacity of community members to be able to advocate for access to healthcare services, and other welfare issues in the community.
Speaking to newsmen on Saturday at the closing ceremony of the two-day training exercise, Dr Ekemini Essien, Akwa Ibom State Coordinator of AHF said the training was to equip the group members on the strategies of advocacy to scale up access to HIV and TB services in the community.
Essien, who is also the Team Lead said the advocacy group members were trained on how to identify and provide completely free quality service at the community level in collaboration with AHF.
He added that AHF Nigeria during the training also gave the members the tools to be able to advocate and understand what advocacy…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
