We are pleased to announce our new project, the Self-Care Accelerator Project (S-CAP), to accelerate achievement of universal wellness coverage by advertising the use and scale-up of self-care interventions in Nigeria.

In Nigeria, there is restricted access to wellness solutions via the standard wellness method due to quite a few barriers. These barriers have developed an growing demand for revolutionary methods that will advance principal healthcare and contribute to universal wellness coverage. Self-care interventions help wellness systems by giving promising approaches to improve coverage and access, minimize wellness disparities, improve excellent of solutions, boost wellness, human rights, and social outcomes, and minimize price and give much more effective use of healthcare sources.

Nigeria is the 1st nation in Africa to create the National Self Care Guideline for Sexual, Reproductive and Maternal Well being, drawing on the WHO suggestions on Self-care interventions for wellness and properly-becoming. S-CAP will help the FMOH to accelerate this national self-care agenda in Nigeria, to place in location systems for complete scale up of self-care. In performing so, it will also serve as an exemplar with lessons to inform international programming in self-care

Self-care holds the guarantee of shifting the paradigm from overly dependence on wellness systems, decreasing the bludgeoning healthcare price and burden on providers, by empowering men and women to carry out very simple wellness options.” Adewole Adefalu, JSI Technical Advisor.

This activity leverages JSI’s much more than 40 years of household arranging, new item introduction and monitoring, evaluation and mastering knowledge.