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Community Aid Development Foundation ( CADEF) is currently in a referral coordination meeting organized by Lagos State AIDS Control Agency ( LSACA) to update it's referrals network amongst all service providers, entities, and network providing HIV and AIDS, GBV, MHPSS, Treatment, Care and Support Services in Lagos State
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CADEF Takes TB/HIV Screening, Medical Outreach To Badagry West Communities The Community Aid Development Foundation (CADEF) has conducted a tuberculosis (TB) and HIV case-finding outreach in partnership with the Badagry West Local Council Development Area (LCDA), as part of activities under the Global Fund GC7 Tuberculosis Grant. The community health intervention, held at....

CADEF Conducts Community TB/HIV Case Search and Medical Outreach in Badagry West LCDA
The Community Aid Development Foundation (CADEF), under the ongoing Global Fund GC7 Tuberculosis (TB) Grant, successfully conducted a social mobilization and active TB/HIV case-finding outreach in partnership with the Badagry West Local Council Development Area (LCDA). The outreach took place yesterday at the Badagry West LCDA Secretariat in Kankon.
Speaking at the event, the Executive Chairman of Badagry West LCDA, Hon. Rauf Ibrahim Yemaren-Rikay, expressed his appreciation to CADEF for bringing the medical outreach to the council secretariat. He commended the Foundation for its commitment to improving community health and encouraged residents from Kankon and neighboring communities to take full advantage of the free health services, particularly the Portable Digital Chest X-ray screening for tuberculosis.
The outreach offered a comprehensive package of free health services, including Portable Digital Chest X-ray screening, blood pressure and hypertension checks, blood sugar testing, malaria screening, and HIV testing and counseling.
The Executive Director of CADEF, Mr. Evans Enwefah, who led the medical team, thanked the Executive Chairman and the leadership of the LCDA for their support and collaboration. He noted that the outreach aligns with Nigeria's End TB Strategy by ensuring that no one is left behind in the fight against tuberculosis.
Mr. Enwefah emphasized that every active TB case should be identified, diagnosed, and promptly placed on treatment. He reassured community members that TB diagnosis and treatment remain completely free of charge and that Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course (DOTS) services are available at the nearest primary healthcare centres.
More than 150 residents benefited from the outreach. Demonstrating exemplary leadership, Hon. Yemaren-Rikay personally underwent the various health screenings alongside members of his executive cabinet, the LCDA

We will be at Badagry West Local Council Development Area Kankon, as we continue our active TB case search in the community

EndTB Strategy is on course, Community Aid Development Foundation continue their active TB/HIV case finding wuth an outreach at Okorogbo community Ajeromi Ifelodun activities included:
Active TB Case findings using the PDX
HTS
Health talk
Screening for hypertension, and diabetes



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Zero stigma campaign against people living with HIV & AIDS- a program of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS ( NACA) in partnership with Gedrite Nig Ltd and Lagos State AIDS Control Agency ( LSACA) implimented by Improved Sexual Health and Right Advocacy Initiative ( ISHRAI) continued with schools sensitizations in Ikega LGA. ISHRAI Board member and Executive Director of Community Aid Development Foundation ( CADEF) Mr Evans Enwefah led the sensitizations at Oke ira Senior Secondary Ogba Ikeja. In his speech, he emphasized the need for abstinence among adolescent boys and girls and HIV can be prevented through protected sex.We are either infected or affected and nobody should be discrinated upon




stigma for PLHIV

Zero stigma campaign against people living with HIV, The National Agency for the Control of AIDS in Nigeria , ( NACA) in Patnership with Gedrite Nigeria Ltd, and LSACA. implemented by Improved Sexual Health and Rights Advocacy Initiative conducted a Town Hall Stateholders Meeting in Ikeja Local Government Secretariat with a theme: No Stigma, No Discrimination: Protecting the right and dignity of people living with HIV and others , facilitating the session on Legal Perspective:Stigma and Distribution as Rights Violations using the VAAP Act the Executive Director of CADEF, Mr Evans Enwefah emphasized the