Our Current Programs

Eliminate Viral Associated Hepatitis (EVAH) Program

Hepatitis continues to be a major public health issue in Nigeria. It is estimated that about 13 percent of Nigerians are infected Hepatitis B virus. Geographic variation exists across the country and pregnant women, children, and blood donors have higher prevalence than the general population. The B and C strains are relatively common.

In a bid to address this burden, MedBridge International is currently working with a number of partners to rollout a comprehensive prevention, treatment, care and support  program - The EVAH Program. This program will increase access to life saving hepatitis services, especially to underserved persons in Nigeria.

Safer Integrated Mothers and Infants (SIMI) Program

MedBridge International is currently providing periodic short term free healthcare services for IDPs with a focus in Abuja based on availability of funding. In the long term, MedBridge International is planning a social entrepreneurship healthcare project that will address the longterm healthcare needs of these individuals. Further, there are plans to provide critical life saving health commodities like oral rehydration salts through drone technology.

As of December 2015, it was estimated that there were 2,152,000 internally displaced persons in Nigeria - majority of them from the Boko Haram insurgency. These are in 207 Local Government Areas (LGA) covering 13 States of Northern Nigeria. One of the greatest challenges of these IDPs is access to quality healthcare. Pregnant women have been known to deliver their babies in the IDP camps under unhealthy and unhygienic conditions. 

Free Healthcare Program

From Left To Right: Dr. Abiye Kalaiwo (Executive Director of MedBridge International), Cyndee Anthony (Board Member, MedBridge International), Dr. Pamela Schmoll (Wife of the US Ambassador to Nigeria)

The burden of Nigeria's poor healthcare system lies in rural and suburban areas where social and healthcare infrastructure are scarce. In these areas, traditional practices including the patronage of traditional birth attendants continues to boom. Several efforts by successive governments to revive primary healthcare in rural areas has not been successful as many of those efforts end up being not sustainable. ​

In keeping with the fundamental creed of bridging the healthcare divide and serving the underserved, MedBridge International plays a key role in increasing rural and sub-urban access to healthcare. Drawing from a pool of volunteer healthcare professionals, MedBridge International provides quality services to indigent persons in rural areas on a short term basis subject to availability of funds. 

Sarah's Clinic

Late Rev. Mrs. Ngozi Cole

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She inspired many and devoted her life to helping indigent women many of whom were HIV positive. She died on the Sunday 3 June, 2012  alongside her husband in a plane crash. They are survived by three children

An HIV positive widow receiving treatment from , Dr. Abiye Kalaiwo

Beyond the stigma and discrimination faced by PLHIVs in Nigeria, PLHIV widows (PLHIVWs) grapple with several harmful socio-cultural practices associated with widowhood. The vicious cycle between HIV and poverty, nurtured in an atmosphere of harmful sociocultural practices associated with widowhood significantly increases the vulnerability of these women and their children to HIV. PLHIVWs have the third highest prevalence of HIV in Nigeria after female sex workers and gay men.

The Rev. Ngozi Cole (RNC) Project for PLHIVWs provides primary care services to PLHIVWs and their children. Services will be through a mobile community-health infrastructure with strong linkages to key facility based services. MedBridge will deliver these mobile services through its pool of volunteer healthcare professionals. Working with its partner healthcare services outlet, MedBridge will also ensure linkage to facility based care and other forms of care as necessary. 

The Sustainable and Impact-oriented Nutrition Assistance (SINA) Program 

Left To Right: Dr. Abiye Kalaiwo (Executive Director, MedBridge International), Mother and three days old infant with Omphalitis (infected umbilical cord). The mother was delivered by untrained traditional birth attendants in her house. Baby was successfully treated and followed up

Roughly of all children under the age of five years in Nigeria, 20 percent are wasted, 30 percent are underweight, and 40 percent are stunted. Nigeria has a. Nutrition related illnesses account for about 50 percent of  

In keeping with the fundamental creed of bridging the healthcare divide and serving the underserved, MedBridge International plays a key role in increasing rural and sub-urban access to healthcare. Drawing from a pool of volunteer healthcare professionals, MedBridge International provides quality services to indigent persons in rural areas on a short term basis subject to availability of funds.