Programmes built for real impact.

PPSDI manages the National Call Centre on HIV/AIDS and Related Diseases on behalf of NACA, from Lagos House, Central Area, Abuja. The toll-free line 6222 is accessible on Airtel, MTN, and 9mobile nationwide.

Services (in five Nigerian languages: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Pidgin, English)

• HIV/STI/TB & malaria peer education
• Interpersonal communication and counselling
• Treatment literacy & adherence counselling
• PMTCT mentor-mothers programme
• HIV counselling and referral for testing
• Referral for ARVs and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP)
• Quality-improvement training for service providers
• Monitoring & evaluation

PPSDI delivers comprehensive OVC care, combining direct support for children with caregiver training and community-level behaviour change to create sustainable, child-centred environments.

Direct services

• School bags, writing materials, and sandals for OVC children
• Psychosocial support and monthly kids club forums
• Home-Based Care kits for people living with HIV
• Scholastic materials and welfare provisions

Systemic interventions

• Caregiver training on positive values and child development
• OVC and PLHIV peer-educator training
• Community outreach on attitudes towards OVCs and PLHIV

Community mobilisation underpins everything PPSDI does, facilitating interaction, reflection, problem-solving, decision-making, action, learning, and improvement, from the grassroots upward.

Recognised competencies

• Attracting, mobilising, and maintaining community volunteers
• Training community change agents and peer educators
• Care and support for people living with HIV
• Life-skills provision for young people

Our capacity-building work spans from grassroots organisations to the highest levels of government, using mentorship, peer-to-peer influence, and role-modelling.

Notable engagements

• Crown Agents UK (2012): training for senior officials of the Debt Management Office, Federal Ministry of Finance.
• NLNG / Shell / Exxon Mobil: board-governance training for the Ibani-Se HIV/AIDS Initiative, Bonny Kingdom.
• World Bank / LSACA: designed and coordinated capacity building for 300 NGOs.

Services offered

• Organisational capacity assessment
• Board development / governance support
• Project management & resource mobilisation
• M&E training, mentorship, and operational research

In partnership with the Katsina State Malaria Control Program and LGA Health Department, PPSDI sensitised and mobilised communities on malaria prevention and treatment, targeting pregnant women, children under five, community health providers, and women CBOs.

PPSDI also delivers TB advocacy, communication, and social-mobilisation training, and mentors community-based organisations in low-case TB detection.

PPSDI brings rigorous M&E practice to all its programmes, not as a reporting afterthought but as a core quality tool.

Capabilities

• M&E system design using national and donor frameworks
• Data-collection tools (enrolment cards, registers, attendance booklets)
• Quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis
• Donor reporting (USAID, DFID, World Bank)
• Operational research and programme learning
• Quality-improvement training and mentorship