TCI Completes 72-Hour Makeovers of 3 Family Planning Clinics in Delta State by Kim Martin | Jun 13, 2018 The Challenge Initiative (the Initiative) in Nigeria conducted 72-hour makeovers at three family planning clinics in Delta State: the General...
On May 30, The Challenge Initiative (the Initiative) was honored to welcome IntraHealth International (IntraHealth) President and CEO Pape Amadou Gaye to its Baltimore headquarters. A native of Senegal, Gaye has spent his career advocating for...
Efforts to counter persistent myths and misconceptions around family planning in Kenya recently received a refresh after the introduction of community “sensitization sessions” to improve knowledge and awareness of family planning methods and...
The Challenge Initiative for Healthy Cities (TCIHC) in India rolled out a new, robust management information system (MIS) in February in TCIHC’s first five cities in Uttar Pradesh (UP). This allows it to track near and real-time data on a set of...
In Bauchi State, Nigeria, The Challenge Initiative has identified three influential family planning champions, including the wife of Bauchi State’s Governor, Hajiya Hadiza M.A. Abubakar; the wife of Bauchi State’s Deputy Governor, Hajiya Fatima...
Betty lives in Kampala’s Ki-Mombasa slum, where women face several barriers when trying to access family planning services. But that all changed in March when The Challenge Initiative, its implementing partner Jhpiego and the Kampala Capital City...
The Challenge Initiative (the Initiative) made headlines last month in Nigeria when Her Royal Highness the Omu of Asaba, Dr. Ada Biosah, agreed to serve as family planning champion in Delta State. As a traditional ruler with international standing,...
There isn’t much that Isaiah Chebrot, M.D., doesn’t love about public health. “You learn a lot about protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. I love working with people from all walks of life,” he says, adding that he...
The Lisabi Festival is one of the most celebrated and well-attended festivals in Ogun State, Nigeria. It is held in remembrance of Lisabi, a warrior who rescued the Egba people from oppression in the 18th century. The Challenge Initiative’s...
U.K. celebrity Stacey Solomon visited Kampala, Uganda, March 5 and 6 with U.K. charity Comic Relief to meet women living in the Ki-Mombasa slum of Kawempe District and then participated in an integrated community outreach event held by The...
Manisha is a family planning provider at an urban primary health center (UPHC) in Sant Nagar, which is located in the city of Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh, India. She recently recalled how another district once referred a young woman with five...
The total population of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania is about 133 million people and growing. Yet, many women who want to avoid pregnancy are not using safe and effective family planning methods. The reasons range from lack of access to information,...
Melinda Gates participated in a high-level roundtable Jan. 25 in Nairobi, Kenya, to hear firsthand about the Kenya activities of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s largest and most innovative family planning investment – The Challenge...
Contributor: Allan Katamba Kampala, Uganda – When the Challenge Initiative launched in March 2017 in Kenya, the Ugandan Minister of State for Health, Hon. Sarah Opendi, in her remarks promised that at least 10 districts from Uganda would soon...
Delta State First Lady Dame Edith Okowa has emerged as one of the Challenge Initiative’s first major champions in Nigeria. Okowa became interested back in October 2017, when the Nigeria team visited her office in Asaba, the Delta state...
