Health Initiatives For Safety and Stability in Africa (HIFASS)

Health Initiatives for Safety and Stability in Africa (HIFASS) is a Non-Government Organization (NGO) incorporated in October 2007 to provide strategic workforce that supports manpower needs of Military Facilities in Nigeria. HIFASS was primarily established as a continued effort of the Nigeria Ministry of Defense Health services to provide strategic manpower needs of the Military health facilities so as to meet the health needs of Military personnel, their families and the population around military health facilities, especially for the control of HIV epidemic and other related diseases. But over the years the organization has grown and extended its services beyond the Barracks; working in 19 states of the federation, by supporting vulnerable population such as orphans and vulnerable children, caregivers in households, reaching pregnant women attending antennal care facilities, and providing HIV/AIDS Counselling and Testing Services. We target a wide range of beneficiaries
• Vulnerable Groups (Children, Adolescent girls and Young women, Pregnant women, OVCs, malnourished, care givers internally displaced persons and victims of natural disaster)
• People living with HIV/AIDS
• Military Personnel and Civilians around selected military locations
• Retired military personnel who are engaged to provide services
We are committed to enhancing healthier and safer communities through strategic partnerships.Partnership and collaboration is the bedrock of all HIFASS programme response and structures since inception. HIFASS has collaborated with various donors and implementing partners (IPS) such as
• Nigerian Ministry of Defence Health Implementation Programme (NMOD HIP)
• Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria
• National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA)
• Nigerian Ministry of Defence (NMOD)
• FCT Agency for the Control of AIDS (FACA)
• Benue State AIDS Control Agency (BENSACA)
• United States Department of Navy
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
• United States Department of Defense Walter Reed Program-Nigeria (USDOD WRP-N)
• PHS Commissioned Officers Foundation
• Henry Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
• World Bank
• Catholic Diocese of Abakaliki Succour and Development Services Initiative (SUCCDEV)
• Catholic Archdiocesan Action Committee on AIDS (CAACA)
• Women’s Right and Health Initiative (WRAHI)
• People to People Health Foundation in Nigeria