ABUJA, NIGERIA — The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, in partnership with the World Health Organization, has launched a nationwide campaign to expand HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) delivery across primary and secondary health facilities. Driving the nigeria prep training initiative, health authorities aim to upskill over 3,000 frontline clinical providers, nurses, and community pharmacists in prescribing oral PrEP and administering long-acting injectable cabotegravir.
This workforce campaign directly aligns with national public health targets to halt new HIV infections and eliminate transmission risks among key and vulnerable populations. Decentralizing access beyond tertiary hospitals ensures essential preventative treatments reach underserved communities nationwide.
Program Priorities & Clinical Training Targets
The initiative shifts preventative HIV care into routine primary healthcare networks:
Clinical Objective & Scale
Operational Strategy
Provider Upskilling (3,000+ clinicians)
Comprehensive training on oral PrEP & injectable cabotegravir
Service Decentralization
Shifting PrEP delivery from tertiary centers to primary clinics
Community Integration
Embedding services into family planning clinics & local pharmacies
Target Population Access
Removing geographic & financial barriers for vulnerable youth
Executing the Nigeria PrEP Training Initiative Across Community Clinics
Broadening the nigeria prep training initiative into primary healthcare centers is central to removing long-standing geographic and financial barriers to HIV prevention. Technical advisors from WHO emphasized that embedding PrEP services into routine sexual healthcare, antenatal care, and community pharmacies provides a confidential, accessible environment for adolescent girls and young adults who face elevated risks of infection.
By building clinical competency across all 36 states, the Federal Ministry of Health is embedding advanced preventative pharmaceuticals into everyday clinical practice. Scaling up trained healthcare personnel strengthens the national health system, accelerates epidemic control, and moves Nigeria closer to eliminating new HIV infections by 2030.
Why It Matters: Scaling up PrEP clinical competency nationwide accelerates Nigeria’s strategy to eliminate new HIV infections, embedding advanced preventive pharmaceuticals into primary healthcare networks.
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