HIV/AIDS-related programmes carried out by CHIEF include community-based prevention and control programmes that address a wide range of individuals - from company employees and health workers to youth (both in and out of school). Strategies employed to implement these programmes include:

• Advocacy/sensitisation
• Behavioural change communication
• Training, outreach, publications, mobilisation, and rallies
• Provision of home-based care
• Establishment of a youth-friendly resource centre

Specific activities that the organisation carries out include:

• Conducting baseline studies (community diagnosis) to identify health needs
• Providing basic health education and informal training to women, youth, and the elderly - for development, economic growth, and poverty alleviation.
• Working to reduce maternal/infant morbidity and mortality rates by establishing primary health/outreach clinics
• Providing essential drugs
• Establishing multi-sectoral collaborations with other bodies or agencies promoting health.

Past projects have included:

• From 2000-2002, with the support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), provided basic health and HIV/AIDS information to 600 men, women, and young people in 6 rural/semi-rural Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Lagos State of Nigeria. Trained 120 traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in the same LGAs.
• From 2001-2003, with the support of Family Health International (FHI), implemented a sexually transmitted infection (STI)/HIV/AIDS prevention project among out-of-school youth in Ojo, Ajeromi-Ifelodun, and Lagos-Mainland LGAs of Lagos State; 128,000 youth were reached.
• From 2004 on, in partnership with the National AIDS Control Agency (NACA), carried out an STI/HIV/AIDS prevention project among disadvantaged women and out-of-school youth in Eti-Osa, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State and Sagamu, Ogun States of Nigeria.
• From 2000 to 2002, with the support of the Lagos State AIDS Control Agency (LASACA), conducted an AIDS campaign rally in Epe, Ibeju-Lekki, and Lagos Island LGAs of Lagos State, Nigeria.

Activities planned for 2005 include scaling up of STI/HIV/AIDS prevention among out-of-school youth in five division of Lagos State, as well as a Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) -supported safe motherhood project in Agbowa community, Laos State.

Health, HIV/AIDS.

CHIEF's aim is to support the World Health Organization's (WHO) commitment to health for all by developing and promoting practices that enhance self-actualisation and community and national development.