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Our vision

Enhancing Healthier and Safer Communities.

To collaborate with partners to promote comprehensive and sustainable interventions for public health, support military medicine and health diplomacy for peace, stability and development of communities.

About us

Our History

Health Initiatives for Safety and Stability in Africa (HIFASS) is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) incorporated October 2007. It was founded by Chief Dr. Roland Oritsejafor a former Minister of State for Defence, Federal Republic of Nigeria (2003 – 2006) due to his desire to give succour to vulnerable groups and Nigerians at large.

HIFASS was primarily established as a continued effort of the Nigerian Ministry of Defense health services to provide strategic manpower needs for the Military Health Facilities so as to meet the health needs of military personnel, their families and the population around military health facilities, especially for the control of HIV epidemic and other related diseases. But over the years the organization has grown and extended its services beyond the Barracks through strategic partnerships with Nigerian Ministry of Defence (NMoD) and the United States Department of Defense Walter Reed Program in Nigeria (USDoD-WRP-N, International Development Partners, Private Sector Organisations, and other Civil Service Organisations.

HIFASS is already contributing to the enhancement of population health in Nigeria, utilizing the extensive military health infrastructure across the country and skilled health professionals (Retired military personnel, civilian doctors and other healthcare providers) to support free and comprehensive HIV care and prevention services for the benefit of all Nigerians. Prevention remains a key strategy in halting and reversing the HIV epidemic in Nigeria.

Currently working in 17 States of the Federation through our projects and programmes, HIFASS supports and has supported vulnerable population such as orphans and vulnerable children, caregivers in households, pregnant women attending antennal care facilities, and providing HIV/AIDS Counselling and Testing Services.

Our motto “passion & partnership” is very dear to us. We are totally committed to a collaborative vision and ever willing to acquire more skills, share information and communicate more effectively with our partners.

  • Goal

    Improve access to quality Health Care and Social services through Health System Strengthening, Health Manpower Management, Community Health Services, Trainings and Capacity Building and Health Care Education.

  • Mission Statement

    To collaborate with partners to promote comprehensive and sustainable interventions for public health, support military medicine and health diplomacy for peace, stability and development of communities.

  • Vision

    Enhancing Healthier and Safer Communities.

Our Primary Targets

  • Vulnerable Groups (under five children, adolescent girls and Young women, pregnant women, OVCs, malnourished children, care givers, internally displaced persons and victims of natural disaster).
  • People living with HIV/AIDS.
  • Military Personnel and Civilians around selected military locations.
  • Retired military personnel who are engaged to provide services.

Aims and Objectives

  1. To provide care and support on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis/ Leprosy, Malaria, Hepatitis, Neglected Tropical Diseases, other communicable and non-communicable diseases including any public health challenge.
  2. To promote quality health care through operational research, clinical research and promotion of use of research results to support program development.
  3. To work with the military and other organizations to recruit and manage qualified health personnel.
  4. To support in the provision of healthcare services for uniformed personnel and their families in Nigeria and globally.
  5. To assist organizations, the military and other uniformed personnel in the provision of health infrastructure including buildings and equipment.
  6. To train and retraining of organizations, the military and other uniformed personnel to meet specific needs in the health sector.
  7. To ensure the right systems are in place to support interventions during national emergencies.
  8. To be involved in event planning for seminars lectures fairs, international conferences.
  9. To provide of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services for the military and other uniformed personnel.
  10. To generate and provide database that would disseminate critical information on health related issues to other partners.
  11. To provide services for optimal health and medical logistics for the military and other uniformed personnel in both peace and conflict periods globally.
  12. To use diplomacy to build Military and other uniformed personnel Cooperation in Africa particularly and globally.

The President’s Message

Chief Dr Roland Oritsejafor

I want to welcome you to Health Initiatives for Safety and Stability in Africa (HIFASS), a Non-Governmental, Not-for-profit organisation that started its operation few years ago with the mission of addressing the welfare of military personnel, their family as well as population around the military barracks across the country with particular interest in health related issues. Our vision is all about PASSION & PARTNERSHIP.

Over the years we have gradually migrated to population health, using our experiences to build the organisation and our young workforce, especially in the area of leadership at all levels. The leadership is based on God’s values of love, experience, selflessness, respect and dignity for humanity.

We are committed to utilize our different challenges to build an organisation that can meet with international best standards and compete with any in the world. We encourage a broad based all-inclusive horizontal style of management that deemphasizes individual efforts but embraces team spirit.

Finally, we are committed to pulling all our resources together to build an organisation that will present an opportunity for all of us to operate freely within a laid down framework and at the same time be free to achieve personal goals. We are putting in place a leadership that is not only willing to achieve results within acceptable constraints but also seeks to remove all constraints; a leadership positioned to unlock potentials in others, to cultivate best attitude at the workplace and encourages the joining of hands together to build a better world.

I want to thank the people who work every day to fulfil our organisation’s mandate. The HIFASS team is a small, yet passionate group of people who produce powerful outcomes. I also want to thank all our funders and partners who have supported the initiative. I am incredibly thankful that others see the value of this dream and support us in so many ways.

Chief Dr Roland OritsejaforPresident Board of TrusteesHIFASS

Our partners

  • Nigerian Ministry of Defence
  • US Department of Defense Walter Reed Program–Nigeria
  • HJF Medical Research International
  • USAID
  • UNHCR
  • The Global Fund
  • Society for Family Health
  • National Agency for the Control of AIDS

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