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A new community and school-based intervention have shown that risk communication and community engagement can help to improve community member’s access to contraceptive services, limit the spread of Tuberculosis, promote awareness on HIV/AIDS testing and counselling services, correct misconceptions on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) including raising the critical consciousness of people on COVID-19 risk mitigation within households in Oyo State, Nigeria.
Community outreach programs help to create an enabling environment to correct the negative sociocultural factors that drive the risks for GBV FGM/C, HIV/AIDs, SRH, and TB by reaching the vulnerable women and girls with vital sexual and reproductive health information including COVID-19 mitigation strategies.