Learn how community health workers across Nigeria find, refer and support people with TB, HIV and malaria, all in the same visit.
Where the three meet, one community team does the work.
CSS means Community Systems Strengthening. It builds up the people, tools and links that connect a household to a health facility.
Nigeria faces TB, HIV and malaria at the same time, often in the same families. Instead of three separate programmes knocking on the same door, one trained community team handles all three.
People from your own community who know the local language and the local roads.
Clear referral from the household to the clinic, and back again for follow-up.
Simple records feed a live dashboard so teams see gaps and fix them quickly.
All three are treatable. Finding them early protects the person and their family.
Spreads through the air when a person with TB coughs.
Refer for a free sputum test. TB is curable with a full course of treatment, so support the person to finish it.
Spreads through blood, sexual contact and from mother to child.
Offer testing and link to care. Daily treatment (ART) keeps people healthy, and people with an undetectable viral load do not pass HIV on sexually.
Spreads through the bite of an infected mosquito.
Test before treating, using a rapid test. Treat a positive result with the right medicine, and sleep under a treated net every night.
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Meet your community health worker, or go to your nearest health facility.
You are asked about cough, fever and other signs. Rapid tests are offered where available.
If you have signs, you are sent to a health facility with a referral slip.
Your community health worker checks you arrived, supports your treatment and records it.
Posters and leaflets that explain signs, testing and treatment in plain words and local languages.
Step-by-step job aids, training guides and videos for screening, referral and counselling.
Checklists and reporting guides to receive referrals and keep records accurate.
Mobilise your community, support people through referral and treatment, speak up against stigma, and share what you see on the ground.
A network of civil society voices working to end TB.
Community partner in the integrated CSS programme.
The Network of People Living with HIV and AIDS in Nigeria, caring for infected and affected persons.