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As part of the implementation of malaria control interventions involving community-directed distributors (CDDs) through community-directed interventions (CDIs) and public-private partnerships (PPPs) with patent medicine vendors (PMVs), the World Bank-supported Nigeria Malaria Control Booster Project (MCBP), with support from the World Bank Malaria Impact Evaluation Program (MIEP), is carrying out a listing of Primary Health Care Facilities (PHCFs), Kindred’s, Patent Medicine Vendors (PMVs), and Community Laboratories in seven states of Nigeria. The listing activity is centered on two key interventions namely CDI and PMV. The CDI intervention is clustered by primary health facility catchment area. As this intervention relies on the selection of CDI distributors (CDD) by Kindreds themselves, an accurate list of all kindreds living within the communities in the catchment area of each primary health facility is needed. CDI intervention will use information about primary health care facilities and the kindred served by the health facility to implement the program. The implementation unit for the PMV intervention is the political ward. As such, an accurate list of all PMVs (registered and unregistered) operating within each ward will be needed. In addition, PMVs and PHCF refer patients to community laboratories for diagnostic testing before dispensing drugs. For this reason, an accurate list of the community laboratories within each ward is also required.
This listing activity will provide the basis for planning, implementation, management, monitoring, and evaluation, including impact evaluation (IE), of the CDI and PMV interventions. Public Health Services and Solutions (PHSS) a health consulting firm has been awarded the task in Rivers State.
OBJECTIVES
- To develop a data base of PHCF, PMV, Kindred and Community Labs in Rivers State at the LGA level.
- Collect Global Positioning System (GPS) data of all PHCF, PMVs and Community Labs in the state and produce maps showing distribution of PHCF, PMVs, Community Labs by LGA.
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