ACHL Activities

Africa Centre for Health Leadership and the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) have fine-tuned arrangements to collaborate on strengthening the capacity of faith-based organizations to effectively respond to the COVID 19 response. The collaboration is to enhance the implementation of the Enabling Faith Based Response to COVID 19 project which is supported by[…]

Religion is both a unifying and divisive factor in Nigeria’s political, social, and economic life. It is the most important subject for most Nigerians and almost everyone belongs to a religious group and the number of religious worship places runs into several thousand and members across faiths are in several million with about 46.3% of[…]

Purpose of Visit Aware of the tremendous progress made by UPMC in developing leaders for health care and its global reputation for utilizing the state of the art technology and best practices in providing quality health care services, ACHL visited UPMC in Erie Pennsylvania to learn from this experience.  The overriding goal is build the[…]

ACHL has concluded its Health Care Leadership Master Class in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on the 27-29th August 2019. The training which focussed on leadership for Universal Health Coverage drew participants from public and private sector stakeholders in the State and the Federal Capital Territory.  At the unique occasion which was first of its kind[…]

ACHL Director, Dr. Godwin Asuquo moderated the Global Nursing and Nursing Care Congress organized by PULSUS International in Orlando on the 11-12 of March 2019.  Dr. Asuquo also made a presentation on Universal Health Coverage and SDGs in Nigeria. Some of the key speakers at the event included: Marci Bradley is a Clinical Nursing Director[…]

The Nigerian Government recently released through the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), the  HIV/AIDS Indicator and Impact survey  report which puts the HIV prevalence in Akwa Ibom State at 5.5% as against the national average of 1.4%. Thus Akwa Ibom State is now unenviably the state with a grievous HIV/AIDS burden. Since[…]

The program focused on for quarterly service delivery and professional excellence and the role of nurses in the prevention and control of occupational health hazard and diseases. Besides acquiring contemporary knowledge an orientation and skills in transformational and empowering leadership approaches, the nurses and midwives also brainstormed on how to address the common hazards to[…]

  Are you a newly qualified Nurse in need of technical and other professional support from senior colleagues from around the world to move up in your career? Or are you an experienced and dedicated nurse who is actively in practice but concerned about your future and needs the support, encouragement and guidance from successful[…]

BACKGROUND The national plan of action (POA) addressing Gender Based Violence (GBV) and HIV &AIDS intersections is based on the issues, challenges, and needs identified from the mapping of laws policies, and services for Gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS intersections which were commissioned by UNDP in 2013. With support from UNDP, UN Women, USG and other[…]

Background The Federal Ministry of Health in collaboration with its partners and key stakeholders in healthcare organized a Hospital Fair in Abuja on the 21-13 October 2014. The main objective of the fair was to showcase the giant strides made by the country in health care delivery and create awareness about the gamut of services available[…]

Africa Centre for Health Care Leadership (ACHL) is collaborating with Health Alive Foundation (HAF) to implement the Community/Ambulatory Multi-Drug Resistance –TB treatment program in the Federal Capital Authority in Nigeria. ACHL overseas the program in the FCT, its proposal having been approved by HAF and the FCT Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Program. MDR TB is[…]