Novo Nordisk: Base of Pyramid Diabetes Care The Project aimed at: Making access to medicine affordable and available.To improve access to diabetic care for the working poor in low and middle income persons. Building capacity in health system and societies by training of HCPs. CHAN signed agreement with Novo Nordisk to train vitually Doctors and Nurses and Phamacist/Pharmacist technologist on Diabetic Treatment in Nigeria. A total of 133 persons participated in the First Training in October 2020 and During the World Diabetic day Another training was held for the Doctors/Nurses and pharmacist and 132 participants from CHAN MIs benefited. Novo Nordisk through CHAN provided IPC and PPC worth N7,592,280 to MIs in the four Zones of Nigeria to mitigate the impact of COVID 19 in Nigeria. Novo Nordisk is supporting CHAN Management and staff on monitoring visits to 18 states across the Federation of Nigeria and to mark Celebration of World Diabetic Day (November 14) in retrospect. The CHAN-Novo Nordisk Based of the Pyramid project is a partnership targeted at CHANs MIs across the country. The aim of this project was to bring quality health care services to people living with diabetes mellitus in the country and bridging the gap for the people living at the base of the pyramid with quality care. The project commenced in 2018 after final signings of M.O.U. in 2017.

The activities carried out in this project are; 1. Baseline assessments of the benefitting facility 2. Trainings of HCPs 3. Distribution of IEC materials to the MIs 4. Continuous Medical Education for Health Care Professionals 5. Distribution of personal protective equipment’s to 15 selected MIs 6. Conduct a 1day Diabetes awareness creation and free screening of blood glucose level in 10 MIs The first activity implemented for this project was the baseline assessment which was carried out in 74 facilities across (18) states in the country including the Federal Capital Territory. After wards various trainings on management of diabetes mellitus were planned and executed. During the implementation of the project, 5 face to face trainings were executed from commencement of the project in 2018 and 4 webinars in the year 2020. The implementation of this project was done in 3 zones that is Zone B, C and D.