Stephanie Igben and John Omo-Izirein
With the aim of facilitating access to the regime’s basic commodities and health care facilities in a time of physical emergency, the Civil Society for Malaria Control, Immunization and Nutrition (ACOMIN) introduced a COVID-19 reaction mechanism that would help reduce gaps and demands. situations in the country’s reaction. COVID-19 and preparedness for epidemics and long-term pandemics.
The COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM) grant aims to address gaps in systems and infrastructure for effective and effective outcomes in fitness systems, as well as communities and CSOs.
The states for the implementation of the C19RM grant are: Delta; ekiti; Lakes; Croix-Rivière; Federal Capital Territory (CTF); Edo; Anamba; Kaduna; Kanô; jigawa; Nasarawa; Plateau; jigawa; Kwara; Ondo and Heard.
Speaking at a press conference about the modalities of the project, the State Coordinator of ACOMIN, Ms. Bunmi Tejumola, revealed that the effect of COVID 19 can be felt in all spaces of the disease, resulting in a 70-80% drop in the use of the service. .
He explained that the national TB program saw a 30% relief in Genexpert testing during the first weeks of the lockdown of the first wave of COVID-19.
Likewise, he revealed that the diagnosis of malaria in regime and access to medicine has been interrupted, and that the implementation of the Malaria Indicators Survey (MIS) and the Therapeutic Effectiveness Studies (TES) has also been stopped.
“Routine malaria diagnosis and access to treatment have been interrupted and implementation of the Malaria Indicators Survey (MIS) has been interrupted. The impact of COVID-19 on HIV, TB or malaria can be minimized by maintaining those critical services, according to a recent Global Fund Highlights report,” he said.
Tejumola warned that there is a pressing need to scale up adaptation measures to continue HIV, tuberculosis and malaria services, boost the delivery of materials for the COVID-19 response, and prevent the collapse of fitness systems.
“The C19RM/WHSR grant targets the following previous interventions: prevention of gender-based violence and post-violence care, addressing human rights and gender barriers, social mobilization, strengthening linkages and network coordination, developing institutional capacity building plans, and leadership development.
“The C19RM component of the grant is intended to assist in efforts to prevent, treat and contain COVID-19 and prepare for long-term pandemics. It aims to address gaps in systems and infrastructure through strategic interventions to ensure effective and efficient fitness. Results It will also integrate the responses of fitness systems, communities and CSOs to COVID-19, so that everyone contributes their respective share in achieving the desired outcomes in all states of implementation.
“The WHSR component will contribute to the basic update in strengthening fitness systems in Nigeria through targeted interventions that help the government design policies, methods and criteria, as well as plan, monitor and review progress against those criteria, governance and plan reforms. . that align with national policies, criteria and methods for sustainable innovations to maximise the impact on TMJ (AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria) and other diseases.
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