LAGOS, NIGERIA · EST. 2013

Reaching people where they are. Connecting them to care.

MHBI is a community-rooted health and development organisation connecting grassroots access with quality health services, community leadership, human rights and sustainable development.

Where community trust meets better health.
MHBI community health outreach at Ojuwoye Market
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Where community trust meets better health

in connecting people to prevention, health information, youth engagement, service linkage, safeguarding, partnerships and evidence-informed action.

Our Community Activities

Real people. Real communities. Lasting impact.

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Community health screening with PCRC Mushin1

Community health screening delivered with the Police Community Relations Committee (PCRC), Mushin.

Free health screening, health education and referrals in partnership with the PCRC, supporting safer, healthier communities in Mushin.

Light Up Mushin — Street Soccer2

Light Up Mushin — Street Soccer.

Using sport to engage young people, promote healthy lifestyles, build confidence and strengthen community bonds. MHBI is listed among the event's community sponsors.

OTZ Youth Engagement3

OTZ Youth Engagement.

Interactive sessions, peer support and youth-led conversations on health, rights and opportunities. Used with the participant's consent.

Health Outreach — Ojuwoye Market4

Health Outreach — Ojuwoye Market.

Community health services, health education, referrals and linkage to care at Ojuwoye Market.

World AIDS Day — MHBI Team Activity5

World AIDS Day — MHBI Team Activity.

Community mobilization, HIV prevention messaging, testing promotion and support for people living with HIV.

Research & evidence

From community experience to evidence.

MHBI is strengthening the connection between community observation, systematic research, prevention, safeguarding, service linkage and implementation learning.

PATHWAYS OF VULNERABILITY

Substance Use, Sexualized Substance Use and Mental Health among Adolescents, Young People and Adults in Lagos.

A comparative community-based study architecture across key-population and general-population communities, with a focus on prevention, safeguarding and pathways to care.

Community-informed research

Evidence in practice

MHBI contributes community entry, engagement, contextual interpretation, field implementation, referral coordination, safeguarding support, prevention translation and community dissemination.

Connect with MHBI

Let's build healthier communities together.

For programme partnerships, institutional enquiries, community health initiatives, youth engagement and research collaboration, contact the MHBI team.

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⌖ Lagos State, Nigeria
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Who we are

Community-rooted health. Leadership. Evidence.

Maintaining Healthy Behaviour Initiative (MHBI) has developed through sustained community engagement in Lagos. Our work connects practical community access with prevention, health information, youth programming, linkage to services, safeguarding, partnerships, learning and evidence.

Community-led healthHIV preventionYouth engagementService linkageSafeguardingResearch & documentation
Our Model

Community trust → access → care → learning

MHBI builds from relationships, local knowledge and community participation, while keeping programme reporting, historical records and research evidence clearly distinguished.

Community-ledPeople-centredEvidence-informedPartnership-driven
Selected community impact

Reach and contribution across our community work

These are selected institutional indicators. Historical figures are deliberately labelled as historical and are not presented as January–July 2026 programme outputs.

700+

Community Members Mobilized

Adults and other community members reached through community engagement, outreach and prevention activities.

134

People Linked to Sustained ART

Community members historically supported and linked to sustained antiretroviral therapy.

21,500+

Male Condoms Distributed

Historically distributed through community HIV-prevention, outreach and risk-reduction activities.

3,000+

Young People Engaged Through OTZ

Young people reached through Optimizing Treatment Now programming.

Our History

Building community health work from the ground up.

MHBI's institutional journey predates its later engagement with CIHP. Historical milestones are separated from current programme reporting.

2013

Early community HIV-prevention work. MHBI's journey includes involvement under SHiPS for MARPs and early prevention activities, alongside work with CRH around SRRS and Behaviour Maintenance.

2014

Programme development. Continued community prevention and behaviour-change activities formed part of the developing institutional record.

2016

Formal registration. MHBI was formally registered as an institution following its earlier community-based work.

2020 onward

Expanded partnerships. MHBI's engagement with CIHP began in 2020 as a later phase of institutional development, not the origin of MHBI.

Partnerships

Built for collaboration.

MHBI's partnership approach is practical and community-facing: collaboration should improve access, strengthen prevention, support service delivery or generate useful learning.

PCRC, Mushin

MHBI collaborated with the Police Community Relations Committee in Mushin through a safety and security programme that included a community health services package.

Institutional track record

Community access as a platform.

MHBI's institutional journey includes early SHiPS and CRH engagement, followed by CIHP programme engagement from 2020, youth/OTZ programming and research-related community participation.

Archive

A visual record of community work.

Archive photographs are used as institutional history. They are not presented as 2026 outputs unless the relevant activity is documented as current-period work.

Light Up Mushin street soccer flyer

Light Up Mushin — Street Soccer

Community sponsorship listing.

OTZ youth peer leadership programme

OTZ Youth Engagement

Used with the participant's consent.

Ojuwoye Market health outreach

Health Outreach — Ojuwoye Market

Community health screening archive photograph.

PCRC Mushin health screening

Safety, Security & Community Health — Mushin

Community programme archive.

World AIDS Day team activity

World AIDS Day — MHBI Team Activity

Community mobilization, HIV prevention and engagement.

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