Grantee Profile

Action Health, Incorporated

Grants to Action Health, Incorporated

  • $500,000Active Strategy

    2012 (Duration 3 years)

    Population & Reproductive Health

    YABA, NIGERIA — This grant to Action Health Incorporated aims at promoting youth sexual and reproductive health by contributing to the scale-up of teacher training in the Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education curriculum and to scaling up of youth-friendly services through pre-service training of nurses and midwives. The project will support the continued piloting of confidential youth friendly service models, and ongoing direct engagement with young people, including improving the use of social media in its work.

  • $250,000Active Strategy

    2010 (Inactive Grant)

    Population & Reproductive Health

    YABA, NIGERIA — To promote pre-service Family Life and HIV Education quality assurance and youth-friendly reproductive health services in Nigeria (over 18 months).

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Action Health, Incorporated $750,000 between 2010 and 2013.

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