Protecting communities through prevention, early detection, and integrated action. Healthy communities depend on strong systems that prevent disease before it spreads. Through our One Health & Integrated Disease Prevention pillar, OHRI works at the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health to reduce preventable diseases, strengthen community surveillance, contain antimicrobial resistance, prevent zoonotic disease spillover, and improve access to tuberculosis and neglected tropical disease interventions. Our approach places communities at the centre of disease prevention by equipping Community Health Workers (CHWs), strengthening community surveillance systems, promoting health education, and connecting community-level action with government health systems.
Our 2036 Ambition
By 2036, OHRI aims to:
- Recruit and deploy 600 Community Health Workers (CHWs) across 10 states, with a 70% two-year retention rate.
- Deliver 15,000 community health education sessions on disease prevention and healthy practices.
- Distribute 200,000 insecticide-treated bed nets, achieving at least 80% utilisation in 250 communities.
- Establish 300 community-based disease surveillance hubs.
- Achieve 48-hour detection and 72-hour response for 90% of reported outbreaks.
- Train 300 community surveillance focal persons.
- Deliver 2,000 antimicrobial resistance (AMR) awareness sessions, reaching 100,000 people.
- Train 200 patent medicine vendors in antimicrobial stewardship.
- Establish 50 community AMR monitoring points.
- Establish One Health biosecurity protocols in 200 communities, with a target of 75% compliance.
- Train 500 community biosecurity champions.
- Conduct wildlife disease surveillance at 50 human-wildlife interface sites.
- Screen 200,000 people for tuberculosis (TB) through community active case finding.
- Provide nutritional support to 10,000 TB patients and contacts.
- Treat 50,000 people for schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths in 100 communities.
- Modify 200 freshwater breeding sites to reduce schistosomiasis transmission.
- Train 300 community NTD environmental managers.
These interventions will strengthen community-level prevention, improve early detection and response, reduce zoonotic disease risks, promote responsible antimicrobial use, and expand access to essential disease prevention and control services.
Specific Funding Need for this Pillar
Pillar 1 Fundraising Target: US$2.0 Million
OHRI is seeking US$2.0 million in dedicated funding for One Health & Integrated Disease Prevention to expand community-based disease prevention, surveillance, health education, AMR containment, zoonotic disease prevention, TB control, and NTD interventions through 2036.
Funding will support:
Community Disease Prevention
- Recruitment, training and deployment of 600 CHWs
- Community health education and behaviour-change activities
- Distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets
- Community prevention, screening and referral services
- CHW supervision, monitoring and reporting
Integrated Disease Surveillance
- Establishment and strengthening of 300 community surveillance hubs
- Training of community surveillance focal persons
- Community disease reporting and early-warning systems
- Rapid outbreak detection and response
- Linkages between communities, LGAs and state health authorities
Antimicrobial Resistance Containment
- Community AMR awareness campaigns
- Training of patent medicine vendors in antimicrobial stewardship
- Establishment of community AMR monitoring points
- Responsible antibiotic-use education
One Health Biosecurity & Zoonotic Disease Prevention
- Development and implementation of community biosecurity protocols
- Training and equipping community biosecurity champions
- Biosecurity improvement at live animal markets and community settings
- Wildlife disease surveillance at high-risk human-wildlife interfaces
Tuberculosis Control
- Community-based TB screening and active case finding
- Referral and linkage to appropriate treatment services
- Nutritional support for vulnerable TB patients and contacts
- Training of CHWs in TB screening and contact tracing
Neglected Tropical Disease Control
- Community-based treatment for schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths
- Environmental modification of freshwater breeding sites
- Training and equipping community NTD environmental managers
- Community water-safety and disease-prevention education
The OHRI Strategic Plan identifies US$9.8 million as the overall 2026–2036 organisational resource requirement. The US$2.0 million above is presented as a proposed fundraising target specifically for Pillar 1, rather than as a separately published pillar budget in the Strategic Plan.
Invest in Prevention. Detect Early. Protect Communities.
US$2.0 Million Pillar 1 Funding Target
600 CHWs • 300 Surveillance Hubs • 200,000 People Screened for TB • 50,000 NTD Treatments • 10 States
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