Abuja – The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) has provided basic nutrition services to1.2 million pregnant and lactating women, adolescent girls, and children under five years in Kano State through the Accelerating Nutrition Results in Nigeria (ANRiN) project.
IHVN implemented the ANRiN project from 2021to 2024 in Nasarawa, Kano Municipal, Fagge, Gwale, Tarauni, Kumbotso, Dala, Bunkure and Wudil Local Government Areas in Kano State through funding from the World Bank and Global Financing Facility.
Chief of Party of the IHVN ANRiN project, Dr.Temitope Kolade stated that the project has
rounded off with100% coverage of the 96 wards in the nine local government areas where the project was implemented.
“The project increased access and utilization of quality, cost-effective basic nutrition services by providing nutrition counseling form others, iron and folic acid, intermittent preventive treatment for pregnant mothers, micronutrient powder, Vitamin A supplementation, deworming, and zinc/ORS.”
According to her, the project also sensitized mothers and care givers on the importance of
exclusive and continued breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and improved maternal, infant, and young child feeding behavior.
“Out of the 1,235,898 individuals enrolled, 725,582 were children under five year so fage,
202,205 were lactating mothers, 177,812 were pregnant women and 85, 455 were pregnant and lactating women,” she said.
Dr.Kolade noted that the project conducted town hall meetings to engage relevant
stakeholders, community out reaches for sensitization about the project, house-to-house visits by community volunteers, radio phone-in programs for enhanced community mobilization efforts, and men’s forum activities to enlighten and encourage men to support the up take of nutrition services.
The Chief of Party attributed the project’s success to the support of the state government, traditional rulers, household heads, community-based organizations, and community volunteers.
“The ANRiN project also provided separate funding for the implementation of an innovative
strategy in two local government areas to strengthen supply chain for nutrition products. The
purpose was to institute strong supply chain leadership, governance, and operational
management systems that would ensure improved product safety, availability, accountability and visibility of nutrition communities”, Kolade said.
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