Achieving Healthcare Reform in Nigeria — Learning from PharmAccess’ Initiatives

Njide Ndili (Guest writer) Nigeria’s health indices remain an issue of concern. The life expectancy rate is one of the lowest in the world, maternal mortality rate is 512 deaths per 100,000 live births which remains one of the highest globally and non-communicable diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, cancer, and malnutrition, caused nearly a third […]

Tackling the Budget Utilisation Challenges in the Nigerian Health Sector

The Nigerian health sector is severely underfunded. Each budget year, the majority of health advocates lament the federal government’s inability to meet the Abuja Declaration’s target of allocating at least 15% of the country’s budget to the health sector. Although Nigeria has experienced a significant increase in funding allocation in the quest to improve the […]

Top Ten News Items on Health, 18 April 2024

C’ Rivers has 849 non-functional PHCs, commissioner reveals. Health workers’ capacity training will reduce migration – NPHCDA. NCDC convenes emergency meeting as unknown illness hits Zamfara. Federal Gov’t Seeks Collaboration To Eradicate AIDS By 2030. Climate Change: Nigeria Needs Action For Sustainable, Resilient Future – FG. UHC can be achieved using tax for health insurance […]

Gavi and UNICEF welcome approval of new oral cholera vaccine

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and UNICEF welcome the news that a new oral cholera vaccine (OCV), Euvichol-S, has now received WHO prequalification and can be made available to countries around the world. The prequalification of this new product will help EuBiologics, the manufacturer, produce more volumes of vaccine, faster, and at a lower cost – […]

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